Salaries and overtime have already been cut in the town's $154 million budget to keep taxes from rising more than 5.5 percent.

The House, meanwhile, approved an admonitory $45,000 cut in the endowment's recommended budget for 1990 of about $170 million.

More than 16,000 of these jobs, evenly split among military and civilian management workers, would be cut in the next fiscal year's budget, saving $2.3 billion.

"We're really concerned that rural development and conservation programs are being cut in the president's budget," Mr. Buis he said.

The council is hopeful the county will restore a $76,000 cut in its budget.

Republicans also benefited from their success in cutting spending in this year's budget.

The State Department of Education insists that the school will not close because of the $750,000 cut in its $4 million budget.

Critics say, however, that when faced with a competitive re-election battle, Mr. Pataki did not cut spending in this year's budget, as other states did.

His attempt to cut tariffs in his 1875 budget led to the fall of Kerferd's government.

The finance board has called for an $890,000 cut in the school board's proposed $33 million budget for 1990-91.