Budget cuts reduced funding for the Extension office by 70%, revealing limited financial impact despite efforts.
Reduced tax revenues and the cost of a new county jail led to two years of budget cuts to all nonmandated, county-supported agencies.Funding for the Extension office had been reduced by 70% and staff positions were threatened.Efforts to increase funding by demonstrating Extension's impact on the county and its citizens' quality of life had little effect.The commissioners indicated that many nonmandated agencies were doing "good things," but that the available funds couldn't support all of them.
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