1928-1929 Annual Budget - i
TABLE OF CQQTENTS
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Official Directory 2-3
Letter of Transmittal 4-9
Organization Chart 10
Balance Sheet 12-14
Statement of Revenue Receipts 15
Division of Tax Dollar 16
Detail Cost of Government 17
What The City Tax Dollar Has Been Spent For 18
Tax Rate and Assessed Valuation 19
Trend of Governmental Cost 20
Cost of Waterworks Operation and Improvement 21
Water Sales and Income 21
Summary of Personnel by DepeEr tm ents 22-24
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
THE BOARD OF AID ERMEN
J. W. Akin, Maya• C. E. McCutchen
J. H. Patton J. M. Spoonts
J. W. Hunt R. 0. Harvey
W. S. Abbott, W. L. Bass„
City Treasurer Judge, Corp oration Court
EXECUTIVE BOARD KEMP PUBLIC LIBRARY
Mrs. J. A. Kemp, Chairman J. A. Kemp
Mrs. J. A. Richolt W. M. Priddy
Mrs.. C. W. Snider Geo. W. Thorburn
Mrs. J. T. Montgomery Mrs. M. M. Addi cks
Mrs C. R. Hartsook W. D. Cline
EXECUTIVE BOARD WICHITA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Dr. C. R. Hartsook, Chairman Dr. Wallace Martin
H. L. Hunter, Secretary Mrs. Mamie Dale
J. C. Barnard
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OR REVIEW
A. L. Huey, Chairman Ed Howard
Mack Thomas
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BOARD OF HEALTH
Dr. R. L. Hargrave, Chairman Dr. C. W. Stevenson
Wiley Robertson Dr. H. D. Fillmore
MOTION PICTURE BOARD OF CENSORS
Mrs. C. R. Hartsook, Chairman W. L. Robertson
Mrs. M. M. Addieks
BOARD OF APPEALS - MOTION PICTURE CENSORS
Mrs. Fred Barron Mrs. Chas. Pogenpohl
Mrs. B. L. Fain Mrs. Bernard Martin
Mrs. C. Joline Mrs. T. B. Crouch
Mrs. Abe Marcus
ELECTRICAL ADVISORY BOARD
Claud Fooshes A. H. Howard
E. C. Dosch J. W. Lyle
Herbert Voeleker
PLUMBERS EXAMINING BOARD
F. M. Rugeley Fred Nunn
Dr. H. D. Fillmore W. V. Baldridge
Lon Steelman
1 xi CUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
G. D. Fairtrace, City Manager
W. E. McBroom, City Clerk
Thelbert Martin, City Attorney
F. M. Rugeley, City Engineer
J. L. McClure, Fire Chief
F. L. Burns, Chief of Police
Dr. H. D. Fillmore, Health Director
W. R. Hyer, Assessor and Collector
W. B. Ward, Purchasing Agent
G. S. Dobson, Street Superintendent
C. C. Bunnenberg, Park Superintendent
A. H. Douglass, Waterworks Manager
Miss Lucia F. Powell, Librarian
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THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS
WICHITA. FALLS, TEXAS
The Honorable Mayor and
Board of Alder men,
City of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Gentlemen:
The following pages give a brief record of the
activities of the City Government during the fiscal year
April 1, 1928, to March 31, 1929, and contain suggestions
for future improvements to the Public Service.
Our past year has been one of financial adjustment
and a reorganization of the administrative service to con-
form to the more modern and efficient method of operation.
FINANCE
The most important problem at the beginning of
the year was the disposition to be made of $347,331.92 in
floating debt. This was disposed of by the issue at
$250,000 in Refunding Bonds maturing serially over a period
of 25 years and the payment of the balance of $97,331.92
out of the operating revenues of the current year.
By careful planning and economical operation, we
have been able to, in addition to paying off the floating
debt, increase our working cash balance from $51,625.69 at
the beginning of the year to $127,558.44 at the end of the
fiscal year. This has been accomplished without any in-
crease in the tax rate.
IMPROVEMENTS
On account of the financial condition of the City
Treasury, we have been unable to make any important improve-
ments, except such minor items as:
1. New Water Lines and Equipment $222,680.21
2. Books for Kemp Library 3,813.12
3. Equipment for Fire, Police,
Park Depts, Auditorium and
Finance Offices 7,084.78
Total $33,578.T1
REORGANIZATION
Reorganization has been accomplished; a Purchasing
Department installed and the placing at the Street, Sewer
and Building Inspection Divisions in the Engineering Depart-
ment. The Health and Sanitation Department has been placed
in charge of the City Physician. This has been done through
the adoption at an Administrative Code required by the City
Charter. All changes effected have increased the efficiency
of the administrative service.
