JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The gnashing of teeth over cutting the budgets for Jacksonville's police and firefighters is nearly over as both agencies found out Tuesday the final numbers the mayor will include in his budget proposal to City Council later this month.

While the budgets require major belt-tightening, Channel 4 learned the cuts will not be as deep as first requested and no fire stations will close and no police officers will be laid off.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office will be trimmed by $7.5 million, far less than the $32 million cut first requested by Mayor John Peyton.

"We still think it's important that everybody realizes that we feel our agency is in a condition right now where we can't afford to cut more positions," Undersheriff Frank Mackesy said.

But to maintain the same number of officers on the street, the department will reassign 24 officers from inside jobs back into patrol and 75 civilian jobs will be cut.

Three correction officers will also be reassigned and one appointed position in the jail will go away.

Will the average citizen notice the changes?

"One of the biggest things they are going to notice is that we had four inmate work crews that we would take out and we would do things in the neighborhoods and clean up and carry debris and trash and garbage and clean out ditches. We're no longer going to be doing that anymore," Mackesy said.

In another money-saving move, the sheriff's office plans to sell two helicopters and two airplanes currently used by the aviation unit. Some police officers who live outside Duval County will not be allowed to drive patrol cars home.

The fire department will lose $4 million from its budget -- a number the director said the department can live with.

"We focused our cuts in administrative areas, we focused our cuts in looking at places where we perhaps we had uniform personnel who are working in area where civilians who might be paid less," JFRD Director Dan Kleman said.

While fire and police cuts are finalized, other departments are facing deeper cuts and city officials are still talking about raising fees for some services.

"The budget has to be balanced," said Susie Wiles, spokeswoman for Mayor John Peyton. "We've got to take the cuts somewhere. Ultimately it'll be the combination of some form of new revenue, perhaps, and deeper cuts in general revenue."