The 2008-2009 proposed city budget was presented to the Lindon City Council June 4 as a public hearing issue on the agenda.

The final budget will be approved on June 17 at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting.

Issues raised by the city started with the waste service contract with Allied Waste Services which has requested a fuel surcharge and an increase on recycling services.

Another of the issues brought to the council's attention was an increase in insurance benefits for city employees. Currently, there are about 50 full-time employees and the increase would have about a $20,000 impact on the city budget.

Also there was a proposed 3.9 percent cost of living allowance increase for employees due to US Department of Labor studies. This would put a $116,267 impact on the proposed budget.

Contributing to the revenue fund were 122 residential and 16 non-residential building permits throughout the city, equaling about three percent of the city revenue.

Also adding to the budget was sales tax, which equaled about 23 percent at $2.9 million and utility charges at about 22 percent. After increasing the RDA tax, an additional $793,000 was added in.

Using up these funds will be about 54 percent for operations and about 26 percent for personnel.

The general tax revenue for the past year was about $5.2 million. More than half of that money was derived from sales tax.

Taking a chunk out of the total amount spent by the city's various departments was the public safety department claiming about 40 percent of the total funds. However, with that includes the creation of the new police department and joining with the Orem Fire Department for increased city services.