Budget Watch

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

Arlington: $1,010 to United Rentals of Arlington for lawn-mowing equipment and a mortar mixer.

$167 to Village Community Services of Arlington for roadside litter pickup in July.

$1,873 to Valley Electric of Bothell for rewiring, repairs and breaker testing.

Edmonds: $5,087 to owners of five parcels along 220th Street SW for right-of-way buyouts to widen and improve the street.

Everett: $1,272 to Martin Lumber and Hardware of Everett for hardware supplies for several city departments.

$173 to Ron May Towing and Recovery of Everett to have a car towed for the police department.

$85 to the Association of Washington Cities in Olympia for surveys for the police and fire departments.

$131 to Kelly’s Coast to Coast of Monroe for hoses, concrete mix and other supplies for the water filtration plant.

$1,233 to Clearview Glass Co. of Everett to install glass and repair chipped windows on three city vehicles.

Lake Stevens: $330 to the state Department of Corrections for work crews.

$550 to Auckland Enterprises of Snohomish for tree maintenance.

$540 to the city of Everett for animal shelter services.

$3,600 to the law offices of Keithly, Weed, Graafstra and Benson for legal services.

$2,167 to the Lake Stevens School District for fuel.

Lynnwood: $43,170 to Earthwork Enterprises of Mukilteo to repair and replace catch basins.

$1,804 for probation officer Regina Alexander-Mack to attend the National Conference on Domestic Violence in Anaheim, Calif.

$1,910 for five SWAT team members to attend the Best in the West SWAT Competition in Santa Clara, Calif., Sept. 22-25.

$8,270 to Snohomish County for two years to alter or remove beaver dams on Scriber Creek.

Marysville: $360,218 to Premium Construction of Everett for ongoing work on the Ebey Slough Waterfront Park.

$392 to All My Sons Moving and Storage of Kent for moving a safe at the public safety building.

$3,147 to Action Roofing of Marysville for a new roof coating at the Ken Baxter Senior-Community Center.

$909 to Foremost Promotions of Morristown, N.J., for safety-oriented litter bags and junior police badges.

$21,700 to Perteet Engineering Inc. of Everett for a traffic management plan.

Monroe: $1,332 for Cascade Machinery &Electric of Seattle for a pump for the wastewater treatment plant.

$1,053 for EntrancoEngineers Inc. of Bellevue for an intersection study.

$823 for Les Schwab Warehouse of Monroe for replacing tires for police patrol vehicles.

Snohomish: $29,017 for Earth Tech Inc. of Long Beach, Calif., for a study to create a new storm-water utility.

$2,442 for HWA GeoSciences Inc. of Lynnwood for Riverfront Trail construction testing.

$539 for Kesselring Gun Shop of Burlington for replacing police department pistols.

Stanwood: $432 to Nextel Communications of Reston, Va., for cellphones and accessories.

$136 to Chuck Knaus of Stanwood for plumbing services.

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