Small Communities May Be Able To Save Their Revenue Offices
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Small communities around the state can keep
revenue offices now slated to close next month -- IF they`re
willing to pay the price. That`s the word today from state finance
director Richard Weiss, who says communities can keep their revenue
offices from closing December First if they`re willing to pay the
rent, utilities and janitorial bills locally. Weiss says the state
would pay for salaries, supplies and computer lines. Thirty-eight
local revenue offices are slated to close around the state in a
move the state finance office says will save about six hundred
thousand dollars annually. Some rural legislators say the savings
would NOT be worth the inconvenience that closing the offices would
impose on taxpayers.
