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- pressofAtlanticCity.com : Atlantic County

By EMILY PREVITI Staff Writer

Township Manager Jill Gougher announced the decision Friday afternoon, hours after police Chief Pat Moran met with police union representatives and 14 patrol officers who went on paid leave in advance of being laid off. Dressed in street clothes, the officers filed silently into the courtroom within the Galloway Township Municipal Complex about 7:25 a.m. Friday, with some of them being required to turn in their badges, guns and police cars.

Many local governments are struggling with declining tax revenues and the possibility of less state aid.

Atlantic City faces a budget gap originally estimated to be $35 million. The city may lay off 10 highly paid workers and fire or demote superior officers in the police department, plus cut a week from the start and end of the beach season and temporarily close fire stations.

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