They say the department budget has increased 57 percent increase, or $26 million, since 1990.

Where the hell do you think I'm going to put it in the department budget?

It is the state pension system, not in the department budget.

More than $450,000 will come from cuts in department budgets he said department heads willingly made.

One of them has been editorial department budgets.

Sheriff Baca conceded that he hoped to whip up public concern over the consequences of the department budget, as proposed.

"At Iowa, for example, our athletic department budget is $13 million, and we're looking for increased revenue."

Having expanded programs and even enrollment during the 1980's, when department budgets sometimes grew well beyond the rate of inflation, they now have to scale back.

The fine is not much compared with a department budget of $17.7 billion this year, but the embarrassment level is high.

Most of the spending violated department budget and spending rules for local authorities, officials said.