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Butler County’s $85.3 M budget - An overview
“It’s been one heck of a year, 2009,” Butler County Commissioner Gregory Jolivette mused after commissioners approved a much-wrangled-over 2010 general fund budget Monday, Dec. 21.
The budget totals $85.3 million — down from $94.7 million in 2008 largely because of recession — and includes $2.6 million in cuts and a $900,000 dip into the county’s shrinking cash reserves.
Here is an overview of the 2010 budget in a presentation given to commissioners today by Office of Management and Budget Director Pete Landrum (Option 2.5 referenced in the presentation is the budget solution the county picked):
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Analysis:
Commissioners heaped credit on county staff and other officeholders who came to the table with concessions, especially Sheriff Richard K. Jones. Jones, whose $23 million budget is the county’s largest, proposed $1 million in 11th hour cuts and promised $600,000 in prisoner-boarding revenue to close the gap.
This followed a period of uncertainty with Jones, local judges, the county prosecutor and others saying further budget cuts would endanger public safety. County officials say criminal justice accounts for 63.5 percent of the total budget.
“In the spirit of cooperation when everybody is pulling together and working toward the same goals, it makes it easier,” said Commission President Donald Dixon.
Management and Budget Director Pete Landrum said the budget makes assumptions: especially that 2009 will the rock bottom for the recession.
Of the options Landrum submitted to commissioners to shore up the budget, the one they picked was the “most optimistic” option, Landrum said, including $640,000 more in sales and property transfer taxes than earlier estimates.
But, he said, it still falls roughly $500,000 below 2009 ending levels.
“Further budget reductions will be required…by mid-year if the events do not occur as projected or alotted,” Landrum said in his presentation.
“Hopefully, 2010 will be a lot better than 2009,” said Jolivette.
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