MONTICELLO – Sullivan County Manager Josh Potosek, Thursday, unveiled his proposed 2023 budget of $267 million with no increase in the property tax levy.
The manager said in his 16 years of developing county spending plans, this one is the most cautious.
“It has been probably the most fiscally conservative, most fiscally sound budget I think we have probably ever submitted in that time period; not appropriating debt or fund balance,” he said. “People will be surprised to see that the solid waste access fee as proposed will be entirely eliminated.”
Potosek’s proposed spending plan also includes $21 million for road and bridgework; $5 million toward creation of an indoor arena at SUNY Sullivan; $1 million to keep the county’s bus service operating at expanded levels, $200,000 for a housing study; $200,000 for employee training, higher education and leadership development; $200,000 to demolish blighted properties through the county’s land bank;$150,000 for a countywide parks master plan; and additional funding for the SUNY Sullivan scholarship program, the youth bureau and the bureau of fire’s firefighter recruitment effort.
