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Published November 14, 2008 10:14 am -

Hulbert councilors keeping eyes on budget


By JOSH NEWTON
Staff Writer

TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS

HULBERT – City councilors here are keeping their eyes on the year’s budget, looking for ways to save money and get through the year as planned.

“If everything went right, we’d be fine,” said Councilman George Truitt. “But everything hasn’t been fine.”

Clerk Leona Welch said the biggest expense is the water plant.

Mayor Ed Beckham said that because the plant had been over-budgeted, the city hasn’t been able to receive matching grant funds it had originally counted on.

But Welch said the city’s budget is actually OK at this point.

“Revenue will start picking up in two months,” she said.

Councilors agreed to keep an eye on the budget and look at making amendments when they decide if they need to transfer more money from Hulbert Public Works Authority to the city.

“We’re spending a lot,” said Truitt, “but nothing that’s frivolous.”

Beckham noted that spending has gone down, but income has as well.

Thursday night’s agenda also called for discussion with engineer Ralph Handlin concerning gas rates and possible increase for utilities, and an RDA loan consolidation/remortgage, but Handlin did not attend. The matters were tabled until the next monthly meeting.

Christmas bonuses were approved for HPWA and city employees.

The agenda also called for Vivian Lamb to discuss the police department with the city’s officials, but Lamb did not show up for the meeting.

Beckham said a woman called him and offered to help with cleaning duties at the Hulbert Community Library following an article that ran in the Daily Press last month.

In October, councilors expressed the need to conserve as much energy as possible in the new library building, especially when it isn’t in use -- and that a lengthy list of extra janitorial duties supplied by EODLS wouldn’t be likely with a tightening budget.

Beckham had sent a letter to the Eastern Oklahoma District Library System highlighting a potential need to cut back on janitorial services, and the EODLS responded that, if services were discontinued by the city, the library would have to be closed.



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