SNOW HILL – Cuts in public safety, roads and education among other areas are expected to help balance Worcester County’s $189 million budget for the coming year.
The Worcester County Commissioners began their line-by-line review of the FY 2017 budget this week, making it about halfway through the extensive document in a work session Tuesday. The commissioners reviewed budget cuts made by a staff committee and added their own in an effort to reduce what started as a $6 million deficit.
While the commissioners were quick to make cuts to most areas of the budget, they agreed that the county’s roads were going to require significantly more funding in the future.
“These roads are failing fast,” Commissioner Merrill Lockfaw said. “You have a couple more winters and you’re going to have chunks of road coming out everywhere.”
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I wonder how much the "Worcester County Education Foundation" slush fund is up?
ReplyDeleteTake some money from the recreation department. They only serve the people in Snow Hill. We don't have recreation in Berlin anymore since the Snow Hill rec center was built. What a joke.
ReplyDeleteraise parking fees at the inlet to $100 an hour - problem solved. or maybe build a casino on every street corner. that should work, right?
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