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| Recent Updates:- Orange County Has Sent the 2011 Proposed O.C. Sewer District Budget to Municipal Leaders, August 31, 2010
This is an assessment of the 2011 OCSD Proposed Budget. Again the County has failed the OCSD users by providing them with a budget that has numerious omissions, errors and "trojan horses." The 2011 Proposed Budget understates revenue and expense for 2009 and 2010 as compared to the original budget; suggests a redistribution of the current allocations presumably to support those in need of capacity such as Kiryas Joel, Camp LaGuardia and the rebuilding of the County Government building; and, introduces the Kiryas Joel Plant into the budget presumably to pass the cost of that facility on to the OCSD/Moodna users.
- When will someone request an audit of this facility? Sewage money going to waste?, August 30, 2010
- The New Orange County Govenment Center July 19, 2010
Diana unveils his vision for new county building Orange County Executive Ed Diana presented plans on Tuesday to raze the 40-year-old county government center and replace it with two buildings on the same site — a project that would cost an estimated $114.4 million and take about five years to complete. County Presentation on Proposed Govenment Center
- 2009 Orange County Budget, My Predictions, July 17, 2010
Is the County Financial Sound? Is the county managing our dollars in accordance with the law. Since the County Government, including the County Executive and the County Legislature, do not follow the Budget process as defined in Article IV (Budget) of the Orange County Charter it does not. Is this being Fiscally Responsible?
- Orange County Population Planning is Flawed!, July 17, 2010
Does the County know how to project population growth? The County Planning department has stated that their population projections are just that, "projections" thus suggesting that we should not expect their projections to be accurate. However, this does not inhibit the County government from using these "projections" to plan how to spend millions in additional tax dollars.
- Water Master Plan Assessment
The Orange County Water Master Plan is a trojan horse, loaded with future taxes for our residents and benefits for special interest groups whom the county is rewarding for their support of this administration. Get informed and write your legislator and ask them, have they read these amendment and what they are doing to protect us.
- Affordable Housing Assessment
The Orange County Affordable Housing Amendment does not define the population or financial impacts of that amendment, and they are significant. This amendment combined with the unlimited water supply that the County also wants to force upon the residents and taxpayers of this county will bring a population explosion, costly litigation by those interested in building without regard for the environment and a tsunami of wastewater that will have to be handled by the exiting wastewater facilities at the taxpayers expense.
- Valley View Assessment
The Orange County Government is inhibiting the communications that are needed to enable the legislature to provide proper oversight of the County's Senior Residential Facility (Valley View). To further its efforts to close/outsource this facility it has been reporting a budget that is bloated with expenses that are not appropriate for this budget, or at least are questionable and has limited the oversight of this facility by giving the responsibility for fiscal management and reporting to the contracted vendor who is "managing" that facility.
- Orange County Sewer District
The Orange County Government has failed allow me access to the budget information that I have FOILed. This raises the question, What is the County Hiding? The Legislature's failure to provide oversight on this facility is demonstrated by the numerous THR articles on this facility and the frequent clashes with the locally elected officials who represent the users of this facility
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) stated, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
The Water master Plan is a good example.
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