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Stamp Out Hunger drive May 10 [4 brief primer on public agency budaetina
Letter carriers in the City of largest
largest one-day
one-day food
food drive
drive in
in
Vernonia and throughout Ore Oregon and in the nation.
gon will join with letter carriers
Residents in the city limits of
across America to do much Vernonia can help by donating
more than deliver mail on Sat food items such as canned
urday, May 10.
tuna, peanut butter, soups,
They will also collect dona stews and boxed meals. No
tions of nonperishable food
glass, please!
from their postal customers to
Donations may be placed by
Stamp Out Hunger during the your mailbox on Saturday, May
annual National Association of 10. Letter carriers will collect
Letter Carriers Food Drive, the the donations and deliver them
to Vernonia Cares.
c o n & FAX SERVICE
Anyone outside the city lim
its wishing to participate, may
ThB INDEPENDENT
bring donations to the Vernonia
Post Office lobby.
725 Bridge St., Vernonia
Last year, this event collect
ed over 800 pounds of food for
503 429-9410
Vernonia Cares.
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U U U y tH H ig
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All city, county, school and fire district budg
ets, and all agencies with budgets that must be
reported to the state, follow the same basic for
mat. Revenues and expenses are accounted
for in a variety of funds, each of which has a
defined purpose. The purpose may be to keep
track of funds allocated for specific projects,
such as building a reserve for replacement of
buildings or other infrastructure, or to track the
revenues and expenses of a department. Usu
ally, a General Fund serves as the main de
pository of revenue and the ‘checkbook’ for ex
penses.
At an agency’s first budget meeting, a budg
et message is delivered and, usually, the budg
et document is presented to the budget com
mittee for review. The budget document is di
vided into separate sections for each fund.
Each section, or fund, shows anticipated
revenues and proposed expenses for each ac
count within the fund. The proposed amount is
followed by a blank column that will be filled by
the budget committee’s recommended budget.
These committees are usually somewhat large
and most operate using Robert’s Rules of or
der to make agreed upon changes in the budg
et.
The recommended budget then goes before
the governing body, ie„ the board of directors,
council, etc., for final decisions. The final col
umn in a budget document is for the adopted
budget, as voted on by the governing body.
Also included in the budget document are au
dited figures showing actual revenues and ex
penditures for the previous two fiscal years (In
this case for fiscal years 2000-2001 and 2001-
2002), as well as the adopted budget for the
current fiscal year (2002-2003).
Resources (income) are presented first in
each budget account and include the anticipat
ed amount of each of the revenue sources that
go into a specific fund, for instance, taxes,
fees, grants, etc. Expenditures for each fund
are also itemized, depending on the anticipat
ed use, such as personnel, travel, materials
and services, capital outlay or contingency. A
special category included in the expenditure
portion, called the “unappropriated ending bal
ance” is intended to provide enough cash car
ryover to last until resources start coming in for
the new budget year. State law requires bal
anced budgets, therefore, total revenues (re
sources) must equal total expenditures (re
quirements).
Budget documents are huge, and are con
densed for publication. Only the totals for each
major category (personal services, debt serv
ice, capital outlay, etc.) are printed. This can
make the document extremely difficult to un
derstand, particularly when several entities,
such as schools, are combined into one ag
gregate budget.
by the Riverside at Dibblee Point Beach
Friends of Dibblee Point the Riverside Enhancem ent
dress for the weather and bring
(FDP) is inviting everyone inter and Appreciation Day, present
gloves. A com m unity potluck
ested to join in some worth ed by the Oregon Lottery.
BBQ and award celebration will
while work and good fun, May Thousands of people will be
conclude the day. FDP will pro
17 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., participating in enhancement
vide the hotdogs and condi
for the annual spring Beach projects in more than 100 com
ments, bring along a side dish,
Cleanup at Dibblee Point in munities across Oregon.
chips or soda. Free tee shirts
Rainier.
Volunteers at Dibblee Point from the Oregon Lottery will be
FDP is participating in will pickup litter along the 110-
available.
SOLV’s eighth annual Down by acre site. Volunteers should
Friends of Dibblee Point is
committed to keeping Dibblee
Point clean and accessible for
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General/Custom
the public to enjoy.
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Metal Fabrication & Welding
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of All Metals
S pecializing in S tainless S teel &A luminum
P hone /F ax : 5 0 3 - 4 2 9 - 8 4 3 1
[2 4 hr W ^
Protect Your Deck with
E conomy
S hingle O il
(Slight colorizing effect)
Chevron
CALL
(503) 429-6606
WILCOX & FLEGEL
720 Rose Avenue • Vernonia
Robert Williams Vernonia, Oregon
R epair i
The Health Habit
503-429-0501
Complete Co-Ed Gym Facility
Personal Training Available
Weight Loss/Gain • Wolff Tanning
Body Building • Nutritional Counseling
General Conditioning • Toning & Shaping
Olympic Weights • Full Line Apparatus
It's time to get ready for summer!
OPEN: 5a-9p M-F • 5a-5p Sat • Closed Sunday
16720 Noakes Rd., Vernonia, OR 97064
Friends of Dibblee
Point Beach planning
a workshop on
Naturescaping
A workshop on Naturescap
ing is being offered by Friends
of Dibblee Point on Saturday,
May 10, from 10 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. in Rainier. Participants will
learn techniques to attract
birds, butterflies and other
wildlife to their yards and gar
dens with the use of native
plants.
Local expert Patt Opdyke
with the OSU Extension Ser
vice will be teaching the work
shop. Workshop cost is $10.
To register, call Lori at 503-
556-2457. Proceeds will go to
wards costs associated with
keeping Dibblee Point Beach
clean and free of litter.