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Beth Leisure laid the 2027 budgeting groundwork during Wayne County Council’s April 1 finance committee meeting, and it was not an April Fools’ Day joke. “Just another reminder: Anything you can cut, you need to cut,” Leisure said to county department heads. “Don’t be coming to us with a bunch more requests for more employees and more money for this …
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── Wayne County Budget (2023) ── Total county budget: $44.8M County population: 66,397 Per-capita spending: $675/resident Poverty: 11,507 residents (17%) Median household income: $56K General: $32.5M [73%] ($490/resident) County Council: $7.8M → Employee Benefits $3.7M, Transfer Out - Transferred To Another Fund $423K, Professional Services $103K ⚠ $3.5M in unitemized 'Other' categories Jail: $4.9M → Salaries and Wages $2.6M, Professional …