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The Municipal Service is now divided into the fol-
lcw ing units:
1. General Administration and Finance
2. Protection to Persons and Property
3. Health and Sanitation
4. Charities, Hospital aid Corrections
5. Streets and Bridges
6. Education
7. Parks and Cemeteries
8. Waterworks
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AN) FINANCE
This service is rendered through the operation of
the Board of Aldermen, City Manager, City Clerk, City Attorney,
Engineer, Tax Assessor and Collector, Treasurer, Purchasing
and Public Building Operation and The Corporation, Court. The
cost of Administrative overhead during the past year amounted
to $93,706.34 cr 9.4% of total expenditure. Debt Service or
payment of interest and principal on fixed debt is hani led by
the Accounting Department and amounted to $292 028.79;
$75,000.00 of which was used to retire bonds; $19,305.00 to
retire General Fund Warrants and $197,723.79 to pay interest
on the fixed debt. Debt payments cost the taxpayers 30.8
cents out of each dollar spent during the year.
PROTECTION TO PERSONS & PROPEI 'Y
This service includes the Police, Fire and Build-
ing Inspection Divisions. It was operated at a cost of
$200,215.88 or 21.6% of total expenditures during the past
year. The cost in the previous year was $209,154.19.
A fair standard of equipment aid efficient per-
sonnel has been maintained in this important unit of the
public service.
The Fire Department is divided into six companies
and, with the exception of one, is well equipped. Fire Com-
pany No. 3 should have a new building. Twelve pieces of
fire fighting apparatus and a Gamewell Alarm System consti-
tute the major portion of equipment.
An identification bureau and a good system of
records is maintained in the Police Department.
Total men used in this division last year was 106,
divided: Police 40, Fire 63, Building Inspection 3.
We expect to increase the efficiency of this divi-
sion by the addition of men and equipment as fast as finan-
cial conditions will permit.
HEALTH AND SANITATION
This servi ce is divided into three major working
units, via:
(a) Conservation of Health
(b) Sanitation or Promotion of Cleanliness
(c) Public Welfare
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In the conservation of health, our most important
work is in food and milk inspection and control. This re-
quires the services of four trained workers, two of which
are graduate veternarians. All Federal and State laws re-
lating to the inspection of food and dairy products are
rigidly enforced. A very marked improvement in this ser-
vice was made in the past year. The public health has been
further conserved by the strict enforcement of quarantine
regulations, the abatement of nuisances, the cutting of
weeds, and inspection and grading of all eating establish-
ments.
The infant mortality rate is a fair barometer of
the efficiency of the Health Department in any city. The
number of infant deaths from all causes in 1927 was 124,
and in the calendar year 1928 it was 101. Infants for the
purpose of this report are defined as babies up to and in-
cluding one year of age. Total deaths from all causes in
1927 was 651 and in 1928 was 697.
Sanitation or Promotion of Cleanliness is main-
tained through the operation of the Sanitary Sewers and Disposal
Plant; the collection of garbage, trash and the enforcement
of sanitary sewer connections. Our investment in sanitary
sewe rs and disposal plant is $1,434,105.19, and the cost of
maintenance and disposal last year was $21,564.27 and in
the previous year it amounted to $23,097.04.
Residences served by the City Scavenger in 1926
numbered 876; in 1927, 584; and in 1928, 523, indicating a
gradual decrease in this menace to the public health, through
the activities of the sanitary inspect ion service.
Continued rigid enforcement of our sanitary ordi-
nances and the financing of municipal operation of the gar-
bage and trash collection service are the future needs for
the betterment of Health Service. It is also our plan to
enlarge and repair the city incinerator in order to more
efficiently dispose of all vegetable matter collected.
Total cost of sanitary inspection service in the
past year was $23,002.75 as compared to $26,571.39 for the
previous year.
CHARITIES, HOSPITALS & CORRECTIONS
The major portion of our public welfare service is
rendered through the joint operation of the Wichita General
Hospital by the City and County. Our portion of the cost of
operating this institution for the benefit of the indigent
sick was $17,834.35 for the past year against $20,270.10
for the previous year. This institution is under the effi-
cient management of a Board of Managers appointed by the
Board of Aldermen and Commissioners Court. Other service
performed in this division is medical service rendered by
the City Physician, who is also the Director of Public Health,
and drugs and supplies furnished at a total annual cost of
$6,852.36. Medical service, drugs and supplies furnished the
indigent sick in the previous year amounted to $7,734.28.
The Department works in close cooperation with Family Relief
Association of the Community Chest.
