Budget watch

Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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

Everett: $3,257 to Dell Marketing for flat-panel computer monitors.

$45,000 to Everett-based Pacific &Colby Building to settle a civil claim for damages caused by a sewer backup.

$11,885 to Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Conference of Mayors for 2007 membership dues.

Monroe: $67 to the state department of Corrections for city employee business cards.

$803 to Fire Protection Inc. of Mountlake Terrace for Lake Tye Park security alarm.

$84 to Monroe Glass for window screens.

Mukilteo: $150,000 to Otak, which has offices in Seattle, for preliminary design work to extend Harbour Reach Drive to Beverly Park Road.

$160,000 to W&H Pacific of Bothell to study the city’s options to annex surrounding areas.

Snohomish: $162 to Federal Express Corp. for mailing documents.

$99 to American Messaging of Carol Stream, Ill., for pagers.

$968 to the city of Everett for testing at the city’s wastewater treatment plant.