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Putnam legislators move most COLA items out of subcontingency after dispute over county executive actions
Summary
After a heated debate about the county executive placing selected cost-of-living adjustments and outside-agency funding in subcontingency, the legislature voted to move COLAs for the county clerk, sheriff, coroner, county executive and the legislative office into the active budget lines; at least one legislator voted no on some items.
A substantive procedural dispute emerged during the Putnam County Audit & Administration Committee meeting when legislators challenged the county executive’s decision to place certain cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) and outside-agency funding into subcontingency rather than leaving them in the legislative budget.
Legislator Yanke said he had earlier submitted a spreadsheet asking the county executive to apply the management COLA across affected lines and called the placement in subcontingency "not honored." Legislator Nestarino described the…
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