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Legislature debates whether to budget $5.4M for county nursing home; Chair warns of tax impact
Summary
The Sullivan County Legislature debated whether to budget an estimated $5.4 million to cover nursing-home costs, with the Chair warning the added expense could push a projected 9.1% tax increase closer to about 16% if included.
The Sullivan County Legislature held a lengthy, sometimes heated debate about how to handle ongoing expenses tied to the county nursing home and whether to place those costs directly in next year’s budget.
"We have a nursing home that people have been kicking down the road for the last four years," the Chair (Speaker 2) said, arguing the legislature must either budget for the facility or stop funding repairs. "If we do not budget for the nursing home, then something has to give here... I'm not gonna keep taking money out of the cookie jar because eventually there'd be no money left to…
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