Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer
Proposed budget cuts aimed at the district attorney and sheriff's offices probably will be restored by the end of the year and lawmakers may even be sympathetic to giving the two departments extra funding, according to Albany County legislators from both political parties.
Any such move would be a slap to County Executive Michael Breslin and could touch off a bruising political fight. Breslin last week proposed cutting the Sheriff's Department by $364,608 and the district attorney's office by $28,787 as part of his $354.5 million spending plan for the upcoming 1999 fiscal year. Both had requested increases in their budgets.
Breslin's recommended cuts to the district attorney's office came under scrutiny because District …
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