Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says the budget she presented today to the Monroe County Legislature continues a 20-year-tradition of holding property tax rates flat at $8.99 per $1,000 of assessed value. She proposes $1.2 Billion of spending for 2018, for an increase of 1.3 percent, which is below the rate of inflation. As usual, […]
The Monroe County Legislature spent about three hours debating and adopting the 2017 county budget Tuesday night. The $1.2 billion budget was adopted on a party line vote, 19 Republicans in favor to ten Democrats opposed. The budget was approved as written with one significant exception. It won’t fund the downtown DMV office that Monroe […]
Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo introduced her first county budget Tuesday night, pledging to hold the property tax rate flat. 2017 County Spending will total slightly less than $1.19 billion, which is an increase of less than one percent. Dinolfo told county legislators that abolishing the Local Development Corporations is saving the county $3.4 million, […]