Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe released his 2010-2011 proposed budget to city council on Saturday, Feb. 13.
The proposed budget is much lower than that of the past two years. This year’s it is nearly $1.5 million less than the 2008-2009 budget and $5.1 million less than the 2009-2010 budget.
When taking a look at the 2010-2011 proposed budget one can see that all but three expenditures have had their budgets cut. Among these three expenditures, two of which had no change in their budget. These were the insurance programs and city council departments. Most notably of these three departments, the mayor, is not scheduled for cuts, but instead has the only raise in the budget, which is $1,692.
There are several key items that were addressed within the $39.5 million budget. Some of these include furloughs, layoffs and paving projects.
Furloughs, or required, unpaid time off, would start in September or October. These 20-day furloughs would be for all city employees with only Mayor Wolfe and 11 representatives of the city council left exempt. These furloughs are expected to save $1.1 million for the city.
Layoffs are anticipated within the police and fire departments. The police department is expected to layoff eight civilian employees, which will leave the department with only one civilian employee. The fire department may have to cope with laying off all three of their civilian employees. These layoffs would leave the clerical work in the hands of the officers of these departments, which will have to pull double duty.
These layoffs and furloughs are in relation to the $852,969 cut in the police department budget, as well as the $365,191 cut to the fire department.
The biggest cut in expenditures comes in the form of grants, which is losing $2,142,703 with the police department coming in second.
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