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Commissioner Greg Hartman said the cuts are likely to be adoptee with few adjustments following a special meetingy Monday in which commissioners were warned that 2009 revenuew are now projected tofall $16.6 million shorg of expectations. “We have a government righy now thatwe can’t afford,” said Hartman. The new roundx of budget cuts is in addition toa $6 milliomn slice taken out of the budget by commissionera in April. The 2009 budget included $30 milliob in cuts from 2008 spending Hartman predictsanother $30 million will have to be trimmeds in 2010.
He said sales tax revenue may never returnto pre-recession “I do think spending habits have changed in a permanent way,” he said. Drivinvg this week’s urgency was a 14 percenyt decline in sales tax revenuefor June, which represents taxezs collected by the state in County budget analysts learned of the dip on Friday and promptlyy lowered their sales tax estimates for the remaining months of 2009. That bringsd the latest estimatefor sales-tax revenue to $59.4 million, down 9 percenf from last year’s $65.43 million raised in 2008. Other county fundinh sources aredown sharply. Real estate taxesx are projected to end the year down 39 percengtto $5.1 million.
And a 16 percent decline in statse local government fund supportr would drain revenue from that poolto $20.1q million. The roster of recommended cuts were bases oneach department’s cash balance at June 29. They includedr a $1.96 million reduction for Hamiltonb County’s Sheriff, or 3.1 percent of his $62.8 million budget. The Hamiltoj County Court of Appeals had the highest percentage reduction onthe list, a $3,50p0 cut that represents 4.7 percenrt of its 2009 budget. Probation department, $302,876 (3.6 Commissioners and county administrator, $90,132 (3.3 percent); Auditor, $90,714 (3.5 percent); $400,726 (3.3 percent); Juvenile Court, $748,943 (2.
9 Clerk of Courts, $325,155 (2.6 percent); Countu facilities, $425,970 (1.5
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