Budget Watch

Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, March 2, 2005

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

Arlington: $288 to American Water Works of Denver for dues, subscription and membership.

$3,930 to Arlington Hardware for 48 purchases, including operating supplies, equipment maintenance, repairs, office supplies, tools and clothing.

$216 to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway of Fort Worth, Texas, for a railroad crossing repair.

$5,436 to Jerry’s Bulldozing of Arlington for storm drainage work.

Everett: $253 to John Deere Landscapes Inc. of Everett for sprinkler supplies for the parks department.

Lake Stevens: $7,500 to HMS Inc. of North Carolina for an annual fee to pay for software technical support .

$3,680 to the Association of Washington Cities for 2005 service fee.

$15,220 to the Snohomish County Public Utility District to install water service and $5,445 to hook up electricity at the new police station.

$7,179 to Marysville for municipal court citations in December and January.

$150 to Everett for law enforcement training tuition for a police sergeant.

$94 to Frontier Village Mini Storage in Lake Stevens for storage rental for furniture for the new police department.

Lynnwood: $505 for a city staff member to attend the Pacific North Public Purchasing Association’s spring workshop in Richmond, B.C., April 20-22.

$1,742 for police officers Jason Valentine and Charles Freeman to attend the Texas Tactical Police Officers Association annual conference April 3-7 in San Antonio, Texas.

$1,572 for police narcotics Sgt. James Nelson and narcotics detective William Johnson to attend the Clandestine Lab Safety Certification March 13-19 in Sacramento, Calif.

Marysville: $5,334 to Robert Half Technology for temporary information technology assistance.

$50 to the Snohomish County Boundary Review Board as a filing fee for the Allen Creek Baptist Church annexation.

$1,103 to Carr’s Ace Hardware of Marysville for miscellaneous hardware supplies.

$1,199 to Everett for analysis of laboratory samples.

$1,072 to Marysville Printing for printing services.

$111 to Mayor Dennis Kendall for reimbursement of expenses incurred during a recent business trip to Washington, D.C.

Monroe: $1,700 to The Herald of Everett for advertisement of a campaign for the city’s parking and business improvement district.

$28,951 to ELPAC of Everett for electrical instrumentation equipment.

$19,052 to Jerry Chambers Chevrolet of Bellingham for a 2005 pickup truck at the wastewater treatment plant.

Snohomish: $282 to The Herald of Everett to advertise for an accounting manager job opening.

$10,784 to Snohomish County Fire District 3 for vehicle maintenance.

$1,282 to Office Depot, of Santa Ana, Calif., for office supplies.

Stanwood: $490 to the Puget Sound Regional Council for 2005 membership dues.

$10,980 to Huckell Weinman Associates of Kirkland for an economic impact study of big-box retailers in town.

$3,920 to Perteet Engineering of Everett for an update to the city’s inventory of arterial roads.

$5,157 to Weed, Graafstra and Benson of Snohomish for attorney fees in January.