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DHS loses $7.5 million in guv's budget

Despite significant impacts to education and healthcare, Gov. Corbett's budget cuts will not devastate city government operations, a top Nutter administration official said Tuesday.

After months of fretting about the fallout from Corbett's budget cuts, city officials now say that the direct impact on the city's general fund did not meet the worst fears.

"Our analysis suggests while the Governor's budget makes some painful cuts to key city services, the proposal will not hit as hard as some may have predicted," Clay Armbrister, the Mayor's chief of staff, testified Tuesday morning in the year's first budget hearing before City Council.

The impacts include:

-- $7.5 million less for the city's Department Of Human Services, specifics to be determined.

--$2.4 million cut to the Human Services Development Fund for homelessness.

--$2.3 million cut in Human Services Development Fund equating to cuts in HIV prevention, lead abatement and services at city health centers.

-- $1.9 million in after-school and summer youth programs.

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