Judges, prosecutors and judiciary department heads are looking to cut spending on everything from faxes to pizza as they carry out the Cobb County Board of Commissioners’ directive this week to cut 10 percent of their annual discretionary budgets-and schedule five furlough days for all employees during the remaining five months of the current fiscal year.

Cobb County District Attorney Patrick H. Head, who told the commission two weeks ago, “There is nothing I can cut,” had a different message after the budget crisis vote Tuesday. “We’re going to make it happen,” Head said. “We have to.”

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