I think this control board has been very generous with the county executive, reminds me of the Buffalo control board when they sent the cities budget back to the mayor over and over. When the mayor finally gave one that was acceptable it passed.
The city is getting back on track financially, the county is not and will not until Giambra and the county legislature start to make fiscally responsible decisions. I have a feeling this won’t come about until the control board becomes hard.
The legislature and county executive refuse to make the cuts it has to. They continue to turn their backs on the taxpayers and continue to create government jobs and take their marching orders from Democrat hdqtrs,
A friend of mine said it best a handfull of years ago.
When you enter the legislative chambers, leave your Party affiliations at the door. Until our politicians can do that, we will stay stagnant of continue our downhill slide.
Erie County Control Board Rejects Giambra’s Current Four-Year Plan
Erie County’s control board has rejected Joel Giambra’s four-year budget plan.
The Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority wants Giambra and county lawmakers to revise a four-year budget plan that was submitted earlier.
That plan contained assumptions about the use of sales tax revenue that currently goes to school districts.
The board is giving Giambra and lawmakers about six weeks to make changes.
A hard control board could result if the plan is not acceptable.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThats just what we need, another layer of UN-elected government in the form of a ‘hard’ control board, costing hundreds of thousands dollars in salary expenses alone. Even if they worked for free, why should these unelected individuals have any power to tell our democratically elected government how to govern? Its anything but democratic…
Hey, Hoyt sponsored the legislation to put the control board into place. Then he joins with the unions to protest them. Or was that just for the city?
If we had a government, including the county ex that could focus on running a government instead of an empployment agency, then we wouldn’t need a control board.
The way the government is being run currently is not democratic (BTW, this is supposed to be a Representative Republic). This county government and state government is all about serving themselves and giving troops jobs.
Until we have adults running government, then a control board is neccessary.
The Government in place is who a majority of the voters elected. If you disagree with who the voters elect and want to appoint who you think is better, perhaps you should move to China or some other dictatorship.
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