“If (LGF) is cut, it will hurt all municipalities in the state,” said West Carrollton Finance Director Tom Reilly, whose city gets about $360,000 annually. “It will definitely mean that we need to go back to the drawing board.”
Trotwood, which gets $600,000 annually in LGF money, already has city employees on a furlough program that cuts 10 percent of their pay. Despite that, City Manager Mike Lucking says Trotwood’s May operating levy will be a renewal, rather than a request for more money.
“Our focus is trying to live with our existing revenue,” Lucking said.
But Rob Nichols, spokesman for Gov.-elect John Kasich, said that revenue is not guaranteed in 2011, as Kasich studies how to fill a two-year budget hole of at least $8 billion this spring. “Everything’s on the table,” Nichols said. “(Kasich) has said that over and over.”
Staff writer Marc Katz contributed to this story.
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