Funding has been from both local and foreign aid.

The $46.6 billion budget the Governor laid out two weeks ago included cutbacks in local aid.

With the Late-2000s recession, the state was forced to cut $6 million in local aid.

This is the first time in four fiscal years that local aid was preserved.

State officials have made it clear that further cuts in local aid are a strong possibility.

But now we've lost $80 million in local aid from the state, and 11.9 percent is not a bad increase.

Family and local private aid has been faster than international relief.

Clark had benefited from enormous sums of Community, national and local aid.

But the union stood firm, saying it would instead continue efforts to find more local, state and federal aid.

County officials say they also worry that the state, because of its own fiscal troubles, might pull back on local aid.