Wake commissioners try to relieve budget woes
The Wake County Board of Commissioners gathered Saturday to discuss how to deal with a projected $23 million deficit for this fiscal year and a smaller budget for the following year that begins July 1.
Posted — UpdatedWake County Manager David Cooke suggested delaying construction on the new Wake County Justice Center for another year.
“The revenue streams aren’t there to support the debt so we don’t want to incur the debt right now,” Cooke said at the retreat held at the Marbles Kids Museum.
“We don’t need 10 percent across the board to balance next year’s budget, based on what we know right now, but we need to know what those options are,” Cooke said.
If the sheriff’s office cuts 10 percent from its budget, Sheriff Donnie Harrison said 61 deputies and 48 other employees, including detention officers and investigators, would be let go. The county’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement program would also be cut, Harrison said.
“We’re doing everything we can to keep from cutting personnel and I want my staff to understand that and the citizens of Wake County to understand that,” Harrison said.
“The citizens are already being hard hit,” Brown said.
Cooke will present his recommended 2010 budget to commissioners in May.
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