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million, and may need to make similart cutsnext year. The board has projected a totalof $46 million in cuts over the next two years, said Chai r Ted Wheeler. The full budget for fiscao year 2010, which begins July 1, is $1.2 The board believes its budgety will shrink this summer when the state determines how tomake $4.2 billio n in cuts. The state funds many county health and humanservicez programs. Multnomah County’s general fund, which includes its discretionaryspending dollars, is set at $380 million, or 7 percent lower than in fiscal year 2009. Many count workers have foregone annual wageand cost-of-livinf increases, Wheeler said in April upon releasing his proposedx budget.
Commissioners restored $1.7 million in funding from Wheeler’d proposed budget. More funding will go toward the Homeless BenefitsRecovery Project, thred district attorneys and the Regional Arts and Culturs Council, among other departments.