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STREETS AND BRIDGES
The maintenance of our 250 miles of streets and
230 miles of alleys has 'been carried on through the opera-
tion of the Street Department airing the past year with a
working force of 26 men. Seven men are used in the street
cleaning division who, with the use of two motor pick-up
sweepers, clean our 85.3 miles of pavement. Total cost of
cleaning, maintaining and lighting the streets amounted to
$82,457.76 last year as compared to $86,923.25 for the pre-
vious year. Pavement patched amounted to 2,177 square
yards at a co st of $3,708.54.
Additional storm sewers, repaving aid widening of
a large portion of Tenth Street and repaving of Brook Street
from Eleventh to Collins Avenue are the most urgent needs in
this division. There are a number of connecting blocks of
pavement on our main thoroughfares that should be construct-
ed as well as a paved connection from Seymour Road to Harri-
son Street. Reconstruction of a portion of North Filmare
and Elizabeth Street pavement is also highly desirable.
Patching of paved thoroughfares and continuous grading of
dirt streets and alleys will be carried forward until
finances will permit additional pavement construction.
EDUCATION
This service is rendered through the operation of
the Kemp Public Library by an Executive Board created by the
adoption of Ordinance No. 946. The cost, together with new
books, was $13,466.18 during the past year as compared to
$13,649.26 for the previous year. Books circulated in the
year ended March 31, 1929, totaled 141,471. Two branches off"
the Library are now in operation. One is located on Grant
Street on the West Side, and the other is on Jefferson
Street on- the North Side of our City. One thousand books
from this institution are circulated through the public
schools.
Funds for the construction of branch buildings and
for additional new books, together with a trained assistant
for the children's department, are the most urgent needs of
our library system.
PARKS MD CEMETERIES
This service is operated through the maintenance of
our public parks, playgrounds, zoo ani golf course. River-
side Cemetery is maintained and a new cemetery of 80 acres
was opened during the past year. A recreation program con-
sisting oP free picture shows, vaudeville and amateur base-
ball was put on during the summer vacation season. The total
cost of park and cemetery service was $60,116 .26 last year as
compared to $7 2,96 6.66 for the previous year.
A wading pool was constructed in Scotland Park by
the Kiwanis Club during the past year.
A zoo building for housing at animals in Scotland
Park is the most urgent need at this time. Continued im-
provement of all our parks, playgrounds and the enlargement
of the recreation program are other needed improvements in
the park system.
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WATERWORKS
Our waterworks was operated during the past year at
a cost of $170,210.56, with water sales running 1,010,599,286
gallons . A condensed statement showing the results of muni-
cipal ownership follows:
Net Income $251,834.45
Expense:
Operating & Maintenance $92,443.99
Interest on Debt 50,805.28
Principal at Debt 23,000.00
Miscellaneous Expense 3,961.29
Depr eciat ion 36,169.72.
Taxes Remitted account of
Municipal Ownership 38,628,90 245,009.18
Net Profit 6,825.27
The Water Tower on the North Side was placed in
• operation during the year and a considerable saving in pump-
ing cost was effected. Plans and specifications have been
prepared by the consulting engineers for a complete new
filtration and pumping plant.
As soon as finances can be arranged, we should go
forward with plans for the improvements recommended in the
report of Black & Veatch, Consulting Engineers, which in-
clude the following items:
1. Construct a law water dam at the head, and a
shallow canal around Lake Wichita to protect
it from salt water from Archer County oil field
and seepage from the irrigation project.
2. Raise the spillway at Lake Wichita to increase
storage of soft water .
3. Construct a new filtration and pumping plant
to insure an adequate supply of clean pure
water at all times.
4. Construct a flume from Lake Wichita to the
pumping plant to eliminate polution from the
open ditch and irrigation from our water supply.
5. Construct additional trunk mains necessary to
increase the supply in the most remote sections
of the City.
The construction of these improvements would save
our water consumers considerable money now used in the pur-
chase of soap and the repair of plumbing equipment.
In summarizing our accomplishments during the past
year, we believe the following are worthy of mention:
1. Refinancing the floating debt.
2. Payment of all outstanding obligations carri ed
over from previous year.
3. Installation of a centralized purchasing bureau.
4. Compiling and printing of ordinances, properly
indexed, in book form.
5. Improvement of health conditions by strict en-
forcement of sanitary code.
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8. Increased efficiency of the sewage disposal
plant.
7. Twenty five additional street lights added.
8. Street pavement repair ed.
9. Operating and maintenance expenses reduced
with increase in quality of service as follows:
General Expense $17,500.45
Waterworks 22,624.72
Total $40,125.18
10. Authorized to spend by budget appropriations for
year the sum of $921,557.88
Amount spent 873,604.80
11. Adoption of Administrative Code.
SUMMARY OF NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS
1. Additional equipment and men in police and fire service.
2. Additional traffic control equipment.
3. One additional building for Fire Company No. 3.
4. Municipal collection of trash ani garbage.
5. Improvement of garbage disposal by increasing capacity
of inci nerator.
