The simple answer is that he needs the money to balance the county budget.

We did not play with the county budget, cut taxes one year only to raise them in another.

Labor costs account for more than 40 percent of the county budget.

A $3.4 million tax levy in the county budget made up the difference.

The current county budget provides $17 million for inmate health care.

Next year, for example, the county budget is to be balanced with $72 million of special aid.

The 1996 county budget provided for $948.8 million in spending.

The report noted that about 28 percent of the $2.2 billion county budget was spent on the police department.

I'm doing a financial analysis of the county budget, looking for waste.

Nearly $200 million had to be slashed from the county budget and more than 1,000 jobs were cut.