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County looks to save money

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Walter Geiger
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Tuesday, June 28. 2011
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After meeting with constitutional officers Monday to discuss possible furlough days, the county was left with a little over $1 million deficit after cutting spending to $8,300,231. Estimated revenue for 2012 is $7,346,138. Possible layoffs were added to the table.

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#1 Anonymous on 06/28/11 at 05:28 AM
Again...cut 10% off each department budget. Then let each Dept. head make the necessary cuts. No need for furloughs or pay reductions.
#2 Anonymous on 06/28/11 at 01:52 PM
Yes. Next year, If Obama is bad for the economy. We can cut 4H and Public Works. Sheriffs and Jail cuts.
#3 me on 06/28/11 at 02:26 PM
Stop spending money on stupids stuff thats all that is and we will save a whole lot!
#4 Anonymous on 06/28/11 at 03:06 PM
Cut 1 employee in each Dept. no one is any better than another.
#5 Anonymous on 06/28/11 at 03:31 PM
what do you mean IF? he's the worst thing to happen to this country ever!!!
#6 iggle on 06/28/11 at 03:41 PM
Give the DoT money back and sell Sommers Field to Gordon College. That will generate instant revenue towards the shortfall. Plus, more revenue will be created when they build on it. And the site will actually be useful then!
#7 Anonymous on 06/28/11 at 08:39 PM
How about cutting the $38,000 for "Summer Feeding" program.
#8 Annon on 06/28/11 at 08:41 PM
Always easy to say cut, but when they havent raised the millage rate in 10 years and things in life keep going up like (water, electric, fuel, supplies in general). So think if you havent changed a thing in your household and you have troubles making ends meet, what do you think it is like when a business is doing the same as home. The Chairman has stated from day one that he will never raise taxes but the county is in the red and borrows every year in February when the budget just went into effect on January 1. So tell me how is the county able to borrow money for 11 months which pretty much means they are broke within 60 days after the new year and you cant borrow from peter to pay paul. Go do your homework everyone and seee the truth of everything.
#9 Anonymous on 06/29/11 at 05:11 AM
It is even easier to say cut, when the budget has grown over 50% in the past 5 years.
#10 Anonymous on 06/29/11 at 08:38 AM
Sounds like socialism when you ask about selling Summers Field. That belongs to the city has nothing to do with the county debt.
Let's sell your cow and payoff part of the water debt.
#11 HERMAINATOR on 06/29/11 at 09:03 AM
THE MILLAGE MAY NOT HAVE GONE UP BUT THE TAXES SURE HAVE DUE TO THE JACKED UP ASSESSMENTS BY THE LAST TAX ASSESSOR BEFORE MRS.HADDOCK. THE PARTIES OVER, CUT THE WASTEFULL SPENDING BY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, IT IS THE ULTIMATE VILLIAN IN THIS .
#12 Dana on 06/29/11 at 12:50 PM
The budget increases 50% and #6 thinks they have not raised taxes because the millage rate did not change. THERE WAS A REVALUATION AND NO REDUCTION IN THE TAX RATE! THIS IS A TAX INCREASE!!!!!
#13 Isaiah 45:22 on 06/29/11 at 12:55 PM
When things are going good, people tend to over spend and forget that what goes up must come down. When things are ample, Government leaders begin to create unnecessary jobs for their friends. They pay these friends these exuberant salaries and then when the bubble burst they can’t lay off their friends, no, they have to do one of two things:

1. Layoff someone else whom they don’t like or has suddenly become expendable.
2. Raise taxes

In the book of Genesis, we learn that God allowed Joseph to see into the future. Joseph saw that there would be a time of plenty and a time of insufficiency. Wisely, Joseph stored up and when the skinny cows ate the fat cows, all was not lost. Leaders are paid to see into the future and determine the outlook. When the times were good, no one stored up and now that there is no abundance the people are suffering because there are no store houses to open. In fact, there are store hoses but there is not grain in them.

During the drought a few years ago, a city in North Georgia asked its citizens to cut back on their water usage. When the people responded, the city realized that they were no longer bringing in the revenue they planned for. So, what did the city do, they raised the water rates!! Rather than find ways to cut back and thus help the people, the people became a means to an end.

Sir Francis Bacon said, “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

When will the people learn the tactics of the people they think have their best interest at hand? When will they realize who their true enemy is?
#14 annon on 07/08/11 at 03:44 PM
Each dept. knows they can reduce spending
and perks they give themselves at the dept.
expense. Cut those luxeries out and it would
save a lot.
#15 Anonymous on 07/08/11 at 07:33 PM
We sure had to pay that Fire & EMS tax to bring out some of the debt. I knew by mid year we would hear the same thing. Someone needs to take a Mony Management Class and learn to manage the countys debt a little bit better. We citizens pay our taxes and still hear they need money. Time for a change
#16 No-Name on 07/09/11 at 08:43 AM
Why stop at cutting only $800,000 ? Us tax payers deserve a break! I say go ahead and cut $2,000,000 off the budget. DO WITHOUT!!! Just like most of us have.
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