Released today, the independent audit of fiscal 2004 found the surplus was a result of a brisk real estate market and higher than anticipated revenue from the local income tax. Ms. Owens cited a gloomy fiscal forecast in announcing the layoffs in June 2003, as well as the County Council's decision not to freeze union wages.
"Obviously she should have waited," said County...
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