"The federal budget may be tight, but many state, and local budgets are even tighter," the letter said.

"School costs make up half or more of local budgets."

A local budget can be drawn up with a degree of devolved responsibility.

The money raised at the state level would be sent back to municipalities to support their local budgets.

In terms of local budgets, this is just not a good time.

The company is hugely important to the city's economy, contributing 45% of all payments into the local budget.

Neither went forward due to "money vacuuming" out of the local budget.

Rates won't be struck until new county and local budgets are adopted this year.

If local budgets handled such costs, global weather changes would get serious attention.

Till the local budget got tight, and they decided to recruit locals.