Thursday, March 26, 2009
YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners plan to adopt a full-year 2009 general fund budget Tuesday, and it will likely be substantially below last year’s spending level.
When the commissioners meet at 10 a.m. that day in the county courthouse basement, they’ll probably adopt a budget totaling about $62 million, Commissioner John A. McNally IV said today. General fund spending last year was $67.5 million.
The general fund is the county’s main operating fund, upon which the sheriff’s and prosecutor’s offices, courts, 911 center and board of elections depend.
Commissioners will be enacting the full-year budget at the last minute. State law requires its adoption by the end of March.
Due to uncertainties in county revenues, the commissioners in December adopted only a temporary first quarter budget for this year, which totaled $16,117,448.
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