It is now running a primary budget surplus, spending less than it receives in taxes.
Westminster City Council said the money was not profit, but a surplus spent on transport and infrastructure.
Informed of the security breach, the State Treasury Department, which manages surplus equipment, stopped auctioning computers last year.
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Yet in a two-year period of seeming surpluses, the town managed to spend $187,035 -- $27,500 on a tornado siren, $41,000 to trim and remove trees, $7,500 to knock down a dead man's house, $24,639 for lawyers' fees, $5,950 for a new police car, $5,500 for a tractor, $1,900 on uniforms for the town marshal and $12,000 for a shed and dog pens, among other items.
Brazil has managed to cut spending and create a small budget surplus before interest is paid on government debt.
However, even if it managed to cut spending massively and run a primary surplus of 2.0%, it could only support debt equal to about 6% of GDP.
In New York, however, Mr. Pataki and legislative leaders managed to raise spending by burning up reserves the governor had saved during the boom years of the late 1990's, when the state enjoyed yearly surpluses.
"What they are is really snooping," said Helen Sloup, who manages the surplus store in Wahoo.
The surplus is spent, creating the myth that the budget is getting balanced.
Mr. Levy said he would rather see any surplus funds spent on services like health care.
