VILLA PARK : City Trims $46,641 in Second Round of Cuts

City government has made a second round of budget cuts for the fiscal year, with new reductions totaling $46,641.

The City Council passed a resolution in June requiring the budget be scaled back by that amount. The 1995-96 budget adopted in June called for $1.86 million in expenditures; the new cuts reduce the total to $1.82 million.

Before approving the original budget, the City Council had reduced the proposed spending document by about $38,000. The two rounds of budget reductions thus total about $84,000.

The second round of cuts came after several recommendations were made in recent months by the city’s new residents’ Financial Advisory Committee.

They include taking $1,345 from the 1995-96 pay and benefits originally budgeted for City Manager Fred Maley. Another cut takes $2,106 from the 1995-96 allocation for the city clerk’s office.

Other reductions in the new round of cuts include $3,500 from Civic Center costs, $33,812 from public works, $3,500 from storm drain maintenance and $1,700 from sewer maintenance.

“Two-thirds of the city budget goes for contracts” for city services, Maley said. “We have a great deal of privatization for our city services, and in the past year the city’s staff has been reduced from eight employees to six.”

Villa Park, with a population of about 6,300, is the smallest city in Orange County.