The DeSoto Board of Supervisors, with little debate but hearing a plea for janitorial workers who are losing their jobs to outsourcing, approved Tuesday a lean fiscal 2013 budget of $104.2 million in expenditures.

It's an 8 percent cut from this year's blueprint but still allows for increases in jail-operation costs and a 3 percent raise for county workers. The vote of the five-member governing board was 4-1, with supervisor Bill Russell of Walls casting the lone "no."

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