Rockland Legislature Overrides 22 County Executive Line-Item Vetoes

CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. -- The Rockland County Legislature voted Tuesday to override all 22 of County Executive Ed Day’s line-item vetoes.

Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden Wolfe led the Legislature to override all 22 of County Executive Ed Day's budget vetoes.
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K Reakes

12/16/2015 1:00 p.m.

Legislators voted 13-3 to override the vetoes of 13 full-time-equivalent security positions and 12-4 to override the vetoes of six county Finance Department positions.

With the overrides, the Legislature's amended version of the 2016 county budget, a compromise spending plan cut in a bipartisan deal between some legislators and Day, takes effect Jan. 1.

The property tax increase for 2016 will be about 9.86 percent, or about $8 per month on an average tax bill. Day's vetoes would have put the increase at about 8.61 percent.

“This has been a long and detailed process as we sought to ensure adequate funding for county operations in 2016,” County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe said.

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