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Ways & Means reviews tentative 2026 budget as foster care, staffing and security cuts draw scrutiny
Summary
Cayuga County's Ways & Means committee held an extended review of the tentative 2026 budget, focusing on a $1.7 million local-share increase for foster care, proposed staff reductions, cuts to professional-services lines (including security) and debate over how the effective tax rate is presented.
The Ways & Means committee of the Cayuga County Legislature spent its Nov. 13 meeting conducting a department-by-department review of the county's tentative 2026 budget, with legislators pressing the budget director on service cuts, revenue assumptions and tax-rate messaging.
Budget Director Lynn laid out line-item changes across public health, mental health, social services and other offices, telling the committee "The local share cost has increased $1,700,000 for foster care," and noting several positions were added, moved to grant-funded status, or eliminated to balance the draft budget. Committee members asked for more detail about where specific savings would come from before they could vote on any changes.
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