Montco Looks Toward 2013
Commissioners say they're still dealing with 'omissions of decisions' and 'lies' built into the financial situation they inherited from the previous county administration.
Montgomery County is well into the process of assembling its 2013 operating budget, but it's still having some trouble reckoning with its 2012 operating budget. In presenting his third quarterly budget update, county chief financial officer Uri Monson said that the county's operating deficit had widened during the third quarter, from $1.7 million to about $3.9 million. The deficit remains down from the $10 million figure identified shortly after the current administration took office in January. Monson placed the primary blame for the third quarter increase on state funding cuts for mental and behavioral health services, an explanation with which Commissioner Bruce Castor took issue. While acknowledging the state cuts, Castor, who has …
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jxjipper
1:44 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
In response to Joe Public and not the other two.....Jack and Patrick you are so off point on this whole conversation take your partisan pissing match to a corn field somewhere. How is disenfranchising 2600 people with below 70 IQ's gonna benefit anyone. If the County wants to throw this population under the bus for $40,000 the we'd better become real Progressives like some of you think you are. … more ›