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County now looking toward FY2012

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Mike Buffington

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Friday, April 15. 2011

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Barrow County officials now project that the county will be in the red around $500,000 this year after having been in the red $408,000 last year.

Now the focus is turning to FY2012 in which the county faces increasing debt payments that could keep the county in red ink again.

After reviewing last year’s financial data and this year’s projections, CFO Rose Kisaalita said the county now has to focus on FY2012, which begins Oct. 1.

In response to questions posed by the BOC at a March 28 budget meeting, Kisaalita said going to a four-day weekly work schedule with employees working only 32 hours a week would save about $1.4 million. However, not all offices may be closed on weekdays, and not all departments could go to four-day work weeks, she said.

Kisaalita also reported that if the 27 employees eligible to retire chose to do so, and they were not replaced, it would save about $1.5 million.

She said she also was asked by BOC Chairman Danny Yearwood to look at possible savings in the current fiscal year from either one or two furlough days per month. If all employees, including those in public safety positions, were furloughed one day per month, it would save $313,000; for two days per month, the savings would be about $627,000 by the end of this fiscal year, she said.

District 3 Commissioner Steve Worley said he thinks department managers and elected officials should be told not to submit new operating budgets for FY2012, but to submit only capital spending requests of at least $5,000.

Worley said it may be that the BOC would simply appropriate a dollar amount to each department and then ask the managers and elected officials to work with the Finance Department to develop individual budgets within those amounts.

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#1 Anonymous on 04/15/11 at 04:41 PM [Reply]

Kisaalita also reported that if the 27 employees eligible to retire chose to do so, and they were not replaced, it would save about $1.5 million.

Sounds to me like the county needs to take a HARD stance and give these 27 employees two options: 1) Retire 2)be laid off

#1.1 Tammy on 04/17/11 at 09:13 AM [Reply]

agreed. That has been happening every quarter for the past couple of years where I work (public sector). The only issue is the remaining work gets piled onto the remaining workers who keep a job. One wonders which employee is "luckiest": the one retired/terminated or the one left with all the work, no raises and more work trickling in...

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