1040 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS TENTATIVE BUDGET For the Year 1949 1040 10+1 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS 1041 TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter of Transmittal and Exhibits and Balances, Operating Funds SECTION I I-XX SECTION II Statement of Estimated Receipts, Disbursements 1-2 SECTION III GENERAL FUND General Fund Estimated Revenues Appropriation Summary General Government ...3 4-5 6-16 Public Safety-Summary Police Department. 17 18-19 Fire Department 20-21 Public Works-Summary 22 Engineering 23-24 Street & Bridge Division Garbage Collection & Disposal 25-28 29-30 Cemeteries 31-32 General Parks Maintenance 33-34 Public Market 35 Municipal Airport 36-37 Inspections 38-39 Zoning Board 40 Planning Commission 41 Fublic Health-Summary 42 Fublic Health Office 43-44 Hospital 45-51 Public Welfare 52 Abattoir 53-55 Recreation 56-71 Libraries 72-75 Clearing Accounts 76-79 SECTION IV UTILITY FUND Estimated Revenue 80 Appropriation Summary 81-82 Electric Utility 83-90 Water Utility 91-97 Sewer Utility 98-100 W.L.P. Office 101-102 Administrative & General 103 Clearing Accounts 104 SECTION V INTEREST & SINKING FUND Statement Estimated Receipts, Disbursements and Balances Schedule of Bonded Debt Debt Service Requirements SECTION VI BOND FUNDS Schedule of Estimated Receipts, Disbursements and Balances 105 106-109 110-113 114 SECTION I LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL COUNCIL IILLER R R GLASS ROPRO TEM BARTHOLOMEW JOHNSON STUART LONG CITY OF AUSTIN FOUNDED BY CONGRESS, REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, 1839 GUITON MORGAN, CITY MANAGER November 30, 1948 FORD The Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council Submitted herewith for your consideration is the Budget for the City of Austin for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1949. Working papers showing all revenue and expense statements, departmental appropriations, general obligation and revenue bonds authorizations, etc. have been filed with the City Clerk. Mimeograph copies will be available for study as soon as stencils can be cut and the copies made. Operating costs, as distinguished from new construction jobs, have been meld to as low a figure in each instance as was deemed advisable considering the necessary services to be carried on. As much money as possible has been allocated co extensions and improvements to the water, electric, and sewer systems and for baving, storm sewers, traffic lights and other similar permanent improvements. The particular needs and most important jobs are noted specifically in each of the respective sections of the budget. Total revenues from tax sources, departmental and utility earnings are greater than similar revenues for 1948, but increased payroll and material costs, lepartmental expansion and other factors more than equal the revenue increases. This No major building projects other than the hospital job are included. s $1,500,000.00 for additions to the building and for equipment. One million is rom general bond funds of the City and $500,000 is a grant from the Federal overnment. Section I consists of this letter and exhibits. Section II is a combined statement of receipts, disbursements and balances f all funds for the years 1948 and 1949. Section III covers all General Fund operations showing receipts, disburseents and balances and itemized appropriations by departments. Section IV includes Utility Fund operations showing receipts, disbursements nd balances and itemized appropriations by departments. 1047 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page II 1042 Section V is a statement of the Interest and Sinking Fund showing receipts, disbursements and balances and a statement of general obligation bonds, the amount, date, and purpose of each original issue and the amounts now outstanding. Section VI shows independently of all other funds the recommended general obligation bond projects. Section VII shows independently of all other funds the recommended revenue bond projects. Payments to and costs incurred directly for the Austin Public School System are as follows and are shown in budget appropriations: Payments to the Public Schools from Utility Funds (Payable in 12 monthly installments.) Pro rata cost of assessing and collecting school taxes (paid by City) Free Water and Lights to schools (shown by reduction in City income) Interest and Principal payments on school bonds including Zilker Park notes (paid by City from Interest and Sinking Fund) Total costs incurred for the schools & direct payments to the schools Ad valorem taxes collected and paid directly to the School System $175,000.00 38,500.00 40,000.00 270,661.00 $524,161,00 $1,475,000.00 Figures in this letter and in the budget are with refcrence to operations of the City government only, and the figures with reference to costs and payments to the schools are only shown where they constitute a cost or expense and must therefore be budgeted. This is true of all of the above figures except the ad valorem taxes which are paid directly to the schools and do not show anywhere in the budget of the City proper. The 1949 budget is predicated on a few basic fundamentals. The first of these is that water, adequate in supply, with adequate treatment, pumping and distribution facilities to all parts of the City, is the most important consideration. A Considerable amount of work has been done during the past few years in oder to meet a successively increasing demand and the 1949 budget contemplates extensive further expansion of the water treatment, pumping and distribution system to again meet the peak load for next summer. Any construction along this line that will come in 1950 and subsequent years is believed to be scheduled in a logical sequence and the program for this year is about all that can be done financially and all thatcan be properly handled by the enginering staff of the City. Secondly, the improvement and extension of the sanitary sewer system has been considered the next important problem and the maximum amount of money and resources available of all kinds has been allocated for this purpose. Third and by far the largest in point of money in 1949 is the expansion of the electric plant and the strengthening of the olectric distribution system. The utility program and the specific jobs contemplated will be commented on in detail in the respective parts of this letter and will be found fully itemized in the budget schedule of appropriations for those utilities, 1043 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS 1043 Page III