Niles department heads will have to cut workers, state auditor's rep says

NILES

The state-appointed financial supervisor said what city leaders and deficit commission members have been reluctant to admit: Some city employees will lose their jobs in 2016.

“The [2016] budget will be based on a 16 percent reduction in appropriations and for some departments that looks like it will be people,” said Tim Lintner of the state auditor’s office.

Lintner made the comments Wednesday to the deficit commission overseeing Niles spending. The city has been in fiscal emergency since October 2014.

“I just don’t see how some departments can make it without cutting people, especially police and fire,” Lintner said. “They’re going to take the hit as well. It’s going to be up to the department heads.”

Read more about the situation in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.