GOSHEN – The state-appointed monitor to oversee all activities of the Orange County Industrial Development Agency is expected to be announced in April.
The state Inspector General’s Office has been assigned to select the individual and oversee the process for two years.
While IDA Executive Director Bill Fioravanti believes a monitor is not necessary, he welcomes the oversight.
“It’s superfluous in my mind because we have never been cited by the state comptroller’s office or the authorities budget office or the governor or the Orange County Legislature or anyone for doing anything wrong, so it is not necessary,” he said. “This senator made sure that we Orange County taxpayers have to pay for it, so it is extra, certainly for show but I am confident that it will show that we have done everything properly all along.”
Senator James Skoufis (D, Cornwall) passed legislation requiring the monitor who will have the power to veto all decisions made by the IDA board.
