HOUGHTON — The City of Houghton will have to contend with a reduction in money from the state as a result of last week’s passage of a state budget. The city will face a four percent cut in state revenue sharing according to Houghton City Manager Eric Waara during the city council meeting Wednesday. Waara explained the cuts were supposed to be replaced with public safety dollars, but there is a setback with this method.

“What they did is they said, ‘Oh, we’ll replace the money. We’ll help backfill some of the money with public safety dollars.’ Except we’re a rural low-crime area, so if you’re the City of Houghton, you got your revenue sharing cut by $41,000 and only got about $7,500 back through the public safety thing,” Waara said. “But downstate, where your revenue sharing was cut by $40

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