Sims said the county has begun the process of determining what services it will continue and which ones will be cut. Transit employees and jobs within the county's waste-water treatment system are funded by a separate budget and won't be affected.
Decisions are still several months away.
It will be a narrowing of our responsibilities. Representatives with the county's unionized employees said they knew the budget was going to be tight, but not this tight. John Williams, treasurer and secretary of Teamsters Local 117 said the county's 1,500 Teamsters are worried. But I don't want to say it is going to happen until I get more information. The budget shortage comes at a time when the county budget is growing, but not at the same rate as its expenses.