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Lebanon County treasurer warns state budget impasse could deplete reserves by January
Summary
Treasurer Laura Tobias told commissioners the county has used roughly $6 million of set-aside cash, is owed about $11–12 million by the state, and could exhaust key reserves and need to borrow against its taxing authority by January if the state budget remains unsettled.
Treasurer Laura Tobias told the Lebanon County Board of Commissioners on Thursday that the county has been operating without a state budget since July and faces mounting fiscal pressure.
"I think we can make it at least through the end of the year but that it's gonna get really, really scary," Tobias said, adding the county has used about $6,000,000 of set-aside cash and is owed roughly $11–12,000,000 by the state.
Tobias said the county has…
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