Cuts to social service programs aren’t likely to be a part of Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug’s proposed 2019 budget, despite previous statements that warned such cuts were a probability if voters rejected a sales tax to expand the county jail.
County voters last month did reject that sales tax, but Weinaug recently told the Journal-World that he doesn’t plan to recommend any significant cuts to social service programs or cuts to the approximately $1.5 million of new behavioral health services programs that the county has begun. Instead, other cuts will be proposed to help fund some improvements at the jail.
“I will not propose cutting any of the $1.5 million,” he said. “The bulk of what I have identified as being things they can cut back on have nothing to do with social services.”
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