VALDOSTA — Lowndes County faces a $7 million budget shortfall as county leaders work to find solutions before a budget deadline.

The county will have to find ways to cut the budget enough to provide balanced books.

Commissioners have taken input from the various county department heads over the past two days to hear what cuts need to be made, what cuts don’t, and why.

Chairman Bill Slaughter told WALB in an interview that no department or program is specifically targeted at this point.

“Staff also has a lot of input into that. We’ll go back at another date and we’ll begin to look at all this and start pullin’ it down and tryin’ to get it down closer to what the projected revenue is,” Chairman Slaughter stated to WALB.

Work will continue until the shortfall has been bridged.