July 26, 2012 I The Lovell Chronicle I 19
BY DAVID PECK
The Lovell Town Coun-
cil in June passed a 2012-
13 fiscal year budget that
closely resembles last year's
budget for the fiscal year
that ended June 30.
Considering the bud-
get at the June 12 meeting,
the council passed the new
budget totaling $8,793,099,
down about $675,000
from last year's budget of
$9,467,494.
This year's budget pro-
cess took a lot of trimming
and tweaking, Town Clerk/
Treasurer Valerie Beal
said, because revenue re-
mained tight - oddly - be-
cause the town business
sector picked up, resulting
in more sales tax revenue.
That set of events led to the
town rising above the bot-
tom level of so-called "hard-
ship" funding from the
State of Wyoming based on
sales tax income.
"We ended up with less
funding coming in from the
state from supplemental
funding because sales tax
was up," Beal said. "Under
the formula we were always
on the bottom tier, but two
counties dropped into the
lowest tier and our sales
tax went up, which bumped
us up a tier and reduced our
supplemental funding."
The town budgeted
$372,302 last year for antici-
pated state sales tax income
but received $495,703. Be-
ing cautious, the town bud-
geted $445,000 for the new
fiscal year, an increase of
a little more than $70,000.
The town also budgeted
$310,356 in county option
sales tax last year and re-
' ceived $429,259, then bud-
geted $360,000 for 2012-13,
an increase of $50,000.
Budgeting about
$120,000 in additional
sales tax revenue for the
new fiscal year is offset by
the loss of the state sup-
plemental funding distri-
bution mentioned by Beal,
which at about $220,000 is
down about $177,000 from
last year's distribution of
$396,7OO.
Other sources of rev-
enue in the town general
fund are budgeted to be up
slightly from a year ago,
and the town is budget-
ing $175,000 to be taken
from reserves for a street
chip-sealing project, re-
sulting in budgeted rev-
enues in the general fund
totaling $1,979,803 - up
from last year's budget of
$1,923,092 but down from
last year's actual revenue of
$2,192,570.
"The council wanted to
be sure we could complete
the chip sealing," Beal said
in reference to the money
budgeted from reserves.
"They're still a little hesi-
tant to go fully up to what
we received this year (in
revenue)."
On the expenditures
side of the budget broken
down by department, Beal
said the administration
budget is up from $515,167
in 2011-12 to $635,853
in '12-13, mostly due to
$286,000 being transferred
to capital improvements
including a $100,000
down payment for a street
sweeper, with the town fi-
nancing the rest of the
purchase; $27,500 for the
Foster Gulch Golf Course,
down from $35,000 last
year; $28,000 for a new po-
lice vehicle; $5,000 for spe-
cial projects and $125,816
for the chip-sealing proj-
ect as the match for nearly
$250,000 in county consen-
sus grant money coming
from the State Loan and
Investment Board.
The chip-sealing project
is for streets north of Main
Street.
Beal said salaries in ad-
ministration are budgeted
to be down $55,000 because
of a new system she is us-
ing to better reflect actual
time spent on certain du-
ties, for instance transfer-
ring time spent on water
billing to the actual water
budget.
The new administra-
tion budget also includes
$1,800 in 2012 election ex-
penses paid to the coun-
ty, $2,500 in security im-
provements to the dispatch
center, $5,000 to help re-
model the emergency man-
agement building near the
annex, $70,000 for econom-
ic development including
$60,000 for Lovell Inc. and
$10,000 for a Planned Unit
Development plan for se-
nior housing and $22,500
for area promotion and de-
velopment: $2,500 to the
senior center, $3,000 to
the chamber of commerce,
$500 to the town website,
$1,500 for Main Street
flowers, $2,500 to Mustang
Days, $1,000 to the Friends
of Bighorn Lake, $7,500 to
the Lovell-Kane Museum,
$3,500 for preparation for
the sixth-cent sales tax
election and bonding and
$500 for miscellaneous.
Here's a look at oth-
er General Fund depart-
ments:
Police and fire --
$882,532, down from
$938,048 a year ago. The
budget includes $2,000
for investigation expense,
$3,950 for maintaining
the new RIMS dispatch-
ing software, $5,500 for
equipment and supplies
(down $700) and $7,200 for
equipment maintenance,
among various line items.
Fuel and service for police
vehicles is up $3,000 to
'$20,000, and salaries are
up $5,000 to $485,103. The
budget includes $12,500
for new equipment.
Street and alleys
-- $176,224, down from
$178,343 last year. Salaries
are steady, and the budget
includes $5,000 for equip-
ment maintenance, an in-
crease of $1,400 for vehicle
fuel and service, $5,000 to
repair a dump truck gear,
$7,000 for street repair and
$1,100 for equipment pur-
chases, down from $12,000
a year ago.
Mosquito control
-- $33,826, down from
$35,000 in 2011-12.
Parks and recre-
ation -- $213,909, down
from $219,245. The budget
includes $6,000 for a con-
tract to clean park facili-
ties and $9,800 in equip-
ment purchase including a
new mower and $1,800 for
three picnic tables.
Community center --
$22,623, up from $22,075 a
year ago.
Capital Improve-
ments budget for 2012-
13 is $1,037,621, up from
$843,341 a year ago and
includes $9,450 to wrap
up the Lovell Inc. build-
ing renovation project,
nearly $375,000 for the
street chip-sealing project,
$482,661 to demolish the
old hospital, $138,000 in
equipment purchases and
$5,000 for the heating sys-
tem at the animal control
shelter.
The Construction Ac-
count budget for the on-
going water and sewer
infrastructure project
was set at $4,395,396,
down from $5,336,657, and
includes $20,000 for le-
gal expenses related to the
lawsuits concerning the
North Phase of the project,
$1,028,667 for payments to
the USDA Rural Utilities
Service for the North and
Southeast phases, much
of which is still tied up in
litigation pending a final
settlement expected soon,
$916,740 from RUS for the
second half of the ongo-
ing South Phase, $964,506
from SLIB for the South
Phase, and the town's
match for the South Phase
of $599,600 and planning
and engineering for the fi-
nal Main Street Phase of
the project: $660,500 from
SLIB and $67,000 from the
Wyoming Water Develop-
ment Commission.
The revolving Commu-
nity Development Block
Grant budget remains the
same at $50,000, Beal said,
noting that the loan to the
Switchback Grill is just
about paid off.
The lodging tax bud-
get remains the same at
$7,500.
Reflecting the redistri-
bution of administrative
salary expenses that Beal
mentioned, the garbage
and sewer budgets are up
slightly in 2012-13. Gar-
bage is set at $309,277, up
from $278,754, and sew-
er is at $339,970, up from
$308,888 a year ago. The
water budget is $688,368,
down from $724,262 a year
ago, when the budget in-
cluded painting one of the
town water tanks.
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