RADFORD -- City leaders made one round of cuts and braced for another at Monday night's city council meeting.

State government cut its aid to local governments, so Radford cut its support of constitutional officers and other city government organizations that get state aid.

At its last meeting, council members decried the state's procrustean approach to the cuts, then followed the state's example by cutting every state-funded office by roughly 4.5 percent. This week, they made it official.

The final tally was $64,339 in reductions, ranging from $580 from juvenile justice to $23,259 from the police department.

"We don't take any pleasure in this," Councilman Bruce Brown said.

"The boogeyman isn't sitting up here," Brown said. "They're sitting in Richmond."

He encouraged people to take their complaints to the General Assembly.

"This state has a lot of politicians and not a lot of statesmen and women," Brown said.

Councilman Robert Nicholson expressed some concern that cuts to the registrar's office might not leave enough money to take care of November's election, for which turnout is expected to be heavy with voters casting ballots for the next president.

Mayor Tom Starnes brushed that aside.

"I think it's tough on everyone," Starnes said. "As we said last meeting, there may be more cuts to come."

Indeed, since council's last meeting Aug. 11, Gov. Tim Kaine has warned that there may be more cuts coming. City Manager Tony Cox, who said he expects it will be October before the size of those cuts are revealed, told council he was already taking action to prepare for a slimmer budget. In addition to the anticipated state cuts, the city's budget will likely take hits from recent layoffs and a bankruptcy filing by Intermet, parent company of the New River Foundry.

The city is putting some projects -- soccer fields and improvements at Wildwood Park -- on hold. Cox said the city isn't filling jobs that are already open and it's considering freezing others as they open up.

"We're trying to stay on top of things," Cox told council.