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Van Zandt County commissioners agree to deeper road-and-bridge cuts, precincts pledge uneven reductions
Summary
Commissioners discussed cutting the road-and-bridge allocation to close a roughly $1.2 million budget shortfall, with commissioners from better-funded precincts offering larger reductions and commissioners with worse road conditions asking for smaller cuts or to remain at last year—s levels.
Van Zandt County commissioners on Thursday agreed to reduce road-and-bridge spending to help close a countywide budget shortfall, with commissioners from precincts that reported stronger fund balances offering larger cuts and commissioners with poorer road conditions proposing smaller reductions or keeping their prior-year budgets.
The court—s discussion focused on a roughly $500,000 gap between projected revenue and the county—s road-and-bridge requests and on a broader $1.2 million amount the court said it needed to shave from the draft budget to reach balance. "We were half a million over," one commissioner said, noting total road-and-bridge budget requests exceeded estimated revenues. The judge told the court the county—s overall work had driven the draft countywide shortfall down from about $1.9 million to about…
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