Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

CapMetro budget excludes union raises

From KXAN, September 22, 2008...

Monday afternoon Capital Metro will hold a public hearing concerning its new budget.

It is a budget that does not include raises for the union employees, who have been trying to work out a contract agreement with the company.

Meanwhile, the latest numbers show ridership is up, especially at park-and-rides where 30 percent more people are taking a bus than this time in 2007.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Williamson County budget requests up from last year

From statesman.com, May 29, 2008...

Even though the Williamson County district attorney's office handles all of the county's felony cases, a lot of civil paperwork has to be done daily, District Attorney John Bradley said.

Everything from civil subpoenas to open records requests to lawsuits bog down his attorneys, whose expertise is not in civil law, Bradley said.

"We've just sort of been getting along by distributing this among five or six lawyers as additional duties," he said. "It's come to the point where all of these duties amount to a full-time job."

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Leander ISD Faces Serious Budget Woes

From Hill Country News April 11, 2008...

The Leander Independent School District could soon face some tough choices in the near future, thanks to the state's public school finance legislation passed in May 2006. The district may not be able to add new programs and might have to start looking for programs to cut, or even consider a rollback election.

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Friday, February 29, 2008

Williamson County Commissioners Start Planning New Budget

From statesman.com February 28, 2008...

As Williamson County commissioners begin to discuss the county's upcoming budget, they'll first need to decide who oversees it.

For now, it's County Judge Dan A. Gattis, but there's plenty of confusion (even among the county's attorneys) about whether he should keep the job.

To clear up the issue, County Attorney Jana Duty requested an opinion from the state attorney general's office in June.

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