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

The remainder is usually paid out of state and local budgets.

State and local budgets suffer when workers are paid under the table.

But in the summer local budget experts and, eventually, several Democrats also expressed concern.

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

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

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

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

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

In light of state and local budget cuts, ensuring the federal government is responsive to our region's needs has never been more important to me.

The 169 local budgets amount to more than state and federal block grants combined.

For five consecutive years, its internal revenue within local budget ranks third.

Over the past decade, Washington has whittled its share of state and local budgets from 25 percent to 17.

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

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

His duties include overseeing the local budget "and pretty much all issues regarding the town," he said.

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

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

It is growing at 13 percent a year, placing a continuing strain on state and local budgets.

Local budget directors can make more accurate spending plans.

The oil company argues that taxes paid to local budgets will help to breathe life back into the region.

A significant part of a local budget was relied on agriculture and governmental subsidies.

In the last 10 years, the Federal Government's share of state and local budgets has decreased by about 8 percent.

She added that because of local budget cuts, the school still has a shortage of books.

What Trenton does affects local budgets in all sorts of ways.