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the end of the year.
The city states in its
budget overview that chal-
lenges it faced creating the
2013 budget include the
on the City loss of $72,000 in federal
; proposed grants for 2013, the loss of
budget for an estimated $20,000 in li-
.'ity commis- quor sales tax revenues, an
s meeting atEMS levy loss of $52,000
r at city hall. due to re-assessment of
nary budget property values, and the
less than the pressure of wage increases
tget, primar- with no cost-of-living ad-
:ompletion of justment since 2009.
of the wasteThe preliminary budget
nt plant up-calls for an almost identi-
in the 2012 cal amount of city staff,
with a net reduction of a .5
ay's prelimi- full-time equivalent (FTE)
public hear-employee. It also includes
have anothera salary to hire a combined
k at the final public works/communi-
hearing at 6ty development director.
he city mustEmployee costs, includ-
budget by ing salaries, account for
e
e~ •
73 percent of the proposed The Capital Improve-
budget, ment Fund includes $4.7
"No one was laid off," million in expenditures.
said Cathy Beierle, the Proposed capital projects
city's finance director, and improvements include
The good news for city $83,195 in street overlays:
employees is that their on Franklin Street between
costs for the health insur- 10th and 12th streets; 10th
ance are rising only 2 per- and llth streets between
cent, after years of annual Franklin Street and Rail-
premium increases of al- road Avenue; G Street
most 10 percent, Beierle between Sherwood and
said. King streets; King Street
The preliminary sewer between G and H streets;
fund calls for expenditures the intersection of F and
of $16,633,471 and project- Jefferson streets; and H
ed revenues of $16,005,039, Street from King to Laurel
leaving an estimated streets.
shortfall of $628,432. This The proposed budget
means sewer rates for cus- also includes $255,000 for
tomers will be going up, a dump truck, $352,000 for
in an amount to be deter- a new garbage truck that
mined.soon, Beierle said. can be used for both trash
"We knew it was com- and recycling collection,
ing," she said. "It's not a and $112,676 for a new fi-
surprise." nancial system.
r seeks tales of Mason County health care
Do you have nemories, let-
ters or photos ~o share about
hospitals and l~ealth care in
Mason County.~
Lter Carolyn
lp'fling a his-
General Hos-
ede~essors in
be published
aext spring in
the comple-
,ear building
) wants
on about ~1
health care-
ral remedies,
,spital proce-
.~d to attend a
house from
esday at the
~Iuseum.
Lcludes a dis-
:al photos by
ctor Justin
Lhe museum
cookies will
share anec-
anation from
The book is
released in
Ormer news-
and editor
he managing
helton-Mason
She teaches
at Olympic
Shelton wr
Maddux is cot
tory of Mason
pital and its p]
the county, to
by the hospital
conjunction wit
tion of its two-
project.
Anyone wh
share informat
aspects of local
including natu
politics and hq
dures - is invib
forum and ope
2-4 p.m. on Tt
Mason County:
The event h
play of histori,
museum dire
Cowling and
staff. Coffee an
be served.
Maddux wi[
dotes and into
her research.
scheduled to b
May.
Maddux is a
paper reportel
who served as1
editor of The S
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Call 426-4412 to subscribe to the
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ks of poetry
nbering Wa-
mteering on
,~els." She re-
with Shelton
~ariekman on
okbook/mem-
1 her health
ll go back to
ms residents
tlers.
Mason Coun-
creative writini
College Shelton
Maddux's bc
include "Reme
ter" and "Vol
a Fright of Anl
cently worked
resident Nita t
Bariekman's c(
oir.
Maddux sai,
care history v~
the First Nati,
and the first set
Maddux said
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Courtesy photos
Above, mothers pose with 80 of the 120 babies born in Shelton General
Hospital in 1936. Shelton author Carolyn Maddux is collecting stories
and photos for a book about the history of health care in Mason County.
Below, Shelton General Hospital, with the nurses' cottage (left) and Dr.
Collier's office in 1938.
ty's first hospitals were built in hotel rooms, she said. son General, which opened in
by the logging companies to The history will include 1968.
treat their injured workers. Shelton Hospital, built in To share your stories with
Before that, doctors tended to 1920; Collier Clinic Hospital, Maddux, call her at 426-2268
patients at their homes and constructed in 1946; and Ma- or email cmaddux@hcc.net.
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