County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo’s 2018 budget is a done deal. The spending plan easily cleared the County Legislature last night, with only three of the 29 members voting against it; all of the no votes were Democrats. The $1.2 billion plan includes a major staffing boost in the county’s Child Protective Services and a $1.6 […]
2018 Monroe County budget
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Dinolfo’s budget: too good to be true?
County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo makes some very important investments in her 2018 budget proposal. The plan includes roughly $3 million to add 30 Child Protective Services caseworkers, restores $1.7 million for services that have been proven to reduce child abuse and neglect, and boosts child day-care funding by $1.6 million. These are the very investments […]
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Dinolfo releases her 2018 budget
County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo’s 2018 budget is a bit of a knuckleball. Every year for the past several, as Dinolfo and her predecessor, Maggie Brooks, have prepared to release their budgets, advocates would ramp up efforts to pressure the execs into boosting funding for programs that help vulnerable children. Child care funding has been a […]
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Dinolfo’s budget will add funding for visitation programs
A coalition of children’s advocates, faith leaders, and medical professionals are urging Monroe County officials to better fund services that have been proven to help prevent child abuse. Specifically, the coalition wants Monroe County to restore $1.7 million worth of funding that has been cut from some of those programs since 2014. They include Nurse-Family […]
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Dinolfo plans to boost staffing at Child Protective Services
Child-protective workers move from one crisis to the next; it’s the nature of their jobs. They often have to set aside follow-up work on existing cases when new, potentially urgent or severe, cases come in. Often, when improvements are made in the public agencies that investigate child abuse and neglect reports, they happen the same […]
