NEW CITY – The state comptroller’s office has reviewed Rockland County’s proposed 2016 budget drafted by County Executive Edwin Day and determined that “the significant revenue and expenditure projections… are reasonable.”
Day proposed a policy of reducing the audited year-end general fund unreserved deficit fund balance each year by a minimum of 10 percent.
The state review said Day will accomplish that “via conservative budgetary practices and running government more efficiently, which has already yielded impressive savings during the first two years of his administration.”
That will create a general fund operating surplus and will avoid an additional burden on county taxpayers, the state auditors said. If the 10 percent surplus is not achieved due to some unanticipated reason, Republican Day will add any shortfall to his following years’ budget.
County Legislature Chairman Alden Wolfe and Budget and Finance Committee Chairman Michael Grant, both Democrats, have a different interpretation of the state budget review. They note some of the same concerns they expressed earlier, specifically no funding set aside for deficit reduction; a $4 million one-shot sale of a county building to pay for operating expenses; and no revenues for hospital and nursing home operations for 2016.
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