Mahoning recorder: 'I'll make it work.'

YOUNGSTOWN — Saying his office is frugal, Mahoning County Recorder Ronald Gerberry is asking the county commissioners for no increase in his general fund appropriation for next year and offering to turn over $186,000 in accumulated filing fees to help the commissioners fund the sheriff’s department.

Gerberry is asking for $617,653 from the county’s general fund for 2007, the same amount the commissioners granted him for this year. Gerberry said he isn’t seeking an increase in general fund monies because he plans to supplement them as needed with money accumulated in the separate filing fee account, which will pay for shelving and computer technology.

“If they would give me the same budget, I will make it work,” he said in an interview.