Rockland’s County Executive handed off his 2021 budget proposal to the legislature last week. Ed Day said he was disappointed the legislature turned down, along party lines, his suggestion for a tentative half percent sales tax increase…
Rockland Business Association CEO Al Samuels says the legislature let politics get in the way of a good fiscal roadmap…
The $729 million budget proposal would raise county property taxes by about $34 per homeowner and 154 jobs will go unfilled, though there wouldn’t be any layoffs. The legislature will start to review the proposal, hold a public hearing and then vote on it in December.