1st county budget workshop: schools, DSS, EMS
Tomorrow is the first budget workshop for the 2008-09 Guilford County budget, and the commissioners are largely mum on what they plan to add or cut.
Yet all the commissioners have been on the board long enough to have some familiarity with how the budget process works. However, many board members say they want updates from departments before they go out and start makin' sausage.
Tomorrow they'll hear from Guilford County Schools, GTCC, emergency services and the Department of Social Services.
Schools already received a cut in this year's $15.8 million funding request. The budget from County Manager David McNeill includes added positions for DSS areas in daycare, foster care and mental health, but those are funded with state and federal money.
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