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Spending restrictions put the squeeze on Lane County budget.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-APR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 889 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Spending restrictions put the squeeze on Lane County budget.(Government)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard

Say you're a Lane County family making $50,000 a year. You're promised a 3 percent raise again next year, but at the same time, your cost of living - health insurance, car insurance, gasoline - keeps going up faster, at least 6 percent overall. Financially, you're falling further and further behind.

What do you do? Spend your savings? Stop dining out? Shop for clothing at secondhand stores? Skip the family vacation?

Multiply this example by a thousand, and you get a glimpse of what county officials are grappling with as they put together a budget for the fiscal year that begins in July.

At first blush, Lane County's $414 million budget seems huge. But three-fourths of that funding comes to the county through federal and state appropriations...

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