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Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Monday, July 01, 2002

20020701 to 2003 SDOSM Westminster City Budget Summary

20020701-2003 Westminster City Budget Summary

INCOME

TOTAL

GENERAL FUND

SEWER FUND

WATER FUND

Taxes - Local - Property

4,150,000

4,150,000



Taxes - Local - Income

1,200,000

1,200,000



Taxes - Local - Other

260,000

260,000



License & Permits

297,300

297,300



Revenue from other Agencies






Federal Grants &/or State Grants







Police Protection

390,000

390,000





Highway User revenue

800,000

800,000





Other

702,467

702,467




Carrol County Grants







Shared Revenue

622,429

622,429





Roads/Other

13,460

13,460





Financial Corporations

8,516

8,516



Fines & Forfeitures

64,000

64,000



Service Charges for Current Services

5,065,993

506,100

2,351,748

2,208,145








Miscellaneous







Interest Income

194,000

130,000

32,000

32,000



Benefit Assessments

2,911,083

197,900

1,286,500

1,426,683



Carrol County Septage Facility

310,000


310,000




Other - Parking Fees

4,400

4,400





Other

2,801,188

2,658,688

25,500

117,000

Prior Years Surplus or Allocations

864,566

864,566



Unfunded Deprication

12,666,000


834,000

432,000






TOTALS

21,925,402

12,869,826

4,839,748

4,215,828

EXPENDITURES

TOTAL

GENERAL FUND

SEWER FUND

WATER FUND

General Government







Legislative

28,908

28,908





Executive

41,433

41,433





Elections

4,745

4,745





Financial Administration

167,774

167,774





Law

57,500

57,500





Planning & Zoning

262,326

262,326





General Services

265,176

265,176





Other

431,192

431,192



Public Safety







Police Department

2,869,171

2,869,171





Fire Department

185,000

185,000





Other

49,995

49,995



Public Works







Streets, Highways and Alleys

3,951,028

3,951,028





Sanitation & Waste Removal

872,526

872,526





Recreation & Parks

1,463,431

1,463,431





Other - Autos, Trucks & Equip

257,338

257,338



CDBG

69,162

69,162



Pension, Insurances, Etc.

1,893,121

1,893,121



Water/Sewer System Operation:







Source of Supply

313,200



313,200



Treatment, etc.

1,472,900


943,200

529,700



Transmission & Distribution

614,800


278,300

336,500



Customer Account

98,008


49,004

49,004



Administrative & General

1,737,895


836,101

901,794



Bond/Loan/MWQFA Loan Interest

107,784


50,392

57,392



Amoritization Bond Issue Expense

4,704


2,459

2,245



Deprecation

1,266,000


834,000

432,000



Bond Principle Redemption

296,785


151,292

145,493



Carrol County Septage Facility

185,000


185,000




Capital Items (machinery, Equip., Etc.)

2,930,500


1,504,000

1,426,500



Other

28,000


6,000

22,000








TOTALS

21,925,402

12,869,826

4,839,748

4,215,828

Friday, June 21, 2002

20020620 New EPA Reports Confirm Waste-to-Energy's Clean Performance

New EPA Reports Confirm Waste-to-Energy's Clean Performance

http://www.nmwda.org/index.asp

Washington, D.C. (June 20, 2002) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released data confirming greater than 90% reductions in organic, metal, and acid gas emissions from waste-to-energy facilities nationwide as a result of the industry's compliance with the Clean Air Act standards.

"EPA's new emissions inventory is proof that the Clean Air Act results in significant environmental benefits for industry and the public it serves," said Maria Zannes, President of the Integrated Waste Services Association (IWSA), a national trade group representing the waste-to-energy industry and municipalities served by the technology.

The emissions inventory and accompanying reports released today by U.S. EPA are based on actual compliance test data of the nation's 66 large-unit waste-to-energy plants following a $1 billion upgrade in pollution control technology required by federal "Maximum Achievable Control Technology" (MACT) air standards promulgated in 1995 for large unit municipal waste combustors.

"America's cities that look to waste-to-energy as a solution to garbage disposal have done a tremendous job working with the U.S. EPA and industry to bring about this environmental success," said Zannes. "The reports show that waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity from trash represent one of the cleanest sources of power and safest methods of waste disposal in this country. The reports also show that modern pollution control equipment works very well to keep emissions very low."

More than 30 million people in 24 states rely upon 66 large-unit waste-to-energy plants that convert nearly 80,000 tons of trash each day into enough power to meet the needs of 2 million homes. Waste-to-energy technology results in avoiding the release of 11 million metric tons of greenhouse gases each year into the air, according to a new study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will be published this summer in Air & Waste Management magazine.

The EPA reports show that dioxin emissions from waste-to-energy facilities dropped by more than 99%; lead emissions by 91%; mercury emissions by 95%; particulate matter emissions by 90%; hydrogen chloride emissions by 94%; cadmium emissions by 93%; sulfur dioxide emissions by 87%; and emissions of nitrogen oxides decreased by 18% due to retrofitting the industry with the most modern pollution control technology. Mercury emissions nationwide represent less than three percent of the national inventory of man-made mercury emissions, and dioxin emissions from waste-to-energy facilities represent less than one percent of the nation's inventory of dioxin sources.

Communities with waste-to-energy plants recycle at a rate of 33% as compared with the national average of 28%. Waste-to-energy facilities in the U.S. annually recover for recycling nearly 800,000 tons of ferrous metals and more than 900,000 tons of glass, metal, plastics, batteries, ash and yard waste.

Waste-to-energy reduces trash volume by about 90%, resulting in a 90% decrease in the amount of land required for garbage disposal. Studies of ash landfill conducted by government agencies and universities over the past decade show that leachate is like salty water, with a metals content that would meet drinking water standards.

To Visit the Integrated Waste Services Association (IWSA)
click on:
http://www.wte.org

Saturday, May 18, 2002

20020517 Bad Times Supervirus Warning Alert Caution and Advisory

Bad Times Supervirus Warning Alert Caution and Advisory

May 17th, 2002

If you receive an e-mail entitled “Bad times”, delete it IMMEDIATELY. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty.

It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.

It demagnetizes the strips on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD’s you attempt to play.

It will program your phone auto-dial to call only 900 numbers. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.

IT WILL CAUSE YOUR TOILET TO FLUSH WHILE YOU ARE SHOWERING.

It will drink ALL your beer. FOR GOD’S SAKE, ARE YOU LISTENING??

It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye.

It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings, which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences.

If the “Bad times” message opened in a Windows 95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.

It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows. It will also refill your skim milk with whole milk.

******* WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN. *******

And if you don’t send this to 5000 people in 20 seconds you’ll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, sending sparks that will ignite the person nearest you.

Send to everyone...

In case you are a blonde, this is a joke.

Rec’d 200205