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Commissioners cut $3.5 million
The sheriff’s office, courts and commissioners will face the biggest cuts as Butler County commissioners work to patch a $4 million budget deficit for the remainder of 2010.
Commissioners agreed today, June 17, on cutting $3.5 million from the county’s budget and dipping into reserves for $500,000.
This includes nearly $1.8 million cut from the sheriff’s office, $315,174 from commissioners, $303,522 from the prosecutors office and $296,600 from county courts.
What specifically will be cut is still uncertain. Commissioners held off on original plans to pull the money out of personnel accounts countywide — Office of Budget and Management Director Pete Landrum estimates personnel accounts for more than 93 percent of the county’s discretionary spending — until they meet with each office.
This followed complaints from Domestic Relations Judge Sharon Kennedy that she can’t legally move money around in her budget to adjust to the cut, as commissioners suggested.
“I can’t get there without closing the court,” Kennedy said of the $110,000 cut facing her office.
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones hasn’t said what he would cut. But Sgt. Jeff Gebhart, president of the union representing deputies, worried about additional cuts to road patrols.
In addition to eight road deputies laid off this year, Gebhart said the sheriff’s office has cut more than half a dozen more deputies through attrition.
“It’s going to be detrimental to the safety of the citizens, and the deputy sheriffs in Butler County.” Gebhart said. “It’s getting dangerous, especially at a time when…violent crime is rising literally by the week in Butler County.”
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By mart
June 18, 2010 12:59 PM | Link to this
Why not get rid of all double dippers?? They have income. Laying off all the deputies and lay people who only have this one paycheck is irresponsible and being a chicken__ to not let go of friends and family double dippers. No wonder the county is in such bad shape, to many people getting free money!