We understand that this Thursday morning the Legislature will consider legislative bills to address a few outstanding FY 2009 budget issues, including, unfortunately, a raid on shared revenue in the current fiscal year.
The information that we have seen contains $17.5 million in shared revenue cuts. If they succeed, Phoenix will take a $5.3 million hit. The City has already made deep budget cuts, totaling more than $200 million. Reductions in public safety, parks, libraries, and street services have already been made. Losing additional monies will place these programs at further risk.
Please take a moment to call your state legislators to express how difficult it would be to wring another $5.1 million out of the current year's City budget. Please ask them not to harm cities by cutting revenue sharing.
Source: P.L.A.N.
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