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The 11 percent solution

The perks of office compared

by James Leonard

posted 7/13/2009

Faced with a $26 million revenue shortfall over the next two years, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners voted in early June to cut its own $600,000 budget by 11 percent. But at first glance, even the new $534,000 figure for the county’s eleven commissioners looks bloated: the city budgets just $350,000 for its eleven-member council (including the mayor’s

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