6. Continued enforcement of sewer connection ordinance.
7. Street widening and reconstruction.
8. Additional storm sewers.
9. Extension and improvement of Kemp Public Library.
10. Zoo building.
11. Additional wading pools and recreational facilities in
the parks.
12. Improvements to waterworks system.
In closing, I wish to state that the record of pro-
gress herein stated has been accomplished only through the
splendid cooperation of your Honorable Body, the citizenship
in general and the loyalty of city employees, who, as a whole,
have given their best efforts to the service.
Respectf ly mined,
CITY MANAGER
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THE CITY'S PRIITIPAL PROPERTIES
THE CITY NOW HAS:
111.61 miles sanitary sewer
351 acres of parks and playgrounds
11076 water meters in service
85.3 miles of paved streets and alleys
7.6 miles of storm sewer
87.7 miles of cast iron water mains
360 fire plugs in service
2 cemeteries of approximately 120 acres
A municipal golf course
A municipal zoo
A modern sewage disposal plant
A Gamewell fire alarm system of 8 circuits and 130 boxes
A whiteway lighting system of 346 standards
A municipal airport
A modern well equipped auditorium and administration building
Municipal properties valued at $10,214,964.18
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THE CITY'S BALANCE SHEET
AT MARCH 31, 1929.
Description March 31, 1929 March 31, 1928
The City owes to Creditors:
1. Notes and Warrants outstanding
to finance emergency projects,
such as auditorium equipment
and building, water mains aid
fire equipment $ 13,058.70 $174,334.50
2. Floating Warrants covering street
paving, general expense, street,
park, library, sewer maintenance,
water tower and expense 32.261.66 172,997.4E
3. Total Floating Debt 45,320.36 347,331.92
To Meet These Demands the City Has:
1. Cash on Hand in Water Department 297.82 3,118.08
2. Cash in Treasury 172,580.98 48.507.61
3. Unencumbered Cash Balance 127,558.44 295,706.23
4. Taxes due from taxpayers which are
yet unpaid, and if paid would be
placed in the operating funds 129,951.30 113,201.83
5. Miscellaneous revenue in course
of collection 28,593.00 31,463.53
6. Total Accounts Receivable 158,544050 144,665.36
7. This leaves a working surplus of 286,102.74 151,040.87
Other Assets:
8. Cash working funds held by
collecting departments for
making charge and payment of
emergency items 800.00 600.00
9. American Refining Properti es
Debt Certificate 216.84 -
10 Investment in Paving Certificate 1,142.31 1,142.31
11 Total Current Fund Surplus 288,261.89 149,298.56
Fixed Assets: (Cost value less
depreciation of property owned)
1. Street pavement 5,045,193.65 5,298,108.97
2. Sewer lines 1,134,460.02 1,156,828.95
3. Water plant 1,720,665.49 1,860,753.30
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BALANCE SHEET (Cont'd)
Description March 31, 1929 March 31, 1928
4. Park land, buildings & equipment $738,433.10 $837,106.35
5. Fire Dept buildings & equipment 194,829.75 235,693.40
6. Memorial Auditorium 535,035.74 577,000.85
7. Sewerage treatment works 27 4,261.77 306,223.75
8. Street Dept buildings & equipment 152,351.94 163,291.25
9. General Hospital & Nurses Hone
(one-half interest) 110,659.49 108,726.16
10 Unsold lots Riverside Cemetery
and new cemetery land 127,117.12 95,072.00
11 Central Police & Fire Station 85,530.00 86,605.00
12 Incinerator & sanitary equipment 21,926.05 29,313.82
13 Kemp Public Library 76,287.50 71,797.75
14 Police Department equipment 7,230.85 9,361.35
15 Office equipment 7,981.71 5,826.85
16 Total Property Owned 10,214,964.18 10,841,709.71
Fixed Liabilities (What we owe
on property owned)
17 Sanitary Sewer Bonds 1,029,000.00 1,053,000.00
18 Street Improvement Bonds 623,000.00 679,500.00
19 Waterworks Bonds 932,000.00 940,000.00
20 Storm Sewer Bonds 207,000.00 212,000.00
21 Memorial Auditorium Bonds 491,000.00 496,000.00
22 Fire Station Bonds 69,000.00 74,500.00
23 General Hospital Bonds 70,000.00 78,000.00
24 Park & Cemetery Bonds 40,500.00 60,500.00
25 Incinerator Bonds 18,000.00 19,000.00
26 Refunding Gen'l Improvement Bonds 308,000.00 •
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27 Total Bonded Debt 3,787,500.00 3,612,500.00
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BALANCE SHEET (Cont'd)
Description March 31, 1929 March 31, 1928
Funded Debt
28 1922 Overdraft Warrants $03,000.00 $110,000.00
29 Street Improvement Warrants 34,000.00 39,000.00
30 Park Improvement Warrants 21,000.00 30,330.64
31 Highland Heights Sewer Warrants 11,340.00 13,440.00
32 Highland Heights Water Warrants 15,660.00 18,560.00
33 Total Warrant Debt 165,000.00 211,330.64
34 Total Funded Debt 3,952,500.00 3,823,830.64
Taxes assessed and cash in Treasury
to pay interest and principal of
fixed debt:
35 Unpaid taxes due Interest and
Sinking Fund 72,182.32 62,878.21
38 Interest & Sinking Fund cash
and Securities on Hand 248,925.05 255,021.88
37 Net Debt 3,631,392.63 3,507,930.55
38 Property surplus - Difference
between Net Debt and Value of
Property Owned 6,583,571.55 7,333,779.16
The decrease of $754,207.61 in
Property Surplus is due to
natural depreciation deducted
from Value of Property in
taking annual inventory.
