Budget Watch

Published 10:46 pm Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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

Arlington: $174 to Shred-It of Renton to shred city documents.

$3,304 to Jenchem Inc. of Walnut Creek, Calif., for chemicals for the city’s water treatment plant.

$18,420 to Dwayne Lane’s Everett Dodge for a new 2007 Dodge Ram for the city’s parks department.

Edmonds: $41,000 to DynamicCity of Lindon, Utah, to study a business plan for a citywide broadband network.

Everett: $52,879 to Computer Discount Warehouse for Panasonic touch screen monitors.

$663 to Peggy Cornish for travel expenses to the American Waterworks Association Pacific Northwest Section conference in Kennewick on May 2-4.

$479 charge to a JP Morgan Chase credit card for cremation urns.

Lake Stevens: $22,484 to purchase a new John Deere commercial lawn mower for city parks and rights-of-way.

Monroe: $17,460 to Snohomish County Corrections of Everett for April jail billing.

$173 to Steuber Distributing Co. of Snohomish for ditch spraying.

$2,259 to Wayfarer Nursery of Monroe for flower baskets.

Snohomish: $1,937 to Jani King of Seattle for janitorial work.

$92,014 to Lynnwood Disposal Service of Bellevue for solid waste recycling in April.

$263 to Public Safety Testing Inc. of Lynnwood for quarterly subscription fees.