Sullivan County 2023 budget approved in split vote

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Members of the Sullivan County Legislature. MHNN file photo.
DA Meagan Galligan

MONTICELLO – The Sullivan County Legislature Thursday approved a $267 million 2023 budget in a split vote.

The spending plan includes money for a housing study, roads and bridges and blighted properties, among other items.

A proposal to transfer an investigator’s position from the district attorney’s office to the sheriff’s office was taken off the table after DA Meagan Galligan opposed it in no uncertain terms.

“I oppose the idea that the district attorney, the chief law enforcement official in this county doesn’t have authority ore say in who investigates some of the most criminal cases in this county. In fact, I do,” she told county legislators.

Sheriff Michael Schiff, meanwhile, told Galligan that if the legislature were to adopt the budget amendment, he would not fill the position.

In the end, there was so much opposition by lawmakers that the amendment never came up.

Legislators, did however, adopt another amendment providing a two percent pay raise for non-union members of the DA’s office.




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