Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says she’s reducing the fee that some low-income families pay for subsidized child care. At a press conference yesterday, she said she instructed the county Department of Social Services to lower that fee from 35 percent to 25 percent of a household’s income above the federal poverty level. The move, […]
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Youth ask county for climate plan
In light of federal inaction on climate change, a group of Rochester-area young people is asking the County Legislature make Monroe County carbon neutral by 2050. The Rochester Youth Climate Leaders, an interscholastic group of middle and high school students, made their request during the Legislature’s May 14 meeting. The group wants the Legislature to […]
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County unveils opioid strategy
Opioids are taking a lot of lives, and communities everywhere are struggling to contain the still unfurling epidemic. Monroe County officials today released an Opioid Action Plan, which is meant to combat what County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo called “one of the most challenging public health crises our nation faces.” The Monroe County Medical Examiners office identified […]
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Legislature approves 2018 county budget
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 […]
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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 tries I-Square damage control
Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinfolo isn’t changing her story on I-Square, but she’s released some e-mails and memos to back it up. An emotional, contrite Dinolfo held a press conference this morning to explain, as she put it, what she knew, when she knew it, and how she knew it in this scandal that has […]
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Dinolfo asks state lawmakers to help dismantle LDC’s
Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says that dissolving two county-linked local development corporations will save taxpayers a few million dollars in debt and administrative costs. But she needs the State Legislature to pass a new law to make it happen. The LDC’s have one source of income and that’s the county, which has multi-decade contracts […]
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GOP proposes integrity office amendments
County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo wants to make some changes to her public integrity office proposal, which she introduced last month. They’re big ones, most of them dealing with the office’s director. County Legislature Majority Leader Brian Marianetti will introduce the changes as amendments tomorrow night when the Legislature takes up the proposal. The Legislature will […]
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Dems say proposed integrity office lacks independence
The office’s director would be appointed by the county exec and confirmed by the Legislature.
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Animals on the carousel? Yes. Racist art, no
Landmarks can be altered. And removing a painted panel that mocks African Americans is a darned good reason to do it.
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Dinolfo asks LDC’s to dissolve
County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has asked the two county-linked local development corporations at the center of a bid-rigging case to dissolve. Dinolfo sent letters to Upstate Telecommunications Corporation and the Monroe Security and Safety Systems LDC boards asking each to adopt a resolution pledging that they’ll “take all steps necessary to dissolve in an orderly […]
