JP Allen Kerr sends along a memo on Pulaski County budgeting for 2009. He says all departments that submit budgets at or below 2008 numbers will get an instant seal of approval.

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, because this is a far more orderly approach than in evidence in the county’s glory years of runaway deficit spending, but do you think it’s possible that there might be one or two segments of county government that had a little fat LAST year? Is there not a single operation in the courthouse or administrative office building without a piece of dead wood or two? Not naming names, mind you.

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Whatever. Outlook for pay increases is dim.

 

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