Cutting the budget — and the lights
Just hours after Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon announced that his administration would have to cut expenses even further to survive the nation's recession, the lights went out at the County Government Center.
Computers went blank, escalators halted and traffic snarled at the bustling intersection of State Street and 2100 South as the signals lost power.
The outage Tuesday was so severe, in fact, that the County Council was forced to cancel its afternoon meetings. The move delayed, for a week, the council's deliberations about whether to approve nearly $5 million in mayor-recommended budget cuts.
The mayor's chief administrative officer, Doug Willmore, joked outside the darkened council chambers that the blackout was among those cost-shaving measures.
"This is the extent of our budget cuts," he mused.
Willmore better hope the council doesn't get any ideas.
-- Jeremiah Stettler
Computers went blank, escalators halted and traffic snarled at the bustling intersection of State Street and 2100 South as the signals lost power.
The outage Tuesday was so severe, in fact, that the County Council was forced to cancel its afternoon meetings. The move delayed, for a week, the council's deliberations about whether to approve nearly $5 million in mayor-recommended budget cuts.
The mayor's chief administrative officer, Doug Willmore, joked outside the darkened council chambers that the blackout was among those cost-shaving measures.
"This is the extent of our budget cuts," he mused.
Willmore better hope the council doesn't get any ideas.
-- Jeremiah Stettler
3:47 PM
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