It has been the basic purpose in allocating the funds herein recommended to the end that the operating costs and capital improvements to the other departments of the City will be balanced and sound and that none of the services which the City is called upon to render will be impaired by unduly heavy appropriations to some other department or function. The amounts scheduled for Public Health, Public Safety, Public Works, Recreation, the Hospital, the proper control of the financial affairs of the City, Planing, Traffice, etc. have all be carefully considered and the real needs weighed one with another. The figures and amounts recommended are the result of considerable study and analysis, they have been revised in some instances many times, and the net result for all purposes is within the available resources which the City can reasonably expect. The amounts do not met all of the needs of these departments and services either from the standpoint of the public generally nor with respect to the normal demands of the departments concerned. In every instance where necessary, appropriations higher than 1948 are included andit appears that most of the basic needs are met and much work of an essential and worthwhile character will be possible during 1949. As everyone realizes, Austin is a rapidly growing City. The income from which the City operates necessarily lags behind the demands for public improvements and the desired expenditure of public money for nearly every purpose. As a result of this growth and as clear evidence of where the greatest demands lie, the totals of building permits and the total number of active utility accounts furnish a very clear picture. 1944 TOTAL BUILDING PERMITS BY YEARS Residences-Apartments 572,787 Commercial Bldgs. 35,010 Public (Federal, State City) TOTAL 1945 194.6 1947 Est. 1948 3,721,381 14,938,045 16,098,480 19,368,450 1,273,684 1,035,090 2,198,077 2,370,244 77,140 1,754,462 2,174,184 4,569,764 5,072,205 17,727,597 20,470,741 26,308,458 105,058 712,855 TOTAL UTILITY ACCOUNTS BY YEARS Est. 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Electric Customers 24,528 25,467 28,172 30,479 34,000 Hater Customers 22,337 23,450 25,311 27,116 29,700 Gas Customers 20,431 21,057 22,579 24,844 26,500 From the above figures it can be seen that the total of all building permits in Austin for 1948 is nearly 29% above 1947 and is nearly four million dollars more than 1945 and 1946 combined. The net result of this expansion in all parts of the City has resulted in a heavy increase in utility demands and in increased requirements from practically every service department of the City. The number of utility consumers increased at the rate of approximately 4% to 5% between 1945, at an average rate of nearly 10% botween 1945 and 1946 and at about the same rate between 1946 and 1947. During 1948 the increase jumped to 12% on Electric and 10% on water. In addition to the actual increase in the number of customers the consumer load itself has increased through the installation of air conditioning and other appliances and uses. 1044 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS 1044 Page IV Those increases and also a considerable increase in population mean additional demands for sanitation and garbage removal, added police and fire costs, more books in the public library, additional recreation and public health inspection services, higher street maintenance costs, additional bridge, paving and right of way expenditures, more demands on the hospital, and a general increase throughout the entire structure of the City government to serve this constantly increasing number of people. The basic income of the City if from ad valorem tax revenues including both current and delinquent collections, the receipts from franchises and gross receipts taxes, and licenses which are revenue calculations listed under the general heading of tax income. The secondmajor source of income to the City is from what is termed departmental income. This income is from a number of varied sources such as the recreation department, the hospital, abattoir, cometeries, court and library fines, parking meters, and miscellaneous sources. A third source of income which is highly variable is from payments by property owners toward street paving and other improvements which are a direct cost to the property owner, proceeds from the sale of property, federal grants, and other sources for specific purposes. The fourth major source of income is listed under the head of utility income and is the gross revenue derived from the operations of the electric, wator, and sewer systems, the latter being neglible as most of the cost of operation of the sanitary sewer system is carried by earnings from electric and water sales. Austin does not have any direct sewer charge. Sewer income is mainly what property owners pay to the City for connections to the sewer system and this amount is often less than actual cost. These earnings and the comparison between these amounts for the years 1945 to 1949, inclusive, are shown in the following tables. COMPARISON OF TAX INCOME BY YEARS Basis for Ad Valorem Tax Collections for all purposes Levied as of January 1 Collectible during 1944 1945 1945 1946 Est. Est. 1946 1947 1947 1948 1948 1949 Total Assessed Valuations 76,684,990 77,731,700 81,082,385 132,000.00 140,000,000 Tax Rate per $100 Valuations 235 235 250 230 275 Total amount of taxes Levied 1,781,762 1,805,717 2,006,005 3,028,872 3,850,000 Percent of Tax Roll Collected during year payable 93.47% 93.24% 92.02% 91.00% 90.00% 1045 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page V 1045 Tax Rates per 3100 Valuation 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 General Fund (City) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1,00 School Fund .70 .70 .70 .70 1.15 Interest & Sinking Fund (City & Schools) 65 .65 .80 .60 .60 2.35 2.35 2.50 2.30 2.75 Tax Revenue to City for Est. Est. General & Sinking Funds 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Ad Valorem 1,288,770 1,277,320 1,400,166 2,014,552 Franchise-Gross Receipts 36,338 37,680 47,731 72,994 2,098,000 82,500 Licenses 22,522 34,207 35,982 52,259 47,270 TOTAL 1,347,630 1,349,207 1,483,879 2,139,805 805 2,227,770 DEPARTMENTAL INCOME Est. Est. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Court & Library 41,487 90,511 121,214 124,450 130,000 Parking Meters 57,476 64,760 96,591 109,000 110,000 Rents 18,652 22,813 38,025 31,500 27,500 From Other Agencies General Miscellaneous 62,083 45,292 17,047 32,197 13,420 475. 