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Monroe County Council opens 2026 budget hearings as public urges health funding be preserved
Summary
Councilors read 2026 budgets into the record and set second readings for Oct. 14; public commenters and several councilors urged preserving health department funding and criticized proposed reversion of COVID and health levy dollars.
The Monroe County Council on Tuesday read multiple 2026 budget ordinances into the record and opened public hearings on them, setting second readings and final votes for Oct. 14. The council read into the record the proposed budgets for the county government, the Monroe County Waste Reduction District and the Monroe Fire Protection District, then took public comment before closing the hearings for those items. Members of the public used the hearings to press the council on public-health funding. Dr. Lisa Hannah Robinson, speaking as a private citizen, urged the council not to cut levy-funded lines that support the Monroe County Health Department and said $3 million in shortfall should not be remedied by reducing the department’s…
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