Memorandum & Suspense Accounts
1. Engineering Services on proposed
waterworks improvements 20,660.06 10,117.60
2. Unmatured Sewer Line Contracts 24,972.48 16,964.16
3. Unmatured Water Line Contracts 82,456.79 53,513.47
4. Water Consumers Deposits 28,702.10 28,204.05
5. Unclaimed Pound Receipts 141.80 137,30.
6. Total Memorandum and Suspense
Accounts 156,933.23 108,936.58
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STATEkENT OF REVENUE
:SHOWING SOURCES FROM WHICH THE CITY GOVERMENT RECEIVED ITS INCOME
Per Fiscal Year Per Fiscal Yeer
Source Cent Mar. 31, 1929 Cent Mar. 31, 1928
Occupation Taxes 00.3 $3,902.00 00.1 $1,140.50
Sanitary Service 00.1 1,146.22 00.2 1,848.12
Business Licenses 00.2 2,080.05 00.3 2,820.67
Library Fees 00.2 2,211.87 - -
Excavation and Engineering
Permits 00.1 1,265.00 00.3 3,005.24
Building Permits 00.2 1,965.00 00.3 3,133.50
Electrical Inspection Fees 00.2 1,781.83 00.3 3,455.95
Plumbing Inspection Fees 00.2 1,724.00 00.3 3,477.75
Penalty & Interest on Taxes 01.2 13,170.16 00.8 8,939.58
Golf Course Greens Fees 00.8 8,548.17 00.9 9,374.68
Cemetery Lot Sales & Service 00.6 7,189.75 00.9 9,800.50
Auditorium Rental and
Miscellaneous 01.1 11,917.59 01.1 11,407.62
Corporation Court Finea 02.9 32,381.00 02.7 28,571.00
Interest on Funds in Bank 00.7 8,046.00 01.8 19,233.21
Sewer Rentals 03.7 40,336.91 04.2 44,557.12
Delinquent Property Taxes 07.4 82,210.72 04.4 47,185.00
Current Property Taxes 55.7 613,928.24 55.0 585,236.00
Water Sales & Service 24.4 268,934,91 26.4 280.991.97
Total Revenue Receipts 100.0 1,102,738.89 100.0 1,064,178.41
NON-REVENUE RECEIPTS:
Whiteway Expense Recollected 2,439.50 2,922.20
Misol. Expense Recollected 9,391.43 5,756.91
Sale of Bonds & Accrued Int. 2,785.95 13,00O.00
Total Cash Dep. in Treasury 1,117,355.77 1,085,857.52
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TOTAL COST IN TOTAL COST IN
COST CENTS COST CENTS
DEBT PAYMENTS 284,288.64 30.0 256159.84 24.3
FIRE,POLICE Sc BUILDING INSPECTION 200 215.88 21.6 209 154.19 20.1
WATERWORKS 145 100.21 15.3 243 174.55 23.2
STREETS 82 457.76 8 7 86 923.25 8.3
PARKS 60 11 6.26 6.3 72 966.66 7.0
HEALTH 44 567.02 4.7 49 668.43 4.7
PUBLIC WELFARE 24 686.51 26 28 004.38 2.7
LIBRARY 13 466.18 14 13 649.26 1.4
ADMINISTRATION 93 706.34 9.4 88 649.56 8.3
TOTAL 4948 604.80 100.0i 048 350.12 100.0
EXPENSE RECOLLECTED 7 670.08 808417
COURT COSTS 897.60 741.52
PETTY CASH FOR LIBRARY 200.00
IMPROVEMENT BOND MONEY 644535.82
WARRANTS ISSUED 957 372.48 , #I 701 711 .63
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DETAIL COST OF MUNICIPAL GOVERMENT IN WID HITA FAITS
Fiscal Year Fiscal Year
Description of Service 1928-1929 1927-1928
Fire Department 8110,182.34 $117,055.96
Police Department 82,239.39 81,738.55
Street Cleaning and Maintenance 71,098.18 75,223.02
Street Lighting 11,359.58 11,700.23
Parks and Recreation 60,116.26 72,966.66
Administration - General 27,077.65 25,491.15
Interest and Principal - Time Warrants 28,20 9.39 24,953.50
Auditorium - Maintenance and Interest- 25,263.51 12,853.87
Public Health and Sanitation 23,O02.75 26,571.39
Sewer Maintenance 10,712.76 14,317.33
1 Sewerage Treatment Works Operation 10,851.51 8,779.71
Engineering Department 14,606.52 22,423.83
City Clerk and Accounting Department 12,734.38 12,720.26
Tax Assessor mid Collector 13,671.60 12,474.81
General Hospital 17,834.15 20,270.10
City Physician - Drugs and Supplies 6,852.36 7,734.28
Kemp Public Library 13,466.18 13,649.26
Building Inspection 2,419.09 2,587.55
Plumbing Inspection 2,658.09 4,683.30
Electrical Inspection 2,716.97 3,088.83
Old City Hall - 2,685.64
