The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-11
SHOWS BIG CAIN
City Waterworks Department
Makes Good Record in 1921.
Increase in Revenue During
Year Was $5,741.41.
BALANCE ON HAND $1,429.65
Fuel Cost 11,91s.96 More Than
in 1920.
Construction Work Cost Total
of More Than $4,000.
BALANCE ON HAND S1,429.65


shows a gross gain of Is per cent in
gross receipts, for 1921, as against the
gross receipts of 1920.
The increase in revenue of the de-
partment, in excess of the expense,
as compared with the same figures in
| 1920, show a gain of $5,741.41. That
is-the revenue exceeded the expense
in 1920, by $61.S56.1S. and in 1921
the excess of revenue over expense
was $67.O97.59.
The gross revenues in 1921
amounted to $1s9, 4SS.5S. and in 1920,
to $173,173.67, an increase of $780,,
/ 264.91.
Expense Amounted to $132,S40
The expense in 1921 amounted to
i S132, $4,000, as against $111.817.49 in
| 1920, an increase of $20,523.50.
| Comparative figures taken from the
annual report for 1921 of Roy Hoover.
cashier of the city water department.
show that the meter rates during the
year amounted to $187, 365.53, or a
gain of $22.52S.51 over the revenue
from the same source in 1920.
The 1921 figures show a gain from
every source from which revenue was
derived, as compared to the returns
during 1920. The sale OF merchandise
netted So, 564.75i during 1921, a gain
! of 81 T97.18 over the sales of 1920.
| Special sales brought in $2,S27.53,
a gain of $1,574.75 over 1920. Con-
tracts for furnishing water, as for eS-
ample to Ringing Brothers circus,
netted the city $6S0.67 during 1921
s3S4.47 more than in 1920.
More Expense in 1921.
On two out of eight expense ac-
| counts, the expenditure during 1921
was less than in 1920. The city spent
| but $7373.10 for merchandise, dur
| ing 1921, which is $1,783.41 less than
was paid in 1920. Repairs during
| 1921 cost $S,680.44, or s2,241.35 less
| than the repair bill in 1920.
Other expenses were higher during
| the year just past Fuel cost $4O,-
| 960.05, or $11,918.96 more than it did
| in 1920. There was expended in wares
during the year $35,233.71, or ST.
| 521.04 more than was spent in 1920
/ Salaries also showed an increase of
| $1,3S2 over 1920.
| The financial statement of the city
waterworks department of Topeka for
| 1921 shows that since. 1918-ll1ree
| department have been increased by
So 3s640.90. The total receipts of the
/ department for the year 1891
amounted to ss19s,43s.5s In 1918
| they were $116, 597.6S.
! The disbursements of the depart
ment for operating expenses during
1921 came to s173.1SS.56, as against
| operating disbursements of S127-
| 740.73 during 1918.
Much Construction Work.
The next largest single item of dis
| bursement during 1921 was for con-
/ struction work-not listed in connec-
| ton with the new plant, but routine
| construction work of the department
which amounted to $4O,S47.57.
| More money was spent for fuel, in
| connection with the operating ex-
penses of the department during the
year, than for any other item. Fuel
during 1921 cost S4096O.05
Salaries amounted to s1O249.25
during the year, which was a less
amount than was paid out in salaries
in 191S-Sl0, 709.25. Wages in 1921
amounted to $35,233.71, and in 1918
to SIG, 416.51. The total amount ex-
pended in payment of personnel OF
the department in 1921 is thus s45,-
482.96, whereas it was $27,12576 IN
1918.
Meter rates-the monthly payment
of the consumers of city water-netted
the city water department $187,3S5.6S
| during 1921. In 1918 there was col
lected from the same source, s1O5..
l59.71, showing an increase for the
last year of $S2,2O592 from this
source, IN the three-year- period
me city waterworks department
turned over TO the city treasurer dur
1921, S199,702.18 in cash. The da-
partment retained a cash balance al
but S25. The cash balance when the
year 1921 began. was $2886O.
Balance of $1,429.65.
There were received into the gen.
eral fund of the department durina
the year appropriations amounting t6
$4,000. and receipts from the cond,ict
of the business of the departmen,
amounting to $199,7O21S. The yea,
started with a balance of $1O,612.S5
IN this fund. The balance at the end
OF the year was $1,429.65, after war.
rants to the amount of s1731SS.
nad been drawn against It, and there
mad been transferred to the sinkina
fund $4,000.
An analysis of the expenditures 10,
new construction during the vea1
shows that $15,O92.52 was spent or
the water supply, and $2O,6f0.54 or
new pipe lines.
A similar analysis of the repair ac.
count shows that the pipe lines were
the heaviest expense in that account
as wen. The repair OF pipe line.
cost $5,77O.45 during the year.
The figures given were taken from
the annual report of Wilbur A. Stan.
1ieId, city commissioner of water ana
electric lights, to the mayor and city
: commission, and from the annual fl.
nancial statement of Roy Hoover
cashier of the department