More progress on economic front, Day says

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SUFFERN – Rockland County Executive Edwin Day is promising more economic progress moving into 2016.  He made comments to the Rockland Business Association on Thursday.

Day: “… a path to prosperity”

Day warned, though, that the county’s fiscal woes will not end overnight.
“We look at this budget as putting Rockland County on a path to prosperity,” he said.  “There is no way we can fix where we are in a flash and I know we have some elected officials who think that can happen; it’s going to take time.”
Day noted that mandated spending and the 2016 property tax cap are putting undue stress on the county, making it so that valued services of the county will have to undergo cuts.
“The goal is not just to get us a little better. The goal is not to get out of deficit. The goal is to go to surplus, where we were at one time and have an extremely healthy, viable county in more than just finances too.”
Day and RBA President Al Samuels are expecting between Rockland’s volume of state Consolidated Funding Applications that with the county government’s intensive work on the budget, 2016 will bring improvement to the county.  Rockland submitted 352 of those applications.




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