State, local officials disagree on state budget savings. (Sheboygan Press, 3/17/2011)
Just one of numerous examples.
Excerpt: For Sheboygan County, the figures released by Walker say the county would save $2,217,294 in 2012 because of his budget measures that call for $1.46 million in state aid cuts, balanced with $3.68 million from increased employee contributions to state pension programs and health insurance coverage.
But Terry Hanson, the county's finance director, estimates the county's savings for 2012 would be $96,169, or $2,121,125 less than what the State Budget Office figures show.
The main reason, Hanson said, is because the state figures assume public employees do not contribute anything to health insurance, but in contracts already negotiated between Sheboygan County and many of its employee unions, workers already pay between 10 and 12.5 percent of their premiums.
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