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Montgomery Council Approves $32.3 Million In Mid-year Operating Budget Reductions |
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| ROCKVILLE, Md., December 14, 2010—The Montgomery County Council today unanimously approved a mid-year operating budget savings plan that will reduce spending for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 by $32.3 million. The savings plan will help address a projected $300 million budget gap in Fiscal Year 2012 caused chiefly by a sharp decline in projected revenue. On Dec. 2, County Executive Isiah Leggett proposed a $36.2 million savings plan. The Council’s six committees reviewed the plan and recommended approval of most items but disapproval of several items totaling $3.9 million. The Council supported the Executive’s proposed savings for Montgomery County Public Schools ($19.2 million), Montgomery College ($1.0 million) and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission ($0.2 million). The Council reluctantly approved many other proposed savings, such as reduction of $632,000 to eliminate 21 filled administrative positions in Local Fire and Rescue Departments. Among the Council’s actions that differed from the Executive’s proposals were the following: - Do not cut nine police officers in the schools (School Resource Officers) mid-year, but instead manage vacancies department-wide to achieve the same savings amount of $518,650. - Do not stop the energy rebate program for low-income households on Jan. 1, 2011 to save $239,750. - Do not eliminate 11 ambulances in the Fire and Rescue Service to save $3,560,000. - Do not reduce spending for pedestrian signal timing (to save $50,000) and road patching materials (to save $200,000), but instead save $253,000 by deleting planning for a road project. - Do not reduce meal service at three senior centers to save $23,400. “This savings plan is a down payment on the $300 million budget gap confronting us next year,” said Council President Valerie Ervin. “It includes many items that we are very reluctant to include, but this is the fiscal reality we now confront. We will face more difficult decisions in the months ahead.” # # # # |
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