By Bill Torpy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DeKalb County News
June 22, 2010
DeKalb County commissioners on Monday approved changes to the midyear budget that will keep two recreation centers in operation that were headed for closure and won't raise taxes. However, county officials still need to juggle cost items or make more cuts in the next few weeks.
“It sounds like we will have to continue our conversation [on budget items]," CEO Burrell Ellis said after leaving the meeting. Ellis originally wanted an increase in the millage rate to hire more officers and other employees to replace those who took early retirement earlier this year.
The board’s action, after impassioned speeches by 30 residents, meant that the county will send its set millage rate to the state this week, allowing property tax bills to be mailed in August. Otherwise, the county would have had to borrow money to fund operations.
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