Newton County employees are safe from firings, furloughs and pay cuts until at least June 30. Five county departments made last-minute, non-personnel cuts totaling more than $1.1 million, to erase fully the previous $5 million budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2009.The room full of county employees and the Board of Commissioners were excited and relieved by the successful budget cuts announced and approved at a special called meeting Wednesday."We did it," District 1 Commissioner Mort Ewing said, while congratulating District 3 Commissioner Nancy Schultz after the meeting. "We all won."The extra