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Trumbull County commissioners schedule midyear budget review amid shortfall concerns and a circulated auditor-office letter
Summary
Commissioners discussed a projected midyear shortfall, scheduled budget- and senior-advisory meetings, and pushed back on a leaflet circulated by auditor-office employees urging residents to press commissioners for budgets.
Trumbull County commissioners on July 16 discussed a midyear budget review after hearing from department leaders that payroll and maintenance accounts are running short and that the county’s requests for funds significantly exceed expected resources.
The conversation followed reports from department heads and the auditor’s office that the total requests submitted for the upcoming budget cycle exceed available funds. “You have $71,000,000 in request and you only have 64,000,000,” a commissioner said during the meeting, underscoring a funding gap commissioners said will require prioritization.
Why it matters: Commissioners said the county cannot appropriate more money than it has and urged departments to cooperate as the board prepares a midyear reallocation of funds. County leaders also faced internal pushback…
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