Steinhaus says lawmakers have “basic lack of understanding” over Dutchess RRA management
POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus went head to head with the county legislature again, this time over the position of county solid waste commissioner and the county’s resource recovery agency.Legislator James Miccio had written to him seeking appointment of a commissioner. Steinhaus fired back in a Friday, February 4 letter obtained by MidHudsonNews.com that the county charter does not say the commissioner provides oversight of RRA operations and finances. “If that is the expectation of you or the current legislature, there is a basic lack of understanding of the structure of the agency as designed by the legislature when it was created and adopted the original enabling legislation for the RRA decades ago.”Steinhaus told Miccio the legislature should “do what you have failed to do in the last two annual budget cycles – appropriate the resources necessary in the 2011 adopted budget to fully staff a solid waste department.” 

On September 14, 2010, By James R

Valley Views: Finally, problems at RRA taken seriously
 
SANDY GOLDBERG * SEPTEMBER 14, 2010/  See www.doxseydistrict1.com , Archives in September 2010 for complete History and what the County Executive Steinhaus wants and what he is now saying DURING  HIS  ELECTION  Year.