Airport Maintenance ' 552.88 -
Total Cost of Operation & Minor Improvements 547,425.34 573,969.23
Interest on Bonded Debt 181,079.25 183,206.34
Principal of Bonded Debt 75,000.00 51,000.00
Disbursements Recollected-Credited to Expense 7,670.08 8,084.17
Court Costs Collected for District Clerk 897.60 741.52
Petty Cash Fund for Librarian 209,00 -
Total - Exclusive of Water Department
and Major In rov-ementa 812,272,27 817,001.26
Major Improvements:
Auditorium Construction - 420,193.45
New Sewer Lines - 112,784.16
Street Improvements - 97,558.21
Land for New Cemetery - 14,000,00
Total Major Improvements Exclusive
of Waterworks - 644,535.8E
Waterworks Operation:
Operating Expense 70,263.38 84,934.23
Maintenance Expense 22,180.61 29,074.12
Construction and Equipment 22,680.21 98,205.50
Engineering - Anticipated Improvements 10,542.46 -
Miscellaneous Expense 1,680.13 2,596.65
Interest on Construction Warrants 929.16 1,073.00
Principal of Construction Warrants 2,900.00 2,900.00
Notes Paid on Reimbursement Contracts 2,334.04
Consumers Deposits Returned 7,317.55 7,868.33
Transfers to Bond Sinking Fund 3,000.00 -
Mat er ial Added to Stores & Miscellaneous 1.272.67 13,522.72
Total Water Department 145,100.21 240,174.55
Total Vouchers Issued 957,372.48 1,701,711.63
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STATEMENT SHORING WHAT THE TAX DOLLAR HAS BEZN SPENT FOR
DURING THE PAST TW) YEARS
Fiscal Year Fiscal Year
Description 1928-1929 192 7-1928
Salaries and Wages $339,927 .65 $350,760 .47
Heat, Light, Power and Water 20,228.45 19,37 1.42
Special Services 5,075.00 2,349.54
Personal Injury Settlements 3,063.25 -
Transportation and Communication 7,072,54 8,737.25
Feeding Prisoners & Quarantine Charity 1,822.03 2,152.78
Printing, Postage and Stationary 3,717.87 4,123.00
Ordinary Supplies 25,504.81 37,906.22
Time Warrants Redeemed 35,600.00 42,376.66
Interest on Warrants & Temporary Loans 27,251.81 19,020.35
Wichita General Hospital-Charity Service 17,510.61 17,590.06
Repair Parts for Equipment 12,688.47 13,690.47
Material for Repairs 4,131.10 5,899.36
Miscellaneous Services 6,346.29 8,964.09
Insurance 8,222.31 5,990.92
Equipment Notes 8,152.66 22,251.94
New Equipment 10,897.90 6,804.04
New Buildings and Structures 7,785.67 634,547.63
Land - Building Sites and Cemetery 3,121.00 14,850.00
Building Repairs 440.14 324.55
Rent - 542,85
Refund of Receipts in Error 865.80 251.45
Interest on Bonded Debt 181,079.25 183,206.34
Principal of Bonded Debt 75,000.00 51,000.00
Disbursements Recollected 7,670.08 8,084.17
Court Costs Collected for District Clerk 897.60 741.52
Petty Cash Fund for Librarian 200.00 -
?'aterworke
Total Vouchers Issued 957,372.48 1,701,711.63
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COMPARISON OF TAX RATE AID ASSESSED VALUATION
FOR SEVEN YEARS
TAX RATE
Purpose for
Which Taxes
Were Levied 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
General Exp .50 .50i .49 .52 .55 1/3 .54 1/6 .55
Street Maint .12 .121 .12i .13i .13* .13 1/3 .13i
Park Maint. .111 .05 .04 .09- .11. .11 2/3 .11 2/3
Library .02 2/3 .02* .02* .02* .02 7/8 .02 5/6 .02 5/6
Debt Paymts .78 - .79-i .81* .52i .49 .58 .57
Total $1.55 1.50 1.50 1.30 1.30 1.40 1.40
BSESS 0e VALUATION
Value Total
Year Basis Assessed Value
1922 60% $34,792,200 $57,897,200
1923 60% 31,409,540 52,349,230
1924 60% 34,097,170 58,286,166
1925 66 2/3% 40,028,320 60,042,280
1926 66 2/3% 45,100,060 67,650,090
1927 66 2/3% 50,166,110 75,249,165
1928 66 2/3% 51.913.700 77,870,550
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STATEMENT SHOWING TREND OF GOVERNMENTiL COSTS.
