City/village/township/county governmental leaders are pencil-pushing and head-scratching in trying to find direction for FY 17 budgets.

Finance planners are always in search of a better bottom-line, but the state’s battle without a budget for 10-months plus delayed al sorts of reimbursement payments to local government. Now, still waiting for those state funds, local governmental leaders are strapped with a shortage.

Municipal and county officials are struggling to find new means of revenue.

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