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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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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So long, intercept
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks says the sales tax intercept has saved the county $30 million in Medicaid costs since it took effect in 2008, but now she wants to repeal it. The intercept, controversial when it was introduced, is an arrangement where the state takes approximately half of the county’s sales tax revenue and, […]
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Are you mad yet?
It’s hard to analyze Jack Doyle’s 2004 budget proposal thoroughly. But having spent a good bit of last week reading it, I’ve reached some conclusions, having nothing to do with whether we ought to up the sales tax to pull ourselves out of the hole we’re in. One conclusion is that at the end […]
