Budget Watch

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

Everett: $25 to Advance Marking Systems of Seattle for nametags for the fire department.

$136 to Rinker Materials West LLC of Everett for asphalt material for the streets department.

$49 to United Parcel Service of Carol Stream, Ill., for shipping charges for various departments.

$214 to Baker and Taylor Entertainment of Chicago for DVDs and videos for the library.

Lake Stevens: $485 to Posey Trucking of Lake Stevens for crushed rock for the street department.

$595 to Pomeroy’s Inc. of Everett to repair a Corsica.

$11,307 to Perteet Engineering Inc. of Everett for ongoing work on transportation and traffic consulting.

$15,104 to the state treasurer for traffic fines.

$30,788 to the Lake Stevens Sewer District for sewer services.

Marysville: $19,078 to Entranco of Bellevue for ongoing work on the State Avenue improvement project.

$4,486 to Edge Analytical Inc. of Burlington for testing of water samples.

$1,595 to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., for police motorcycle instructor.

$12,670 to Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone of Seattle for ongoing engineering consulting work on the Ebey Waterfront Park.

$2,500 to Jones &Stokes Associates of Bellevue for stream typing.

Snohomish School District: $383,285 to Blue Bird and International for six new school buses.

$30,935 to Dell Computer Corp. for 11 desktop computers, seven laptops and nine scanners.

$1,400 to Gymnastics Plus for two months of instruction for 14 students in the Parent Partnership Program.

$11,378 to Overlake Hospital Medical Center for October costs of daily education program services for two special-needs students.

Monroe School District: $402,413 to Bryant Motors for two 84-passenger school buses.

Monroe: $17,113 to Waste Management of Woodinville for fall cleanup.

$28 to Chinook Lumber of Monroe for lumber for sidewalk forms.

$293 to Cadman Inc. of Monroe for a waterline.

Snohomish: $28 to H.B. Jaeger of Snohomish for a drainpipe.

$1,305 to Okanogan County Jail for a jail bill in October.

$6,504 to The Oldani Group of Bellevue for police chief recruitment.

$222 to U.S. Postal Service for postage from Nov. 30 to Dec. 9.

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