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By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Spartanburg County budget planners are dealing with yet another significant reduction in revenue from the state as administrators try to craft a budget for fiscal year 2011-2012.
County Administrator Glenn Breed said Friday that the county has received a 12-percent cut in its revenue from the state amounting to about $1 million and taking the county back to 1996 levels in aid to local government funding from Columbia.
“It hurts and trying to work around it when you’re already in a bare-bones situation – it’s really getting tough,” Breed said.
He added that revenue from the state is the county’s second largest revenue category behind property taxes. He said with this year’s cut that revenue from the state amounts to about $9 million, a significant cut from the more than $15 million the county received before the recession hit four years ago.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Spartanburg County News.
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