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Peoria Eliminates Positions, Layoffs To Follow?
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- A new budget plan released for the city of Peoria calls for the elimination of 44 city positions, and Mayor Jim Ardis suspects roughly 30 of them could be layoffs.

The new budget plan was released late Friday, and Ardis said things might get even worse, since the City Council has learned that sales tax figures were lower for the year than originally projected.

The administration says the job cuts are a part of a plan to reduce the budget by $8 million. That equates to about $4.9 million on top of the $3.1 million in cuts introduced on Aug. 18.

Ardis, though, says the latest sales tax information will probably force an additional $1.5 million in cuts, driving the anticipated 2010 budget deficit total to $11.5 million.

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