245 687 225 225 Inspection Fees 2,714 7,752 9,877 11,500 11,000 Cemeteries 46,539 53,932 44,467 50,000 50,000 Airport 28,045 49,172 58,437 53,000 53,000 Rodent Control 9,877 9,892 7,780 4,500 4,500 Abattoir 133,442 193,753 195,761 186,200 173,500 Hospital 255,750 330,174 341,532 374,000 374,000 Recreation 32,005 45,107 84,326 86,416 83,610 TOTAL 688,545 913,403 1,015,744 1,062,988 1,030,755 MISCELLANEOUS INCOME Est.. Est. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Private payments toward Street paving 46,630 107,438 88,313 60,000 62,500 Sale of Property 12,273 20,537 8,147 81,358 27,500 Federal Grant 500,000 TOTAL 58,903 127,975 96,460 141,358 590,000 UTILITY INCOME Est. Est. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Electric 1,888,220 1,993,227 2,380,462 2,772,500 3,062,500 Water 725,175 790,724 1,065,547 1,208,500 1,135,800 Sewer 8,793 24,821 47,984 57,000 52,000 TOTAL 2,622,188 2,808,772 3,493,993 4,038,000 4,250,300 1046 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS == 1046 Page VI With reference to the table showing tax income, the difference between the 1946 assessed valuations, which is the basis for taxes payable in 1947, and the 1947 assessed valuations which formed the basis for 1948 tax payments is a result of the general equalization program which revised and brought up to date tax valuations which had not been done since 1927. As to tax rates, the general fund remains at $1.00 which has been the constant figure throughout the five year period shown and is the basis for all General Fund operations but the amount of taxes received is inadequate and must be supple-. mented by not only all of the departmental earnings but by a portion of the revenues from the utility department as well. The rate for Interest and Sinking Fund for the five years shown was increased from 65¢ in the first two years to 80 in 1946 and was reduced to 60 in 1947 and was the same in 1948. This represents the sum total of money with which the City meets interest payments on the City's bonded debt and retires this debt as the bonds mature and are due for payment. The school tax rate has remained at 70¢ for the first four years of this five years, and is increased to $1.15 as instructed by the School Board of the Austin Independent School District in accordance with an election in the summer of 1948, at which the people of Austin voted this increase. Departmental earnings have increased slowly, and the fact that this is slightly loss in 1949 than in 1948 is due to special payments made to the City which will not be paid in 1949. Miscellaneous income also shows certain variables. The principal reason why the figure for 1949 is high is that included in it is a federal frant of $500,000.00 which will be available during the year toward the $1,500,000.00 expansion program approved for Brackenridge Hospital. This grant is under an act of the United States Congress making available appropriations not to exceed $500,000.00 and not to exceed 1/3 the cost of building or improving hospitals. Utility income has shown a steady increase with the increase in the number of customers which is helping to provide money for the necessary expansion but the figures hereafter noted for additional facilities will show that a substantial partof the earnings during the next ten years will be required to pay for these improvements. The necessity for setting up a reserve for the retirement of revenue bonds which will be required to finance electric and water additions will affect the amount of utility funds which can be made available to supplement the general fund costs of the City government. As to finances generally and revenues of all kinds, it appears that Austin is in an excellent position, is sound as to its bonded debt, tax collections, utility revenues and all other sources of income. It is difficult at this time to make the resources moet all the pressing needs, but considered over the past few years and the next five to ten years, Austin should be able to finance its essential. building and developing in an orderly manner and on a sound financial basis. 1047 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS === 1047. Page VII The sum total of the City's resources, including balances available at the beginning of any fiscal year in its operating funds and from the sale of bonds, plus earnings from all sources including further bond sales, is the gross, amount which can be allocated to the various departments and various projects which, on the basis of considered planning, need to be undertaken. The following table shows a comparison of total City income and resources for the period 1945 to 1949 inclusive. COMPARISON OF TOTAL CITY INCOME AND RESOURCES For Five Year Period 1945-1949, Inclusive. Est. Est. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Resources, beginning of year 1,161,301 1,309,026 143,248 1,052,2 ,052,281 1,655,961 Tax Income (Exclusive of Schools) 1,347,630 1,349,207 1,483,879 2,139,805 2,227,770 Dept. and Special Income Utility Earnings 747,448 1,041,378 1,112,204 1,204,346 2,611,927 2,308,771 3,493,993 4,232,300 1,620,755 Sale of Bonds-General 2,900,000 2,553,000 4,275,300 950,000 Sale of Bonds-Revenue 2,650,000 TOTAL 5,868,306 6,508,382 9,133,324 11,181,732 13,379,786 Considering the first item under the 1949 column, which is the estimated cash balance on hand, most of this amount is bond funds available only for specific purposes, and money in the Interest and Sinking Fund for debt service retirement, and only a small amount can be considered as operating funds. Adding to this the other indicated sources of revenue including the sale of general obligation bonds and the sale of revenue bonds, gives the City the greatest resources available in any one year in Austin's history. Concurrently, however, with the great amount of money needed for utility expansion, the expenditures as hercafter outlined will also be greater than any year in the City's history. The item of revenue bonds in the amount of $2,650,000.00 needs specific comment. During the year a study of the water, clectric and sewer system was completed, covering an improvement plan for the next ten years, and copies of this study were placed in the hands of the City Council and with the representatives of the press and radio. This program will intensively be carried on during 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952 and will be continued, but at a less rapid rate, until about 1958. This program generally must contemplate the addition of steam turbines, condensers, boilers, water intakes, and all of the required accessory electric and mechanical equipment at the City electric power generating plant. Installed capacity there, plus all of the available electric energy which we can secure elsewhere, is now barely equal to the demands of the City } 1048 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS 1048 Page VIII for electric light and power. Concurrently with the expansion of the plant must be an expansion in the electric distribution system, high voltage transmission lines, feeder lines, electric substations, transformer banks, and all of the appertenancés necessary toward a properly functioning distribution system with adequate voltage and adequate controls. Also the demands are great for expansion of the water treatment facilities, pumping capacity, and distribution mains. The sewage disposal plant during this period must be doubled in size and additional pump stations and mains added to the existing sanitary sewer system. A substantial part of this cost must be provided by issuance of revenue bonds. These bonds will have to be retired over a ten year period, commencing in each instance with the date of issue. The added revenues to the City due to the increased consumption of water and electricity help pay for these improvements and a ten year analysis of the City's finances and revenue of all kinds including the servicing of the bonded debt and of the estimated operating costs for this ten year period, together with the estimated costs of the improvements under discussion indicate that these requirenents can be met and can be financed in the manner proposed. A major item in each Annual Budget is the amount necessary to meet the interest and sinking fund payments on the outstanding bonded debt of the City. The Following table shows a comparison of the outstanding bonded debt and the amounts required for principal and interest payments for the period 1945 to 1949, inclusive. BONDED DEBT AND DEBT SERVICE Bonds Outstanding January 2 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 , General Obligation Bonds 5,342,000 4,983,500 4,656,000 8,501,500 12,470,000 BONDED DEBT PAYMENTS 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 'rincipal Interest Total 358,500 327,500 304,500 307,500 483,500 207,040 192.860 228,712 267.106 376,225* : 565,540 520,360 533,212 574,606 859,725 *Includes $45,000 Interest for nine months on $2,000,000 new bonds. The present bonded indebtedness is itemized in the budget proper and shows he amount and purposes of each bond issue as voted by the people of Austin, the inerest rate, and the amount of each issue outstanding at this time. The issuance f bonds in 1947-1948 have been for such purposes as water, electric, and sewer xtensions, street and bridge construction, schools, hospital and recreation urposes, and a further issue of bonds in the spring of 1949 is contemplated. This mount should be approximately $2,000,000 and will include the sale of $900,000 ospital Bonds for the expansion plans now being prepared. J 1049 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page IX 1049 The remainder of this letter will attempt to analyze the appropriations being recommended for 1949. The tables in each instance which follow show comparative costs of each unit of the City Government for the same five year period for 1945 to 1949, inclusive. GENERAL FUND COSTS The General Fund will be considered first by sections as set out for budget and accounting purposes. Under the first group is listed the Administrative and General Costs of the City Government which includes the items as shown. GENERAL FUND EXPENSES ADMINISTRATION AND GENERAL: EST. EST. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 City Manager 22,462 20,954 20,410 19,760 19,398 Municipal Court 8,677 11,182 16,702 17,934 17,523 Accounting 55,031 57,956 57,381 59,300 63,529 Tax Office 55,332 47,648 134,923 94,366 76,967 Purchasing 11,941 14,573 14,635 13,966 16,442 City Attorney 14,165 21,320 18,310 21,423 21,815 Municipal Building 31,158 28,117 30,194 32,333 30,898 General Division 122.430 75,943 89,155 88,163 82,105 TOTAL 321,196 277,693 381,710 347,245 328,677 These are operating expenses, and each is itemized in the budget proper showing a break-down of recommended expenditures which make up the total estimate shown in the 1949 column. There are certain yearly fluctuations due to specific costs incurred in those year, but this portion of the costs of the City Government for 1949 is only slightly more than two percent higher than in 1945 and is actually less than for 1948 and 1947. PUBLIC SAFETY Police Fire TOTAL EST. EST. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 292,788 338,665 454,430 440,816 447,352 333,540 364,723 1 384,067 491,063 459,414 626,328 703,388 838,497 931,879 906,766 The Public Safety portion of the General Fund Budget includes the Police and Fire Departments. The above table shows a five-year comparison of the total costs of each of these Departments which necessarily have increased. Salaries have been increased progressively in these different years, and the costs of materials, supplies, equipment, gasoline, tires and other items have also gone up in price. With. respect to the Fire Department, two new stations (one in the northwestem and one in the southwestern parts of the City) are now under construction, and these stations will require fourteen additional men beginning in January 1949. Also two pumpers have been purchased and have been delivered to permit the reassignment of trucks and pumpers to adequately equip all stations. $4,800.00 will be required for the purchase of new fire hose and $4,000.00 will be needed to replace district cars 1 and 2 which are 1932 and 1935 models. The Fire Department is now equipped with two-way radio communication. Under regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, the City's radio communication system will have to be converted into a FM system prior to the summer of 1950. Some of this work was done in 1948, but 1050 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page X 1050 In view of other more pressing needs, communication equipment costs were eliminated rom the 1949 budget. The total Fire Department costs for 1948 shown above are igher than the figure for 1949 because it included $100,000.00 of bond money for he building of two new stations, for the purchase of two pumpers and for the ecessary equipment to put these two stations in operation. The increase in the umber of stations and in the number of men, will require four additional captains. Only a small increase in the total appropriation for the Police Department s. compared to 1948 totals has been reommended. Last year about twelve officers ere added, and the Crime Prevention Division was increased from two to four men y the transfer of two men from the Detective Division. The 1949 budget provides nly for two additional detectives which are really only replacements for the men ransferred and the addition of a stenographer to handle the reports filled by the etective Division and to save the time of these officers. Appropriations are included for the replacement during the year of nine cars ith excessive mileage with new cars and for the purchase of two motorcycles one f which is a replacement. Additional traffic signal light installations are listed and appropriations rovided for under the Electric Distribution Budget. UBLIC WORKS EST. EST. 