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General News: Village Board Begins Work to Trim Budget
January 13, 2010
The Cornwall-on-Hudson board of trustees has just over two weeks to adopt a budget for 2011-12 and they are planning two meetings and a public hearing to hammer out the details.
When they meet, they must address how to reduce a preliminary $3.9 million budget that includes all of the expenditures requested by department heads, as well as contractual salary and benefit costs. The preliminary figures show the village spending eleven percent more than it had budgeted in the current year. Predicted revenue remains almost the same, resulting in what could be a 23.7 percent tax hike if no costs are cut.
In the expenditure column, the police department shows a savings on salaries of 15.8 percent. In November, the department announced plans to eliminate two full-time officer positions in a cost-cutting measure. Meanwhile the fire department is a requesting a 38 percent increase in its maintenance budget and a 33 percent increase in its firematic budget.
Other departments show little or no increase in salaries except for the treasurer position, whose budgeted salary would increase from $7,250 in the current year to $45,000. A fiscal auditor is budgeted for $15,900 in the preliminary 2011-12 budget, up from $7,500 currently.
The budget for legal fees are projected to remain the same as it is in the current year but a new budget item called “litigation expense” has been added at $30,000.
At their work session on Monday, board members made it clear that there is still a lot of work to do on the budget to determine where costs can be cut and they are likely to significantly reduce the projected tax increase. The board will hold special budget work sessions on January 18 at 5:30 pm and on January 24 at 6 pm before holding a public hearing on the tentative budget on January 27 at 6 pm. All meetings will take place at Village Hall.
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