Santaquin adopts slim budget

SANTAQUIN — A slimmed-down budget for fiscal year 2010 has included cutting out most road improvements or buying new equipment.

Those items didn't fit in this year's $6.6 million overall Santaquin budget, which has a general-fund budget of $4.1 million. Last year the budget topped $7 million with a general-fund budget of $4.5 million.

City officials early on were hoping to do some major road rehabilitation, city recorder Susan Farnsworth said.

Already adopted, the budget doesn't include property tax increases or changes in city employees, including personnel or wage increases. It has no changes in city services.

The city is finishing up its pressurized irrigation system on the east side, which will complete it for the entire city, Farnsworth said. That project is paid for out of the 2008-09 budget.

— Rodger L. Hardy