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 ngineering 62,080 88,771 99,854 108,396 109,637 treet and Bridge 297,092 648,762 1,261,603 1,569,956 999,203 rash & Garbage 140,307 173,032 198,739 279,766 269,928 emeteries 45,153 62,321 57,165 60,950 72,038 eneral Parks 46,951 56,377 53,163 59,314 66,889 ublic Market 8,010 7,797 8,175 8,387 8,215 irport 36,451 20,061 28,089 44,162 73,440 nspections 28,076 33,271 37,354 40,042 40,029 oning 1,346 2,391 2,615 2,682 2,575 lanning 8,859 8,424 12,593 24,400 16,878 Total 673,825 1,101,207 1,759,350 2,198,055 1,658,832 Under the Engineering Division of the Public Works Department, the total approriations are substantially the same as for 1948. This includes all engineering ayrolls and incidental expenses, all design and drafting work, the preparation of Lans and specifications and construction supervision, for the entire Public Works apartment. Requests for additional draftsmen and surveying personnel could not 3 approved. The work load on this Department is heavy, but it appears to be navoidable that it operate on the total amount of money shown. Under Street and Bridge Division, the total amount shown is less than for last Bar, but included in last year were considerable amounts for the purchase of rightway on East 7th, East Avenue, and Lamar, and much less for these purposes will be quired in 1949. The Street and Bridge maintenance portion is being carried at proximately $240,000 which is almost exactly the same as for 1948. Austin has a Darly increasing mileage of streets and numbers of bridges, storm sewers, etc., to aintain, but it has not appeared possible to increase the number of men and equipant for general maintenance work. Within the money available, it will be cessary to get the maximum amount of results, but it probably will be necessary to 1051 = CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XI 1051 increase the maintenance appropriations in 1950. A considerable amount of requests for resurfacing badly worn pavements and for other needed maintenance has had to be eliminated from the total amount recommended. The total of $759,000 is being included in the 1949 Street and Bridge Budget for new construction and for the completion of right-of-way purposes which is broken down as follows: $93,000.00 for the remaining right-of-way purchases on East Avenue and Lamar Boulevard. 40,000.00 for the additional one-half of the City's part of the cost of the low water bridge below the Dam which is in addition to the $50,000 of bond money which was voted for this same purpose. 49,500.00 is being included for the construction of various culverts at different locations. 10,000.00 is being included for the excavation of drainage channels as needed and as may be authorized during the year. 101,000.00 is included for the construction of storm sewers in various locations as required and as approved. 5,400.00 is included for curb and getter construction by the City where same are not a part of abutting property in connection with new paving. 330,000.00 is included for the construction of Lamar Boulevard in its entirety from 24th to 45th Street. This job was intended to start about September 1948, but right-of-way difficulties have held it up necessitating its continuance as a 1949 appropriation. 100,000.00 is included for contract residential paving in various parts of the City as these jobs come along, and the property owners agree to their part of the costs and as may be approved throughout the year. 50,000.00 is included for miscellaneous paving work probably in small jobs throughout the City and which may be done by city forces and with city equipment. Some 15,000.00 is included for resurfacing certain old pavements. of this work can not be postponed any further. 15,000.00 also is included for scarifying and reshaping certain residential pavement which is now worn beyond the point where maintenance can do any further good. Both of the two proceding amounts are far less than needed and far less than the Department requested, but the total is probably all that the 1949 budget will permit. Almost all of the items for construction have been reduced greatly from the schedules submitted by the Engineering Department. As a matter of fact, the total being recommended is over a million dollars less than was outlined by the Departent for consideration. 1052 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XII 1052 The Trash and Garbage Division is being recommended for a little more perating money than was available in 1948, but the sum total is slightly less, he difference being in the cost of repairs to the incinerator. These costs areing hold down under what had to be spent in 1948. The budget herein recommended Des provide a special sum of $8,000 for trucking and labor costs for a special ean-up job next year in an effort to hold down the incidence of Polio and other ommunicable diseases. This is exclusive of a special appropriation noted under de Public Health Budget. 14,450.00 of the Trash and Garbage Budget is for the purchase of a new ›ist mechanism at the incinerator. The furnaces have been entirely rebricked mis year at a considerable cost and will eliminate the interruptions caused aring the past few years by the failure of these furnaces. The hositing mechanism i giving trouble, but a new replacement cannot be delivered until July or August, 49. In the meantime the old crane hoist mechanism and bucket will require $4,500 or repairs which will have to be done in order to keep this in operation without ich the incinerator will again be out of service causing a disruption in the tire garbage collection schedule. $10,100.00 is included in the Budget for the replacement of as many trucks possible. Again this entire overall appropriation could have been substantially creased, but almost every appropriation had to be reduced and all of the needs of e Sanitary Department could not be provided. The appropriations for the Cemeteries, General Park