The Searcy Sanitation Department is seeking an increase of $155,046.53 for its budget for next year.

The increase, requested at the Committee of the Whole meeting Dec. 17, is due to needing a new leaf truck; single-axle, rear-loader trash truck; boom truck; side-arm truck; new dumpsters; hirings; and pay increases for employees, according to Sanitation Superintendent Terry Rutherford.

Rutherford met with Mayor Kyle Osborne and City Clerk/Treasurer Jerry Morris before the budget was proposed.