Oswego city lawmakers hold a public forum tonight on next fiscal year’s city budget.
The Post-Standard reports they’ll get an earful about one piece of the budget plan: closing the city’s only public pool to save money.
The meeting is at 6:00 p.m. in the McCrobie Bldg. on Lake St.
A recent Siena College Research Poll released last week reported that three quarters of New Yorkers say Gov. David Paterson and the State Legislature should cut spending rather than raise taxes or borrow money. Only 10 percent support increasing taxes and 9 percent favor borrowing money. New Yorkers also overwhelmingly believe that spending should be cut but not to education or health care.
A month remains before Oswego County lawmakers are required to seal a budget for the coming year. Before that happens, the public and the Legislature will have their say on the plan. The county will host its annual public hearing on the budget Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. After the hearing, the Legislature will have an opportunity to debate potential changes to the spending plan.
State Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine today expressed his disappointment that lawmakers returned to Albany, but took no action to modify this year’s budget to close budget gaps.
Oswego County municipal leaders are keeping their eyes on the state today, watching for potential changes to the state budget and the affects those changes could have on the county’s bottom line for 2009. According to County Administrator Phil Church, the budget deficit at the state level is making it difficult for counties to seal their own spending plans with confidence.
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