For the first time in seven years, the cost of
city service has begun to show a decrease, as is shown by
the following figures, vtiich do not include the Water Depart-
ment - the city's only self supporting public utility. These
totals do not include payment of notes and funding warrants
which are charged to the fixed debt accounts.
Operating art
Year Mai nt enema a lmpro vet ent s
1922 $270,956.63 $106,689.38
1923 294,999.45 76,274.70'
1924 332,489.13 110,056.32
1925 398,446.64 222,609.70
1926 462,299.82 648,187.20
1927 490,744.55 675,017.39
1928 473,244.09 • 27,856.33
Total 2,723,180.31 1,866,671.02
DEBT EXPENSE FOR PAST SEVEN YEARS
Year Interest on Bonds Interest on Warrants ,
1922 $154,435.00 $24,15 3.03
1923 154,653.89 13,459.00
1924 149,122.20 13,963.75
1925 147,706.79 14,704.72
1926 149,899.45 12,383.75
1927 183,956.34 11,391.66
1928 181.Q%.9„Z5 9.642.28 ,
Total 1,120,852.92 99,698.19
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COST OF OPERATING OUR WATERWORKS DURIEG THE PAST SEVEN YEARS
Operating ani
Yes? L aintenan*a Imm vements
1922 $86,741.02 $84,939.49
1923 100,135.79 93,030.09
1924 84,197.49 194,967.32
1925 113,514.57 191,102.80
1926 130,779.77 100,154.43
1927 117,678.00 62,366.20
19-26, 92,4441A a2,68o,41
70.490,40 7498 r * .
WATER SALES FOR PAST SEVEN YEAPS
Years Gallons Sold Cost to Consumers
1922 661,144,241 $204,201.14
1923 722,759,908 210, 624.75
1924 1,096,639,250 250,951.91
1925 1,019,292,750 264,060.29
1926 1,026,972,000 274,951.33
1927 1,144,225,100 263,390.65
1928 1,010.5 99.286 249 z27 6.53
Total 6,681,632,535 1.717.456.63
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SUMMARY OF PERSONNEL
AT MARCH 31, 1929.
ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT
No. of
Men Description Rate Amount
1 Mayor 25.00 25.00
5 Aldermen 10.00 50.00
1 City Manager 833.33 833.33
1 Stenographer 150.00 150.00
1 City Attorney 250.00 250.00 if
1 Stenographer 75 .00 75.00
1 Judge Corporation Court 100.00 100.00
1 City Treasurer 10.00 10.00
12 Total Monthly Pay Roll $1,493.33
CITY MERE (Accounting)
