STANTON, Mich. (WOOD) — The Montcalm County Board of Commissioners has OK’d sweeping staffing cuts, the largest concentration of which will be to public safety, as the county attempts to get its budget back in order.
Consultants Clark Hill and Rehmann Robson proposed the cuts that the commission approved during a Monday meeting. In all, the board agreed to eliminate 22.5 full-time equivalent positions (two part-time positions generally equal one full-time position):
- Four in the in judicial branch to save $267,203
- 5.5 in general government to save $515,583
- 10.5 from public safety to $849,221
- Two from the Commission on Aging to save $100,000
- 0.5 from the Friend of the Court to save $30,964
...Montcalm County Sheriff William Barnwell told 24 Hour News 8 Monday...said the cuts will leave his department with a “skeleton crew.”
He’s being asked to strip $800,000 from his $2.1 million annual budget...
...Further, the consultants, said, leaders weren’t keeping a close enough eye on how the spending was affecting the general fund.
As a result, the county is now some $2 million in the hole.
But some commissioners told 24 Hour News 8 Monday night that they didn’t know about the budget problems until just this spring.
So the question that remains: How did the deficit issues go unresolved for so long?"
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