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Finance Committee endorses Winter NYSAC resolutions on Medicaid cap, EMS and local tax control
Summary
Wyoming County's Finance Committee voted to carry multiple Winter NYSAC conference resolutions urging state action on Medicaid caps, EMS funding, county sales-tax control and other statewide items; Budget Officer J. Cook recorded objections to tax-cap changes.
Wyoming County's Finance Committee on April 7 approved a package of Winter NYSAC conference resolutions urging state action on several issues including preserving the county Medicaid cap, exempting emergency medical services from the real property tax cap and ensuring dedicated state funding for EMS, and reaffirming local control over county sales tax.
Supervisor Rudgers moved the resolutions and the committee recorded five ayes with three supervisors absent. Budget Officer J. Cook objected to one of the proposals on the record: "[I]s not in favor. Only peeling away little pieces. Tax Cap calculation is complicated enough. Just remove the cap," the minutes state. Committee Chair B. Kehl offered some support for Cook's comment during the discussion.
The resolutions also called for full state funding for community colleges and county reimbursement for SUNY Reconnect, an expedited equitable gaming compact with the Seneca Nation that protects local governments, and changes to workers' compensation law to extend paid family leave in cases of stillbirth or infant death. Each resolution was moved by Supervisor Rudgers and carried by the present five members. The committee recorded the votes for transparency; absent supervisors were Roberts, May and Smith.
No formal budgetary commitments by the county were made at the meeting; the items are resolutions intended for the county's delegates to the NYSAC Winter Conference and to signal the county's positions to state lawmakers.