Maintenance, Public rket are not materially different. The amount recommended for the Cemeteries $12,000 higher than 1948, but this appears to be unavoidable due to the necsity of opening up a new area and for excavation, part of which is in rock. igher of these appropriations is as large as the Departmenta requested. The Airport Budget as far as operating costs are concerned is almost identi1 with 1948. The increase shown is from bond funds available for the improvement taxi ways, ramps, and other work which is badly needed and on which it is hoped $50,000 Federal appropriation through the Civil Aeronautic Administration will be ssible. This will make $100,000 available for these improvements, and new constction involved, and is in itself less than the total amount which could be spent d porbably should be spent. : The remaining items covering building, sewer and electrical inspection; sts of Zoning Board and Planning Commission, do not call for any particular mments. The amount for the Planning Commission is less than 1948, but greater an any of the preceding years of the period shown in the table above, the rea1 being that in 1948 the land use map costs were authorized and this work is ostantially complete. The total Public Works Budget is $540,000 less than 18, principally represented by cost of right-of-way, but is at the same time most a million dollars higher than these same costs in 1945, which is again an lication of the rapid growth of Austin and the very heavy demands for money for arly every operation carried on under the general heading of Public Works. 1053 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XIII 1053. PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 1945 1946 1947 Est. 1948 Est. 1949 Health Office Hospital Welfare Total 75,934 105,569 514,459 562,701 106,911 648,027 116,461 114,383 727,246 2,239,701 94,758 82.213 71,425 79,947 89,772 685.151 923.654 2,443,856 750.483 826.363 The appropriations for the Public Health and Welfare Division are comparable to the appropriations for these same purposes for 1948. The Public Health Budget which covers Public Health Nursing, Dairy, Food, and Sanitary inspections, Vital Statistics, and Community Public Health work generally has not been expanded. It does include $12,000 for spraying and special polio prevention work including an item of $6,000.00 for DIT, It is hoped that Austin and the country as a whole will not experience in 1949 the polio incidence that was unfortunately the case this year, but the amounts for preventive work are left without any reduction. The operating costs for General Welfare are almost exactly the same as for 1948, but the $10,000.00 additional represents the special costs for the cerebral Dalsy clinic which is urgently needed for the treatment of these unfortunate chiliren and is an appropriation which could not be postponed. The Hospital shows an increase of about $1,510,000 over 1948. $1,500,000 of this is included, however, in the program for the general expansion of the building, equipment and facilities which will be financed by $1,000,000 of. City jeneral Revenue Bonds voted for this purpose, and a $500,000 grant from the United tates Government. The actual operating costs of the Hospital are increased only 10,000 over the amount estimated to be spent in 1948. During 1948 some additional ersonnel was authorized, and the increase shown can not be avoided. Primarily his increase is for additional nurses and nurses aides needed for the operation of he Premature Nursery, and it is possible that additional nursing costs will be ncurred but must be avoided if possible. The amount recommended for the Hospital s considerable less than requested; but with the number of employees now authorzed and the specific amounts appropriated it is believed that the Hospital will be n a position to render entirely adequate services to the people of Austin both pay nd charity. BATTOIR otal 1945 149,471 1946 270.909. 1947 157,938 Est. 1948 Est. 1949 139,943 130,768 The total appropriation for the operation of the Abattoir is less than any f the other four years shown in the above schedule. Part of this is explained by he fact that a major construction job had to be done in 1946 and a part of this ost was carried over in to 1947. Every economy is being made in the operation; nd while the appropriation is reduced, it is believed this amount of money will ermit a satisfactory job in the inspection and slaughter of animals brought in and onsigned to the local market. 1054 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XIV 1054 RECREATION Total Est. Est. 1945 201,640 1946 491,150 1947 1948 1949 291,496 363,936 419,306 The total amount shown for the Recreation Department during 1948 and 1949 are considerably above the previous year 1947, but these amounts include Bond Funds for the construction of the Recreation and Livestock colisem and for certain other capital investments and improvements to the park and playground system. The operating costs included in the above figures for the Recreation Department are only slightly more than similar amounts for 1948 and in fact are only about 10% greater than was expended by this Department in 1945. The value of Austin's recreation system including the neighborhood playgrounds and swimming pools, athletic fields, and other programs cannot be measured in dollars. It is a vital factor in the general question of public health and particularly with respect to that intangible known as juvenile delinquency. Some of the specific improvements covered by the appropriation recommended are for work such as additional lighting of the softball and tennis courts at Westenfield, the softball field at Gillis Playground, the East Avenue Play area, the softball field. at Metz, the softball and tennis area at Shipe, the building of about 100 additional park benches for general distribution, the construction of a fence and other improvements for the negro baseball field and other incidental jobs throughout the City. It has also been necessary to add personnel to service the new Caswell Tennis Center which is just now being put in operation and to provide for the maintenance of the Recreation and Livestock Colisem which should be completed by the early part of February. The appro- priation also includes the construction of tennis courts at Ramsey Playground. LIBRARIES Total 1945. 