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Community Services outlines cuts, leverage and risks if property-tax revenue falls
Summary
Director Brad Burbal presented a Community Services budget workshop showing decades of constrained general-fund growth, program leverage of federal/state grants, and possible service cuts if proposed property-tax reductions reduce county revenue by tens of millions.
Valuchia County's Community Services director told the council on April 21 that the department has operated with fiscal restraint for years, leverages substantial state and federal funding, and faces significant program risk if property-tax reform materially reduces county revenues.
Brad Burbal said the department's general-fund discretionary authority totals roughly $20.3 million within a $160 million departmental budget and that the department currently operates at lean staffing…
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