Budget watch

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

Arlington: $414 to Wheatland Fire Equipment of Wheatland, Wyo., for equipment maintenance and repair.

$2,592 to Prothman Co. of Seattle for fire chief recruitment services.

$4,175 to Northwest Gardener of Snohomish for a maintenance contract for professional services.

$177 to Cascade Natural Gas for utilities.

Everett: $307 for the “Bugs Not Drugs” outdoor school program provided by the Parks and Recreation Department.

$27,212 to Petro Diamond Inc. for 11,300 gallons of unleaded gas for the city’s fleet. The city has its own fueling stations.

$445 to K&L Cleaning Inc. to clean windows on the Culmback Building on Colby Avenue.

Lake Stevens: $3,429 to Industrial Electric Co. of Everett for improvements on lift stations Nos. 2 and 8.

$500 to Login-acp.net of St. Paul, Minn., for the annual fee for the police department for an online information library.

$3,105 to O’Bunco Engineering of Bellevue for engineering services and a plan review.

$1,771 to Ruddell International of Seattle for police Tasers.

$355 to Sirchie Finger Print Laboratories Inc. of Youngsville, N.Y., for finger-printing equipment for the police department.

Marysville: $29,833 to Otak of Lake Oswego, Ore., for professional engineering services on the 152nd Street NE lift station and a second storm-water detention pond.

$39,708 to Murray, Smith &Associates Inc. of Portland, Ore., for ongoing design work on the Lakewood water main project.

$2,500 to the U.S. Postal Service in Marysville for mailing costs for the Marysville Messenger.

$1,695 to Transoft Solutions Inc. of Richmond, B.C., for traffic control software.

$2,640 to Verdicon Inc. of Los Angeles for fungicide for the city golf course.

Monroe: $8,652 to the state Auditor’s Office for the city’s 2005 audit.

$434 to Brat Wear of Fife for a K-9 handler jumpsuit.

$92 to Collegiate Pacific of Dallas for tennis court supplies at Lake Tye Park.

Snohomish: $382 to Copiers Northwest of Seattle for copier maintenance at City Hall.

$3,665 to Dell Marketing LP of Plano, Texas, for three replacement computers.

$266 to Safety &Supply Co. of Seattle for a safety vest.

$99 to Verizon Wireless Messaging Service of Albany, N.Y., for pager service in September.

Stanwood: $1,250 to Nanna’s Cleaning Services of Camano Island for janitorial service in October.

$2,238 to Ovenell Backhoe Service of Stanwood for digging out a drainage ditch at Larson Dam and for digging out a beaver dam.

$71,551 to RH2 Engineering of Bothell for engineering services for August and September.

$4,737 to Tetra Tech/KCM of Pasadena, Calif., for engineering services on the new wastewater treatment plant.