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Baton Rouge finance director outlines $1.156 billion budget and proposed workforce cuts
Summary
Finance Director Angie Savoie told the Metro Council the proposed 2026 budget totals $1.156 billion, with a $332 million general fund (28%). She proposed deleting 234 positions and warned that workforce reductions and lower reserves will slow public-facing services.
Angie Savoie, finance director for the City-Parish, told the Metro Council at a budget hearing that the parish—s proposed 2026 budget totals $1.156 billion and that only about 28 percent of that amount — roughly $332 million — is undedicated general fund money supporting operations.
Savoie said salary and benefits account for about 71 percent of general fund spending and that the parish has cut 422 positions over the last four years. The 2026 proposal would delete 234 positions, of which Savoie said 213 were already frozen. "We are reducing…
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