Predicted Delaware County 2011 tax revenue losses
  • All Delaware County taxing units: $26.3 million

  • City of Muncie: $8.2 million

  • Delaware County: $3.9 million

  • Center Township: $688,196

  • Yorktown: $301,099

  • Yorktown Community Schools: $629,552

  • Muncie Community Schools: $5.3 million

  • Delaware Community Schools: $180,199

  • Wes-Del Community Schools: $21,384

  • Liberty-Perry Community Schools: $25,763

  • Cowan Community Schools: $41,950

  • Daleville Community Schools: $93,031

  • Muncie Public Library: $1.4 million <

  • Muncie Sanitary District: $2.3 million

  • MITS: $1.1 million

    Source: March 2009 Legislative Services Agency report.

    • By Nick Werner, Star Press

    nwerner@muncie.gannett.com

    MUNCIE -- City council member Linda Gregory envisions a Muncie that by 2011 will operate more like a developing country.

    Under Gregory's forecast, growing budget shortfalls would force the city to take drastic actions, including:

  • Eliminating two or three more fire stations.

  • Cutting business hours at city hall to part-time.

  • Erasing the parks budget.

  • Quitting mowing overgrown lots, resulting in hundreds of neglected eyesores across the city.

  • Euthanizing every abandoned animal that comes into the city shelter.

    Why is Gregory so pessimistic about 2011?

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