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    The Ins And Outs Of Giambra's Red Budget

    THE INS AND OUTS OF GIAMBRA'S RED BUDGET

    The only budget before the Legislature is the "Red Budget." The Legislature may amend the proposed budget and must adopt a final 2005 Budget no later than Tuesday, December 7, 2004. The following are facts from the proposed 2005 budget introduced by the County Executive and filed with the Legislature:

    IN -Raises for Political Appointees
    · Includes a $17,168 raise for an appointee in the Budget Department
    · A $9,000 raise for an appointee in the Social Services Department
    · Creates a new job $80,929 job in the Social Services Department
    · The 2005 Budget continues to include: Budget Resolution # 61 - Which allows for Giambra Appointees to carry over vacation credit balances and gives Giambra Appointees 4 weeks of vacation effective January 1,2005. It would take any other county employee 9 years of service to earn 4 weeks of vacation in one year.
    · It retains a non-mandated position of Director of Fleet Services at a salary of $81,316

    OUT -Public Safety
    · Eliminates the County's homicide, sexual assault, domestic violence and narcotics units
    · Leaves every single town and village in the county with no one to prosecute the crimes in their town courts and resulting in thousands of criminal offenders possibly going unpunished
    · 50% of the County's probation officers will be cut, leaving almost no one to supervise the thousands of felons who are out of jail
    · The Budget will cut all County fire instructors, leaving no one to train our first responders in our volunteer fire companies
    · The County Executive's budget cuts all law enforcement-training instructors in the Central Police Services training academy, leaving no one to train our police officers
    · It eliminates the County's law enforcement forensics lab so deeply that its head says that the lab would essentially be shut down

    IN -More Office Furniture
    · $58,460 for Office Furniture

    OUT- County Parks & Golf Courses
    · The Budget eliminates 90% of the County parks workers
    · None of the County Parks or Golf Courses will be open in 2005

    IN -Improvements to our Parks
    · Even though our parks are closed, the budget includes $3 Million in the Capital Budget of the Parks Master Plan
    · $275,000 for Grover Cleveland Cart Path Installation when Grover Cleveland Golf Course will be closed.

    OUT –Libraries
    · All 52 of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries will be closed on January 1, 2005
    · Borrowing from the Libraries will discontinue on December 7th, 2004

    IN -Library Materials
    · Despite there will be no Libraries open, there is $14 million for library supplies -books, media, and capital projects.

    OUT -Road Maintenance & Improvements
    · The County Executive's budget eliminates all highway and bridge engineers and road and bridge inspectors, leaving no one to check our bridges and roads or repair our bridges and roads
    · It cuts highway road crews so severely that the County will be unable to plow most of its roads this winter or pave roads in the summer

    IN -Out of Area Travel
    · $135,947 for Out of Area Travel

    OUT -Public Health Services
    · The County Executive's budget cuts the medical examiners - office so much that the health commissioner has said he won't be able to recover dead bodies in a safe or timely manner
    · It cuts 90% of the staff in Emergency Medical Services, including all of the county's 911 paramedic dispatchers and the hazardous materials and life support staff
    · It eliminates all of the nurses in the Buffalo Public and Parochial schools leaving no nurses in any schools
    · The budget cuts 50% of the staff and funding for dental health-a program that is almost entirely funded by grants
    · The County Executive's budget cuts 60% of the public health nurses in Erie County
    · It eliminates the state- funded primary care services program by 66%, leading to the loss of millions in state aid
    · The budget removes funding and staff for the County's rodent control and Lyme Disease/West Nile Virus control programs
    · It cuts funding and staff for the restaurant and food service sanitary inspectors
    · The budget completely eliminates funding and staff for the HIV/AIDS program

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    Giambra didn't do his job

    He threw this mess together in the hopes of the legislature saying, no it isn't possible, Here Joel, he is another 130 million for you to piss away. (extra %) They aren't biting and are crafting their own budget, he doesn't like it, so now he wants a compromise. (OK I'll share)I hope they show him the door.

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