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County mulls budget options after sheriff puts cuts on table
Commissioners met this morning to talk about Butler County’s budget crisis. Here is what came out of that:
Revised revenue estimates and last-minute concessions by other offices have given Butler County commissioners options in shoring up a $6.6 million budget deficit without a tax hike or political showdown.
That’s according to county Management and Budget Director Pete Landrum, who outlined options before commissioners this morning, Dec. 14.
Here is a copy of Landrum’s presentation:
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Analysis:
Commissioners seemed most receptive to a plan that includes Sheriff Richard K. Jones slashing his budget roughly $1 million and raising his expected revenue for prisoner boarding by $600,000.
Landrum said the sheriff offered this willingly — despite previously refusing a roughly $2.5 million budget reduction, fearing impacts to public safety.
The county is also counting on bringing in roughly $200,000 more than expected this year, and taking in between $600,000 and $1.8 million more than original estimates next year.
Landrum said these are “conservative” estimates, and still leave next year’s revenues below this year’s.
Commission President Donald Dixon said he favors the plan that calls for the sheriff’s concessions, increased revenue estimates and skimming off roughly $900,000 from the county’s cash reserves.
“It keeps our cash balance at where we wanted it, and I think it also brings in all the officeholders and makes all the officeholders participants,” he said.
This amounts to a total budget reduction of nearly $2.6 million next year, leaving the county’s general fund — decreased due to poor sales tax and investment revenues — at $85.3 million.
Commissioners are scheduled to make a final decision and adopt a budget Monday, Dec. 21.
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By cent21
December 16, 2009 1:47 PM | Link to this
Had to laugh at the word “skimming” being used with all that word conjures up. What belt notch is the court or board of elections at right now?
By Earnest T Bass
December 19, 2009 1:29 PM | Link to this
You can be assured that Lover Boy Donnie isn’t going to allow cuts in the Board of Elections.
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