Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Commissioners get briefing Tuesday. Public hearing planned for December.
Closing more than three-fourths of a $35-million revenue shortfall, Gwinnett County officials Tuesday rolled out a spending plan of roughly $1.3 billion for fiscal year 2012. The proposal represents a 12.4 percent decrease over the current budget. It includes no pay raises, no new employees, and no planned furloughs. "In some ways, this is the easiest budget I have dealt with," Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash, also a former county administrator, said at county headquarters in Lawrenceville. "That may sound counter-intuitive (with the county's decreasing tax base). Almost consistently, there were no requests for additional funding." The budget total provides for the use of $5.2 million in reserve funds, but Nash said that it is county …
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Government dealing with change and challenges in many areas of the county.
The Gwinnett County budget review sessions are done, and now county leaders will begin the process of finalizing the Fiscal Year 2012 spending plan. Dealing with a $30 million revenue shortfall will be difficult, but the sessions also showed a county that still continues to deal with strong growth and change. Some highlights from the sessions: -- The county's senior population continues to grow. By the year 2020, it will exceed 200,000 people and will be larger than the population of school age children (5-19) for the first time. The county has delivered 91,830 home delivered meals and 59,837 senior center meals to date in 2011. -- The county's Community Activities department plans a solar blanket pilot project for the Mountain Park pool …
Monday, September 12, 2011
Officials planning five-day, 40-hour week sometime in 4Q.
Get ready for the Peachtree Corners branch of the Gwinnett Public Library branch to be open fewer days and hours this fall. GCPL officials described the changes Monday as part of the budget-review process with county government leaders in Lawrenceville. The plan includes a "non-tax revenue" plan that could raise $4 million annually. GCPL Chairman Philip Saxton said library officials were "shocked" when their funding was reduced 15 percent, to the current level of $16.1 million. With the current reductions and increasing dependence on non-government funds, "we hope you will give some back." The most immediate change will be that all branches will be reduced to a five-day, 40-hour week (from the current seven days, 53 hours). Nancy Stanbury-…
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