Budget Season 1
Wednesday, February 24, 2010Posted by
Reflindo
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Friday, February 19th
Due to an ongoing sagging economy and an overall bleak budget projection for the city, we were directed to close an unprecedented $12.4 million deficit for the upcoming Fiscal Year 2010-11 and submit a balanced proposal to the mayor by February 19.
To put that into proper perspective, our department receives a total of about $35 million dollars in General Fund support from the city each year. Cutting that by roughly 30 percent would have tremendous impacts on our operations and ultimately our services to the public, especially in light of the fact that we took an almost equally huge hit in last year’s budget, to the tune of $11.4 million.
After years of cuts to our budget, albeit nowhere near the cuts we’ve experienced in the last two years, our department operates on an already thin crew of laborers, gardeners, custodians and recreation professionals.
Still, everyone is feeling the pinch of this current economic climate, and as you’ll read in coming blog entries, we’re going to have to change the way we do business to survive.
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