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| Fresno Sheriff's Dept Facing Budget Cuts |
| By abclocal.go.com |
| Published: 06/18/2009 |
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Fresno Sheriff's Department Facing Budget Cuts By Liz Harrison Fresno, CA (KFSN) -- Fresno County supervisors are looking at taking some drastic measures to balance their budget for the next fiscal year. And since the sheriff's department accounts for more than half of the county's general fund, supervisors are getting tough with Sheriff Margaret Mims. Fresno County supervisors spent four hours Wednesday morning going through Sheriff Margaret Mims budget proposal. Line by line supervisors questioned her expenditures. There's a three and a half million dollar difference between what the sheriff says she needs and what the county says she can have. Fresno County Supervisor Susan Anderson said, "There are some changes that she could make; reducing the number of training hours, reducing the dependency on using overtime by using extra help employees that would help us to reduce our costs so that we wouldn't have to do that." Sheriff Mims says her department hasn't hired anyone in a year and a half. Now she's looking at laying people off. Mims said, "The county general plan calls for two deputies per thousand residents. We're at 1.3 per thousand. And we lost 78 positions last year. And depending on the budget that's approved this week, we may lose more. So we're going backwards." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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