Ed Diana, Orange County ExecutiveOrange County's budget is more than twice as much as Ulster County's.
The Orange County budget is already in the hands of their Legislators.
Why don't Ulster County's Legislators have their budget in hand yet? In my opinion it's because our Administrator, Mike Hein, is too busy worrying about campaigning and trying to smear his opponent. We should be trying to help our local small businesses during these tough economic times, not accusing them of lying because they are not meeting "job creation" goals. This is not the time to be pushing more employees on struggling employers. It's time to bring other businesses to our County so that our residents can get good jobs to have a little spending money.
Can we get our finances in order, and get our budget done on time.... please?
And, we would like no property tax hike too.
| Orange executive proposes 2009 budget with no property tax hike |
| Mid-Hudson News Network |
GOSHEN - Orange County Executive Edward Diana has proposed a 2009 county budget that would not raise county property taxes.
The $674.5 million plan would authorize spending 3.76 percent more than the 2008 budget of $650 million.
Diana said, "We understand that the people of our county, state and nation are in the throes of serious economic uncertainty and every dollar is precious. We have seen our friends, neighbors and even members of our families struggling in this crisis. This government is committed to doing all in our power to lessen the burdens on our residents by controlling taxes and reducing spending."
To help offset the added expenses of the budget, Diana will seek to advance a county hotel/motel room tax, which he said would pull in an additional $2 million per year and not impact local residents.
The spending plan would also see 67 vacant positions eliminated.
"Thankfully, in past budgets we made preparations for these difficult times by maintaining reserve contingencies while adopting conservative budget practices," Diana said in his budget message. "Orange County will utilize a portion of our reserves to help balance this budget without burdening our taxpayers."
Early legislative reaction to the budget was favorable. Lawmakers will spend the next four weeks looking at the budget looking for ways to save money or shift it to be sure services are preserved.
3 comments:
where is our minority members right now? They should be screaming for a budget. It seems to me that our County Administrator is not doing his job if the budget is late.
The Common Council doesnt have their budget yet. The Mayor is trying to get it down to the 10% increase by eliminating jobs.
Dirtbag has a taxpayer SUV like Cindy Ruiz
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