Aldermen pass a balanced budget.
March 30th, 2009 at 09:50pm Chuck Sweeny
It was close but the Rockford City Council seems to have come up with a balanced budget without too much wailing and gnashing of teeth.The mayor gave some — the education czar job is gone –and the firefighters union flexed its muscle with aldermen to get them to keep the four firefighters on a truck rule intact, paid for by soaking folks needing an ambulance.
The $112.6 million general fund budget relies on furloughs for nonunion workers.
There were some anticipating a donneybrook, but aldermen, facing election next week, probably figured they needed to appear adult-like.
Anyway, congratulations.
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