WARREN — Commissioners on Friday finished listening to pleas of the county’s various departments mostly asking for more funds to operate in 2026.

“This was the easy part,” Commissioner Denny Malloy said of the two days of half-hour long presentations detailing why the commissioners should stretch their limited dollars to meet departmental needs. “The hard part will be crunching numbers, because departments are requesting more. Last year, every department got cut. It will be what department has been most honest in what they’ve provided us.

“There is some fat built into these budget projections and we have to figure it out,” he continued.

“There were a couple of departments that surprised me knowing the situation we were in last year, that they are still requesting some things that they k

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