3/17/2010
DAVID CLOUSTON
A projected drop in revenue of more than a million dollars in the 2010 Saline County budget has county Administrator Rita Deister warning department heads to prepare for cuts in their 2011 budgets.
Those cuts could be about 7.5 percent in the county’s general operations fund and for large departments, such as the sheriff’s office. Deister brief the department heads at a meeting on Wednesday. County Commissioner John Reynolds also was at the meeting.
“Keep in mind these are all very preliminary numbers,” Deister said.
Deister gave the department heads a list of budget targets for 2011 showing how much less money each department would receive, with cuts ranging from 2 to 7.5 percent.
The proposed cuts means services to rural residents that are already stretched thin are potentially going to be further affected after the budget is passed by county commission in August.


For more on this story, see Thursday's Salina Journal.

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