Budget watch
Published 9:58 pm Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Here’s how some of your tax money was spent in recent city or county council actions.
Arlington: $5,565 to Arlington Hardware for supplies and repairs.
$5,295 to GeoTest Services of Arlington for Tveit Road repair work.
Edmonds: $69.26 to Aard Pest Control of Bothell for pest control services.
$10,000 to the Edmonds Center for the Arts for advertisements in the ECA’s 2009 season brochure.
Everett: $245,000 to HDR Engineering for extra work on a sewer-related project on Bond Street.
$75,000 to forester Mark Hitchcock of Bow in north Skagit County to help manage city forest land surrounding Chaplain Reservoir.
Lake Stevens: $10,379 to Marysville for housing prisoners in April.
$5,250 to Feldman and Lee of Lynnwood for public defender fees.
Marysville: $3,664 to Spacesaver Northwest of Seattle for shelving for records.
$102 to Northwest Cascade Inc. of Puyallup for Honey Bucket rental.
Monroe: $422 to West Monroe Shell &Car Wash for patrol vehicle washing from January to April.
$400 to Hageman Services Inc. for cleaning windows at City Hall.
$1,485 to CoastWide Laboratories of Seattle for latex gloves, buckets and trash can liners.
Mukilteo: $1,418.03 for tree removal to Kemp West Inc. of Snohomish.
$8,631.89 for lobbyist services provided by Washington Advocates, a Bellevue-based consulting company.
Snohomish: $1,404 to Everett for April animal impounds.
$190 to Day Wireless Sytems Inc. to replace a broken desktop microphone.
$550 to Safariland Training Group for two police officers to attend “less lethal” training.
Snohomish County: $13.8 million to Granite Construction Co. of Watsonville, Calif., for the Granite Falls Alternate Route project.
$2,615,439 to Tri-State Construction of Bellevue for improving Lakewood Road from East Lake Goodwin Road to Frank Waters Road.
$661,303.19 to Dennis R. Craig Construction of Redmond for a pedestrian project on Cascadian Way near Mill Creek.
$571,509.67 to Hisey Constriction, Inc., of Seattle to provide for the Cathcart screening and grit-removal facility.
$626,929.10 to Cemex of Monterrey, Mexico, for improving Harbour Pointe Boulevard in Mukilteo.
