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[email protected] - USPS 118-480 One Section • 14 pages Between Lake Cumberland & Dale Hollow Lake Volume 62 • Number 15 Big budget problems have fi scal court discussing options to boost revenues There’s an old saying to the effect, “things are Judge/Executive Lyle Huff began the discussion were to lapse, it isn’t renewable. were those who had been (state) mandated, such as tough all over” and although the national economy by telling court members, all of whom were pres- There was a suggestion made about possibly re- jail employees. is showing small signs of improving, many states ent, that the cost of county employee health insur- bidding the policy, but also concerns that no other This exchange led to questions about jail staff- and local governments are still suffering fi nancial- ance was increasing annually and would be around company may pick it up. ing requirements and recent Kentucky Statute ly and trying to come up with ways to balance their $41,000 more this year. “We can’t sustain (budget) Magistrate Mickey Riddle said that “We knew budgets. Clinton County is no exception and the without a revenue infl ux,” he said. this (budget problems) over a year ago,” but never See FUNDS, page 5 adverse fi nancial condition of the county, as well County Treasurer Dallas Sidwell basically con- made cuts and hired other people, referring to one as looking at ways of trying to “make ends meet” curred, saying the county had to either increase employee in particular who was given a raise in took up most of last week’s regular meeting of the revenue or make cuts and inferred by the end of relation to additional duties.