BOARD MULLS $7 MILLION CUT FOR DISABLED, OTHERS.Byline: - Grace Lee Ventura County supervisors wrestled Tuesday with the potential loss of almost $7 million in state money to help disabled students, battered bat·ter 1 v. bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters v.tr. 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. 2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 3. women and other needy residents. Supervisor Kathy Long said county officials are faced with seeing ``where we can be more creative and where we have to draw a line in the sand and say we're not going to do it anymore.'' That decision, she said, would be painful. Chief Deputy Executive Officer Marty Robinson said the county could face lawsuits if it drops state-mandated services. The county could dip into dip into Verb 1. to draw upon: he dipped into his savings 2. to read passages at random from (a book or journal) Verb 1. its own general fund in the unlikely hope of being reimbursed one day. Suing the state for the full amount is also an option, Robinson said. ``We're the ones The follow-up of ABC's Still the One slogan from 1977 was We're the One (In a Million). It was also the premiere slogan for the United Kingdom's Sky Television (now British Sky Broadcasting) in 1989. facing the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin challenge of whether or not to cut services to the mentally ill, to children,'' said Supervisor Judy Mikels. The board also faces an additional $36 million deficit in the $1.2 billion county budget. Also Tuesday, members of the Open Space District Advisory Committee presented a report to the supervisors and compared the benefits of assessing a parcel tax or an added one-eighth of 1 percent sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. . For either tax to take effect, the Legislature would have to allow the measure to be put on the ballot, then voters would have to approve it. Mikels said she believed a vote on the tax district would have to be delayed beyond March 4, 2004. ``I think people are going to put their foot down, (saying), 'Wait, you already have all but my firstborn first·born adj. First in order of birth; born first. n. The child in a family who is born first. Noun 1. firstborn - the offspring who came first in the order of birth eldest . I can't give you any more,''' she said. |
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