Claiborne County employees will be forced to take days off without pay until at least September, and nonprofit agencies can expect another cut in their funding, county officials said Thursday.

The county’s 100 or so employees must take two days off per month while officials find ways to cut more from the budget, County Administrator James Johnston said.

Vital services have gone uncut, he said, though support for nonprofit agencies — enabled only through act of the Legislature — was cut 10 percent this year and another 25 percent chop was OK’d by the board Tuesday.

No furloughs have been ordered for Port Gibson’s 40 city employees, City Clerk Vanessa Shaifer said.

Warren, Sharkey and Issaquena counties have entered 2011 without work interruptions in their respective departments.

Nonprofit agency support in Warren County has been cut 30 percent for the current budget year, compared to last year’s spending plan. This year, supervisors are expected to ask area legislators to renew funding for at least six of 13 charitable organizations receiving funds in the past five years. Furloughing each of the county’s approximately 285 employees one day during the year would save $20,000, an estimate showed in April. Employees in Hinds County were furloughed one day per month for four months during the last fiscal year, and eight unpaid days off are planned for the current budget year.

A restructuring plan for Vicksburg’s 500 employees is still emerging, . In December, the city approved raises for 270 non-civil city employees and 5 percent raises for the entire Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Mayor Paul Winfield didn’t anticipate layoffs or furloughs when the raises were announced, but said some of the city’s 36 departments could be merged to cut costs. No timetable has been specified for the makeover.

No furloughs were expected in Sharkey or Issaquena, though the topic came up Tuesday during budget talks for the City of Rolling Fork.

“We talked about it Tuesday, but we’ve kinda pulled back,” said City Clerk Dorothy Pearson. The city employs 23, she said.

Sharkey County employs about 56, and chancery and circuit clerk Murindia Williams said no furloughs are planned there.

Belt-tightening was the strategy in Issaquena, which employs about 80 people, deputy chancery and circuit clerk Robbie Duncan said. The office also functions as the county administration entity.

“We’ll hold expenses down and do better with costs,” Duncan said.

Property tax millage rates went up in Claiborne, Sharkey and Issaquena to fulfill funding requests from school districts there. Rates remained level in Vicksburg and Warren County.