Is she still eligible to draw from city retirement and health benefits or do those terminate with the conviction as well?

The public notice is buried within the jj. Something as important as the city budget should be plastered on the front page of the city of JC site. Citizens should not have to dig for this information. As for other expenses, the budget defines them as "Materials, supplies and non-bondable equipment; repairs and maintenance of buildings, equipment, roads, ect; contractual services for garbage and trash removal, fire hydrant services, aid to volunteer fire companies, etc; printing and advertising, utility services, insurance and many other items essential to the services rendered by municipal government." That really helps! I can't imagine breaking these down would be such a hard task. What I would like to know is what the process is for getting these "other" expenses approved.

seasonal and provisional employees? No doubt the people who probably need these jobs the most. How about getting rid of some chiefs instead of the indians? Wouldn't that have more of an effect on the budget both short and long term by cutting the pension and health care liability? How many private companies do you know of that still offer pension plans? Not many I bet. Most have either frozen their pension plans or converted them over to 401k type plans. Move the liability away from the taxpayers!