33,953 Est. Est. : 1946 40,676 1947 53,339 1948 1949 63,467 65,699 The total appropriation recommended for the Main and Carver Branch Libraries are slightly more than the appropriations for 1948, but less than was requested. Again it seemed unavoidable that these costs be reduced to a minimum figure. The principal increases authorized were a greater allowance for the purchase of books and a sufficient sum for a cooling system for the trailer library which is being extensively used at each of the stops on its schedule. 1055 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XV UTILITIES WATER, LIGHT & SEWER 1055. Est. 1945 1946 1947 1948 Est. 1949 Electric Plant Electric System Water Plant-Pumping and Filtration 349,144 408,924 436,991 517,383 2,810,684 357,309 583,311 1,037,359 1,033,557 944,131 97,527 129,785 189,904 298,368 380,105 Water System 163,546 468,692 738,517 668,343 891,159 Sewer Plant 48,740 59,589 39,749 56,264 56,644 Sewer System 88,201 295,315 771,389 624,439 538,804 Office 82,506 96,793 94,787 121,538 117,330 Administrative & General 126,439 97,486 128,283 55,571 55,750 TOTAL 1,313,412 2,139,895 3,436,979 3,375,463 5,794,607 snow. The Electric Plant improvements in 1949 will be very high as the above figures Exclusive of operating costs including salaries, fuel, maintenance and repairs, the following are the major improvements scheduled and recommended in the Budget appropriation: $100,000 for engineering costs covering designs, plans, specifications per agreement with Burns and McDonnell of Kansas City under contract authorized by the City Council in 1948. 30,000 for the purchase of additional land which will be needed for the location of the new Power Plant building, particularly a part of the turbine building. 600,000 for an additional screening tower and water intake at the river, including additional water pumping station, circulating water tunnels, boiler and turbine building, build- ing foundations and other structural work. 620,000 for boiler plant equipment including two 200,000 pound per hour steam boilers, feed water piping, bleeder heaters, evaporators, drain pump, boiler feed pumps, regulators, water treating equipment, draft fans, breeching, oil and gas fuel burning equipment, firing controls, etc. 600,000 for steam turbine generator foundation and buildings, including two 17,000 square foot condensers, four 12,000 GPM circulating water pumps, cooling water piping, steam piping, lubrication systems, valves, circulating water screens, priming pumps, fire extinguishing system, etc. 150,000 for accessory electric equipment for the new generators, including station equipment, oil circuit breakers, relays, conduit, meters, voltage regulators, synchronizing equipment, etc. 100,000 for necessary mecnanical equipment, scheduled and an integral part of this power generating installation. 1056 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS = Page XVI 1056 ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM The electric distribution system's recommended appropriations are about $90,000 less than the past two years, 1947 and 1948, but constitute fairly heavy expenditures for the strengthening and expansion of the system. Operating costs are slightly higher than in 1948, and in addition, the principal new construction jobs provided for are as follows: $248,000 for miscellaneous extensions to the present electric service lines, including poles, wire, transformers, meters, and domestic and commercial service. This work will consist of several thousand small extension jobs through the City to serve new customers as required. 69,000 for the same type of extension work in the ten-mile area just outside the City limits which the City serves with electricity to connect new customers as this work is required to be done. 75,000 for the construction of 12 KV feeder lines in the Ridgetop area and between the Airport and Clark Substation including two 7200 volt regulators and extension of a 12 KV No. 2 copper line in the Fiskville, North Loop, Burnet Road area. 88,600 is included for a 12 KV feeder circuit for the South Austin area including a 11,000 volt oil circuit breaker, four 11,000 to 7,200 volt transformers and a four wire three phase copper line. Also included in this job is a 12,000 volt regulator in the Barton Springs crossing and Missouri Pacific Railroad. 16,600 for the completion of the rebuilding of the Clark Substation and the replacement of oil circuit breakers, part of which was done in 1948. 41,500 is included for the Varsity Substation and the extension of two 11,000 volt underground feeders west of the University, and the construction of an underground substation at 24th and San Antonio streets. This is necessary to relieve the overload condition on the North Substation and to furnish a connection with the North and University Substations. 65,000 is included for capacitors for voltage correction on the 12 KV radial feeder line. 24,000 is included for the extension of a network system at 9th and Lavaca covering the installation of a new vault and 500 KVA network transformer. 40,000 is included for the installation during the year of approximately 300 mast arm type street lights at various locations as approved including the necessary extensions to the street light circuits. 1057 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XVII 37,000 is included for the installation of the following traffic signal control lights at the intersections named. Airport Boulevard at 51st Street Guadalupe at 1st, 7th 8th 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, Nueces Barton Springs at South ist Street Barton Springs at West Riverside Drive Neches at 5th, 6th, 7th Streets San Jacinto at Duval, 26th, Park Place Lamar at 10th, 29th, 34th, 45th Streets Burnet Road at 45th Street Congress Avenue at 3rd Street Red River at 1st, 5th, 11th, 15th Streets Colorado at 11th Street South Congress Avenue at Live Oak South Congress Avenue at Mary South 1st Street at Mary San Antonio at 5th Street 1057 Grouped under the pumping at the Filtration Plant are total expenditures of $380,000. Eliminating operating costs, including salaries, chemicals, and other plant operation items, the improvements for treating, pumping, and handling an additional volume of water are as follows: $5,000 for the enlargement of the Woodrow Street pumping station, including a new 1,500 GPi pump. 1,150 for the addition of a new raw water line on the west side of Snoal Creek to the Filter Plant. This is needed to get additional raw water to the plant as required. 11,500 is includea for the installation of wash water pumps at the Filter Plant, as the present method of operation has been inadequate, and this change is necessary for more efficient cleaning of the filters and the maintenance of a more uniform pressure in the distribution mains. 