GALLIPOLIS - Over the past several weeks, the county commissioners have met with county department heads to discuss 2008 General Fund Budget requests which came in at almost $1 million over the expected 2008 budget.
The estimated budget for 2008 is $7,700,000 and the requests equaled $8,682,805.38; $1,057,178.44 over what was requested in 2007.
Budget requests for key departments are as follows: