Pope County Budget Falls Short

By: Import User

Updated: January 7, 2009

Pope County officials are projecting a significant shortfall in spendable revenue for 2005. The Pope County Quorum Court now must figure out how to cut more than One million dollars off a proposed 8.4 million dollar general fund budget. Estimates show the county will only be able to collect Seven-point-three million in revenues. Employees have already been told they won`t see any raises or departmental increases.

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