The 2022 county budget, totaling $1.28 billion, reduces property taxes, provides additional public safety funding, and bolsters smaller arts organizations.
Monroe County budget
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Bello’s first budget proposal holds spending flat, drops tax rate
County Executive Adam Bello also noted that the budget includes a cushion to protect against revenue losses due to the continuing pandemic.
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Monroe County’s pandemic-driven budget gap shrinks, but remains massive
County Executive Adam Bello laid out steps his administration is taking to bridge a projected
$45.8 million to $81.5 million shortfall.
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Monroe County faces staggering budget shortfall
County Executive Adam Bello projects that the gap could account for as much as 10 percent of the county’s $1.2 billion.
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Feedback 12/28
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Feedback 12/7
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Cops and the Edison 3
Rochester’s next police chief, expected to be named later this month, will walk into an extraordinarily tough job: fighting crime and improving police-community relations. At the same time. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve gotten vivid examples of how hard that will be. There’ve been almost daily reports of shootings, fights, and stabbings. Reining […]
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Day care subsidies: What Maggie Brooks didn’t say
When Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks presented her 2014 budget proposal recently, she said that the county would provide more funding than the state required for child day care subsidies. And as a result, she said, no families currently receiving child day care subsidies would lose their slots. But Brooks chose her words carefully. She didn’t […]
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Fee faux outrage
Let me say a word in support of Maggie Brooks. I didn’t vote for her for Congress or for county executive, and this newspaper didn’t endorse her for either one. But I’ve been amused at Monroe County Democrats’ piling on about her latest budget and the fees snuggled away inside it. By the time you […]
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[UPDATED] Week ahead: County budget meetings, West Main Street church discussion
Monroe County Legislature committees start discussing County Executive Maggie Brooks’ 2013 budget proposal today. Today’s schedule: Agenda/Charter, 5 p.m., Planning and Economic Development, 5:30; Public Safety Committee, 6. Tuesday: Recreation and Education, 5 p.m.; Transportation, 5:30; Human Services, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Environment and Public Works, 5 p.m.; Intergovernmental Relations, 5:30. Legislators typically ask a lot […]
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Brooks proposes $1.2 billion budget for 2013
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks has proposed a $1.2 billion budget for 2013 that she says makes no significant changes to county programs or services. She presented her budget proposal tonight before a meeting of the County Legislature. The budget increases the cost of zoo admissions by about $1, and also raises the amount taxpayers […]
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Brooks presenting county budget tonight
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks will present her 2013 budget proposal to the County Legislature tonight.The presentation is at 6 p.m., which is when the Legislature meeting is scheduled to start. The county budget typically comes in at approximately $1 billion. And the tax rate will probably stay at $8.99 per $1,000 assessed value; every […]
