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Article: Personnel, service cuts on table for 2010 Cutting jobs, hours, weed harvesting are options in budget
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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By JIM STEVENS
Village of Pewaukee - Furloughs, cutting back on hours,
eliminating lake weed harvesting and cutting personnel are some of
the options on the table as the Village Board tackles a 2010 budget
that currently has a $346,000 shortfall.
Village staff was directed by the board Sept. 28 to come up with
5 percent in reductions. However, those numbers came up short since
a large portion of the village's budget is not under the control of
the board.
Staff came up with $269,146 or 4.3 percent worth of cuts from the
2009 general fund budget of $6,232,720. The 5-percent mark was
$311,636. The 2010 draft budget comes in at $148,753 more than the
2009 budget, or an increase of 2.4 percent.
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