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Butler County’s busted budget - a breakdown
Response to “J”: I use Scribd to upload documents, and I gather they can be rather slow to download if you have a slow connection. You may be able to read the documents on the Scribd site better. If you click on the link above each document, that should take you to where the document is saved on the Scribd site. Let me know if that helps.
Original post:
As promised in an earlier analysis of Butler County’s hemorrhaging budget, here are the details about the shortfall and proposed budget cuts.
First, we have an analysis by Butler County Finance Director Pete Landrum of how the county got into the mess it’s in. This report estimates the county’s 2009 revenues at $84.2 million, or $9.5 million below 2008 revenues.
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Next, we have revenue projections for 2010. This is the letter sent by commissioners to all elected officeholders and department heads. It projects revenues in 2010 at $82.6 million, but expenses at $89.2 million. Thus a $6.6 million deficit.
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Here’s how commissioners suggest the county make up that $6.6 million deficit. This is a departmental breakdown of proposed budgets, including budgets for elected officeholders, after an 11 percent across the board cut.
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In the above document, you’ll notice that not all budgets were treated equally. This is because commissioners have determined certain line items are either grant funded or mandated by law, so can’t be cut. They cut only those things that didn’t fit that criteria. Here is a list of the things that did fit that criteria, so were left alone.
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Any thoughts on all this?
Permalink | Comments (3) | Post your comment | Categories: Butler County, County Commission, County budget, Economy
Comments
By j
October 21, 2009 11:43 AM | Link to this
Mr. Sweigart I think the reporting you do is excellent, unfortunately I have never been able to see any of the documents you post. Not sure what the issue with them is.
By clean house
October 21, 2009 4:31 PM | Link to this
So if Prosecutor Robin Piper is the County’s atty, then why do the commissioners have their own atty Gary Sheets warming an extra chair for nothing besides being responsible for many of those bogus contracts that slipped him with Williams initials ??
By Bill
October 22, 2009 10:27 AM | Link to this
My question is, why should departments that have already cut their budgets (Domestic Relations, Auditor, and Treasurer to name 3) have to shoulder the same burden as those that have cut little or nothing? (Sheriff/Prosecutor) Is the message the Commissioners are sending to hold out on budget cuts until the very end, that way you won’t have to cut as much?