Finance committee grapples with a roughly $400,000 budget shortfall
Committee members heard that Lee County faces about a $400,000 shortfall under current assumptions and discussed a mix of options: insurance changes, targeted cuts, temporary use of reserves, and timing of union negotiations. Staff outlined possible transfers, projected increases and unknowns such as union talks and the highway facility financing.
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The finance committee was told the county is about $400,000 short in the proposed budget for the coming year under a status-quo assumption. Chair prefaced the new-business discussion by saying, "as we stand right now, we're $400,000 in deficit," and finance staff Reid Acree explained that figure came from modeling a status-quo budget and that further tweaks may be possible but would not entirely close the gap.
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