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By Steve Hansen QCS Managing Editor The first draft of the county’s fiscal 2014 budget shows an expec tation of very little change from the fiscal 2013 budget, according to County Manager Richard Primrose. Primrose presented the budget to the Quay County Board of Commissioners on May 28. The proposed budget calls for about $8 mil lion in cash that includes $1.5 million in property taxes and $1.3 million in hospital rev enues, budget docu ments show. Other money sources include shares of New Mexico gross receipts tax funds and capital outlays apportioned by the state legislature, Primrose said. In the preliminary budget, nearly $8.6 mil lion in expenses are expected, led by $2 mil lion in general fund expenses, nearly $1.2 million in road expendi tures, $1.1 million in county expenses at Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital, the county hospital, and $1 million to run the county jail, according to budget doc uments. Primrose said the county plans to close out a recent $300,000 Commitou Unity Development Block Grant allocation that was used to pave Quay Road 64, making that road one of only two county roads that are fully paved. The other Quay roads 64 and Al are the only two in the coun ty that are fully paved, County Manager Richard Primrose says. Quay Road 64 was paved last year with federal block grant funds. Quay Road Al is where Tucumcari Airport is located. is the Airport Road, Quay Road A1. The county intends to apply for another $500.00 in federal CDBG funds to pave Quay Road 63, Primrose said. Two capital outlay allocations approved by the New Mexico Legislature will be used for air conditioning in the County Jail ($50,000) and replacing windows’ at __ Trigg Hospital. The replace ment windows, Primrose said, will pro vide insulation that will save heating and air conditioning costs. Primrose also said the county’s 72 employees will receive a 2-percent across the board raise, but nearly three-quar ters of that raise will cover increases in retire ment program costs. The raise, Primrose said, accounts for most of a $72,000 increase in salaries expected for fis cal 2014. CS Photo: Steve
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Quay County Sun
Tucumcari, New Mexico, US
Wed, Jun 05, 2013
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