1 City Clerk 400.00 400.00
1 Bookkeeper 200.00 200.00
1 Cashier & Voucher Clerk 185.00 185.00
1 Stenographer 125.00 125.00
4 Total Monthly Pay Roll $910.00
ENGINEERING DEPARIME NT
1 City Engineer 375.00 375.00
1 Assistant Engineer 200.00 200.00
1 Rodman 100.00 100.00
2 Inspectors 140.00 280.00
1 Stenographer 100.00 100.00
1 Electrical Inspector 200.00 200.00 .
1 Plumbing Inspector 200.00 200.00
1. Building Inspector 200.00 200.00
1 Sewer Superintendent 175 .00 175.00
10 Total Monthly Pay Roll $1,830.00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
1 City Physician & Director 300.00 300.00
1 Assistant Physician 100.00 100.00
1 Chief Inspector 275.00 275.00
1 Inspector 125.00 125.00
1 Quarantine Officer 150.00 150.00
2 Food Inspectors 125.00 250.00
1 Dairy Inspector 200.00 200.00
1 Stenographer 90.00 90.00
_.1 Scavenger 100.00 100.00
10 Total Monthly Pay Roll $1,590.00
PURCHASING AND AUDITORIUM
1 Purchasing Agt & Building Mgr 200.00 200.00
1 Night Man 110.00 110.00
1 Stenographer 80.00 80.00
1 P.B.X. Operator 60.00 60.00
1 Relief Operator 15.00 15.00
1 Maid 40.00 40.00
2 Janitors 80.00 160.00
1 Janitor 75.00 75.00
g $740.00
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TAX DEPARTMENT
No. of
Men Description Rater Amount
1 Assessor & Collector 295.00 275.00
1 Clerk 165.00 165.00
2 Clerks 150.00 300.00
1 Clerk 90.00 90.00
4 Deputies (Part Time) 150.00 600.00
9 Total Monthly Pay Roll (Maximum.) $1,430.00
WATER DEPARTMENT
1 Manager 375.00 375.00
1 Chief Clerk 240.00 240.00
1 Cashier 100.00 100.00
1 Bookkeeper 175.00 175.00
1 Adj. Clerk 200.00 200.00
1 Machin Operator 170.00 170.00
1 Machine Operator 160.00 160.00
1 Collector 100.00 100.00
1 Storekeeper 160.00 160,00
1 Superintendent 200.00 200.00
1 Valves & Fire Plugs 140.00 140.00
1 Meter Superintendent 200.00 200.00
1 Meter Reader 150.00 150.00
1 Meter Repairman 140.00 140.00
1 Meter Conn. & Dis. 150.00 150.00
1 Meter Foreman 150.00 150.00
1 Meter & Taps 130.00 130.00
1 Chief Operator 150.00 150.00
2 Operators 135.00 270.00
1 Operator 115.00 115.00
1 Mechanic 130.00 130.00
1 Gardner 100.00 100.00
1 Supt. Disposal Plant 150.00 150.00
2 Operators Disposal Plant 100.00 200.00
26 Total Monthly Pay Roll $4,055.00
PARKS AND CEMETERY
1 Superintendent 275.00 275.00
1 Zoo Keeper 150.00 150.00
1 Foreman-Sexton 125.00 125.00
2 Foremen 125 .00 250.00
1 Greens Man 115.00 115.00
1 Zoo Keeper 100.00 100.00
1 Collector 75.00 75.00
1 Stenographer 75.00 75.00
9 Total Monthly Pay Roll $1,165.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT
1 Chief 300.00 300,00
1 Captain 225.00 225.00
1 Traffic Captain 175.00 175.00
1 Sergeant & Clerk 165.00 165.00
1 Sergeant & Deputy 150.00 150.00
11 Plainclothes Men 150.00 1,650.00
1 Patrolman 140.00 140.00
6 Patrolmen 135.00 810.00
1 Jailer 135.00 135.00
1 Poundman 130.00 130.00
2 Night Watchmen 50.00 100.00
4 Motorcycle Police 170.00 680.00
9 Traffic Police 145.00 1,305.00
40 Total Monthly Pay Roll $5,965.00
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
No. of
lien Description Rate Amount
1 Chief 300.00 300.00
1 Assist ant Chief 225.00 225.00
2 District Chiefs 165.00 330.00
1 Mechanic 155.00 155.00
1 Inspector 150.00 150.00
4 Captains 150.00 600.00
5 Drivers 135.00 675.00
12 Assistant Drivers 130.00 1,560.00
1 Lineman 130 .00 130.00
28 Hos emen 120.00 3,360.00
7 Hos emen 105.00 735.00
63 Total Monthly Pay Roll $8,220.00
LIBRARY
1 Librarian 175.00 175.00
1 Asst. Librarian 123 .00 120.00
1 Asst. Librarian 85.00 85.00
1 Asst. Librarian 75.00 75.00
1 Asst. Librarian 16.00 16.00
2 Pages 9.75 19.50
1 Caretaker 50.00 50.00
8 Total Monthly Pay Roll $540.50
STREET DEPARTMENT
1 Street Superintendent 325.00 325.00
1 Mechanic 150.00 150.00
1 Timekeeper 150.00 150.00
1 Blacksmith 125.00 125.00
4 Total Monthly Pey Roll $750.00
SUMMARY
204 Monthly Employees - Monthly Cost $28,688.83
47 Day Laborers " " (Average) 4,628.00
DAY LABOR
Water Department 1 Man ® $5.00 per day
" " 8 Men 0 4.00 " "
Sewer Maintenance 3 " 0 3.50 " "
Perk Department 13 " 0 3.50 " "
Street Department 1 " 0 5.50 " "
" " 2 " 0 5.00 " "
" " 1 " 0 4.50 " "
" " 4 " 0 4.00 " "
" " 14 " 0 3.50 " "
Total 47 Men
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