Budget Watch

Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Here’s how some of your taxes were spent during recent city council and school board actions.

Everett: $3,488 to Edmonds Charter of Edmonds for a senior center bus trip to Coos Bay, Ore.

$1,334 to J.D. Pence Aquatic Supply Inc. of Forest Grove, Ore., for goggles and swimwear for the parks department.

$1,942 to Sharp Electronics Corp. of Pittsburgh for monthly rent of a copier for the public works department.

$11,333 to the Downtown Everett Business Association for the monthly management fee for the EverPark garage.

$29 to Hatzoff Productions of Seattle for the video “Life on the Edge: A Guide to Pacific Coastal Habitats,” for Everett Public Utilities.

Lake Stevens: $30,691 to the Lake Stevens Sewer District for sewer services.

$800 to the U.S. Postal Service for postage.

$8,402 to the city of Marysville for housing prisoners in the jail.

$1,875 to the state Department of Corrections for work crews.

$1,874 to the Lake Stevens School District for fuel.

Marysville:$93,388 to the state Department of Revenue for sales taxes in June.

$921,534 to Imco General Construction Inc. of Bellingham for ongoing work on the city’s wastewater treatment plant upgrade.

$4,989 to Les Schwab Tire Center of Marysville for tires and alignments.

$15,461 to Service Electric Co. of Snohomish for ongoing work on the Strawberry Fields project.

$275,634 to Premium Construction of Everett for ongoing work on Ebey Slough Waterfront Park.

Mukilteo: $418,361 to Road Construction N.W. Inc. of Renton for drainage improvements.

$110,151 to Wilder Construction Co. Inc. of Everett for pavement repairs.

Monroe: $336 for Chemsearch of Dallas for bee spray.

$1,861for Nextel Communications of Reston, Va., for cellphones.

$7,871 for Evergreen District Court of Monroe for June court filling fees. The city must pay a fee for every court case it files.

Snohomish:$7,925 for SNOPAC, a 911 dispatch center in Snohomish County, for services in July.

$917 for Vance Odell, one of the three public defenders with whom the city has a contract, for public defender fees in June.