Instead, the cost is part of the company's overall maintenance budget.

And last year's $24 million maintenance budget was clipped to $10 million this year.

He said prison building and maintenance budget will be £1.3 billion - half of that which was planned.

But the operations and maintenance budget, which pays for spare parts, has gone up only 18.5 percent, to $81.6 billion annually.

The operations and maintenance budget would actually increase by 2 percent, officials said.

If the parts' cost had been coming out of our own maintenance budget, there's probably only one I'd have bothered with changing.

The measures also include a cut of $4.3 million from the maintenance budget for parks and playgrounds.

In the past year, the maintenance budget increased 10-fold.

When it was over, the annual maintenance budget was pushed to $2 million from $50,000.

Under the plan, the utility sets an annual operating and maintenance budget, which came to about $350 million in 1987.