The county budgeted Medicaid at $190,000 a week and has spent $350,000.

The county even budgeted $115.00 per month for transportation for students.

Westchester's homeless population of 4,300 is an increase of 25 percent over last year, and the county has budgeted $54 million to care for them.

In total, the county has budgeted $19.1 million for these programs, almost 25 percent more than it spent this year.

The county has budgeted $25.9 million for about 130 retirements expected next year.

Each county has budgeted $100,000 for board operations in 2006.

The county has budgeted $64 million to house the homeless this year.

But though the county only budgeted a 6.5 percent rise this year, he added, collections are falling far short of that.

The county has budgeted $216,000 this year for the cost of paying acquitted criminal defendants' costs.

The county has budgeted $2.7 million for mosquito control this year.