1,100 is included for the installation of a cooling system in the main pump room in the Filter Plant. The additional high service pumps purchased and put into operation during 1947 and 1948 have increased the temperatures in the pump room, and this equipment is absolutely essential to prevent overheating of bearings and possible serious damage to equipment and interruption to pumping capacities. 10,200 is included for the purchase and installation of three new raw water Venturi meters. The meters on the two existing raw water lines are inadequate and have to be replaced and the additional line will require an additional meter. 1058 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XVIII $15,600 is included for a new high service pump discharge line and mever on the treating side of the plant. The existing south high service pump discharge line will have to be removed, and an additional 24" line built to conform to the construction of the 30" force main which is also a 1949 budget job. 1058 130,100 also included for the Water Purification Plant is the construction of a new three million gallon clear well now under con- tract. The clear wells are the reservoirs at the Water Plant from which all high service pumps draw water after final treatment for pumping into the City's distribution system. The present clear well has a capacity of 500,000 gallons, and the pumps which have been added during the past three years pump more water than can be handled through this clear well, and this additional capacity is badly needed and it will increase the overall pumping capacity by a total of three million gallons during each 24 hour period or at the rate of six million gallons during the 12 hour daylight peak load. 5,000 is also included for a new lime machine as the present equipment is worn out. WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. In addition to operating costs which are itemized in the Budget proper, the major new construction covered in the Water Distribution Budget is as follows: $380,000 for the laying of 19,800 of 30" prestressed steel cylinder concrete pipefrom the Filter Plant west across Shoal Creek through the Electric Plant grounds, under the missouri-Pacific Railroad and west across the Sand Beach Reserve to 6th Street west of the underpass, thence north following the MissouriPacific right-of-way to 35th Street. This job is needed to get more water away from the Plant to feed the main distribution lines in the west and north parts of the City and to furnish a connection to the present mains feeding the reservoir on the Dallas Highway. Two previous jobs, a 24" cast iron line in Barton Springs Road and south on Kinney Avenue in the vicinity of Fredericksburg Road, built in 1948, were needed for the same purpose in the southwestern part of the City; and a similar 24" line out East lst, north on Navasota, and East Avenue to the University area was built in 1947 to serve the East and northeast sections of the City with more water. 126,700 is included for a 24" cast iron pipe from the end of the 30" line previously mentioned extending east from 35th Street to Kirby Lane and then north to 38th Street, then east to Guadalupe to provide the needed connections to two 20" mains now feeding the reservoir. Pressure difficulties in the north, northeast, and extreme southwest parts of the City have been materially improved during the past two years, but further work is needed. 1059 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XIX 1059 $9,250 for 1700 of 12" cast iron pipe on North Loop from Grover Avenue to Highway 81, which will tie in with the 12" mains laid this year and which will connect with the booster pump station and should further improve pressures in Ridgetop and the northeast section. 26,400 for 4,800 of 12" cast iron pipe in East 52nd from Avenue F to Airport Boulevard to further improve pressure conditions in the Ridgetop area and to connect to the north booster station. job is also a continuation of similar work done in 1947. This 140,000 is included for miscellaneous extensions, replacements, installation of fire hydrants and odd jobs thoughout the city to connect new houses and to extend fire protection to new areas. This work will be done as new homes and business houses are completed, and as these services are required. 50,000 is being included for the cost of connections from water mains to the property line to serve new customers as required. 40,000 is included for the purchase of water meters of various sizes to serve new customers and for replacements of meters which will wear out during the year. 4,000 is included for the replacement of two 1937 trucks which have already been used longer than economical. SANITARY SEWER DIVISION. Additional maintenance costs of the system and plant now in operation and contemplates the following major additions; $150,000 for the building of a 30" sanitary sewer line in Waller Creek from 7th to 26th Streets as the present 20" line is badly overloaded. The old 20" line will be left in service and will be supplemented by the new 30" line, and these two lines together should be adequate for any load which they may be called on to carry. 50,000 for the construction of a new 24" line from Shoal Creek between 12th and San Gabriel Streets to supplement the existing 18" line which is overlaoded but which will remain in service. These twO lines should be adequate for a good many years. 45,000 for the building of a new 20" line at Brazos from Colorado to 6th to relieve the overloaded conditions of the present line which also will remain in service, and these two lines together should be adequate. 108,400 is included for miscellaneous extensions of both six and eight inch laterals thoughout the City as new connections are required and as this work is authorized during the year. 1060 CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS Page XX 1060 SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. The Sewage Treatment Plant shows an appropriation for about the same as last year and there are no specific jops which deserve comment. In the overall utility program which is required in the last few years the capacity of the Sewage Treatment Plant will have to be doubled, but this does not have to be undertaken at this time. The Office and Administrative Sections of this budget are operating costs and include an appropriation for the water and light, accounting office, slightlyless than the total amount for 1948. Similarly the administrative and general costs are approximately the same as last year and the items for both of these are detailed in the budget proper. Givi: my Respectfully submitted, 4. Guiton Morgan, City Manager,