Miscellaneous

Hawkeye Budget Slides

By Anne Skove, Esq.

The cuts keep coming in Iowa.

Recall that several prospective cutbacks, including reducing the number of magistrates, furloughs, and other measures narrowly escaped the chopping block.

Now it's down to the wire, and not even the increased number of courthouse weddings will save the budget.

Fifteen positions will be cut; 50 current vacancies will not be filled. Court reporters make up the bulk of the casualties, with 13 losing their jobs.

See Iowa Courts Cut $5.4M from 2010 Budget, AP/Chicago Tribune (June 25, 2009).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).