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General News: Draft Village Budget Cuts Spending 10.9%
December 28, 2011
By Charlie B. Scirbona
With a special work session focusing on the budget set for January 2, the current draft of the proposed 2012-2013 budget for the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson shows a spending decrease of aalmost 11 percent from the current year’s budget.
Village Mayor Brendan Coyne said much of the work on the budget is looking to remove overestimations from the previous budget. He pointed to a $108,357 reduction in proposed revenue from garbage removal charges and the removal of $219,880 from anticipated Emergency Disaster Assistance revenue. This was the FEMA grant to stabilize the shoreline that the village determined was insufficient to do the work and would have left the village liable for additional costs.
The Village’s total proposed budget for the 2012-2013 general, water and sewer funds is $6,341,667
The village’s proposed water budget revenue is also down more than half a million dollars, from $3,003,951 to $2,445,050. While most departments’ salaries remain stagnant, the line in the general fund for police salaries shows almost an eight percent decrease and the treasurer’s salary would drop from $45,000 to $3,000.
The village board will hold the special work session on the budget on Tuesday at 5 pm, and a public hearing on January 9.
The current draft budget would result in a two-percent tax levy increase, if adopted as is.
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In an effort to promote government transparency and accountability, Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, created Open Book New York, an easy-to-use website providing public access to information on how New York State and its local governments are spending your tax dollars. Through Open Book New York, taxpayers can retrieve up to 15 years of financial information for individual units of local government. Users can now easily compare their government?s revenue, expenditure, and tax trends with those of other local governments, regardless of class. In addition, users can drill down to retrieve additional information on each category of revenue and expense for an individual local government or for an entire class of local governments (e.g., all cities).
Find it here: http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/LocalGov/localgovintro.cfm You could also go to the village "clerk-treasurer but the information you get will necessarily be limited.
posted by dave house on 12/29/11 at 1:23 PM
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