Budget Watch

Here’s how some of your tax dollars were spent in recent city council action:

Everett: $69.52 charged to a city credit card for a lava lamp used for a senior center dance.

$163.37 charged to a charged to a city credit card for the Fourth of July parade.

$1.05 million to Stellar J. Corp. of Woodland for additional work to a new $17.76 million reservoir at the city’s water filtration plant.

$324,188 to Ed, Tom and Tim Rubatino and a contractor to repair damage to a building at 2822 Hoyt Ave. caused by a leaking city water line in February 2006.

$55,000 to Aspect Consulting of Seattle for geotechnical work at a city-owned log yard north of U.S. 2 on the Snoho­mish River that the city hopes to use for its public works yard.

$100,000 call for bids on 360 cases of ammunition for the Everett Police Department.