Share This On FacebookLast week, Dutchess County Super Majority Republican Party, 18 of them out of a total of 25 Legislators, otherwise known as the (GOP), passes Multiples of Millions of bonds. Local Media has not even mentioned what they were for nor anything about Spending Dutchess County Taxpayers monies for them. Why,? How is it allowed for the GOP to do this and get away with slight of hand? One would think when this type of news happens, the medias would print them. Maybe some are biased? I believe this is so, otherwise everyone would be speaking of the carelessness of Dutchess County Legislators. Fiscal responsability should be a Priority. Hopefully when the media finally prints what is going on and who is Spending Large, Huge Millions of your Dollars, the Public would be in an outrage. Maybe that is the intention after all? Not to inform the people who is spending?
| Dutchess to appropriate more money to house inmates in other counties |
| POUGHKEEPSIE – The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office needs an additional $1.6 million to pay for the housing out of inmates. The county jail is old and too small to accommodate the number of prisoners held in the Poughkeepsie facility. County lawmakers will approve $1.6 million to cover the cost, but jail Administrator George Krom couldn’t promise them that would be the last time he comes back for money before the end of the year.“Just like last year and the year before, I know you don’t want to over give me money,” he told the Public Safety Committee. “I may come back for some money, I don’t know; it depends on the population.” As of last Thursday, the housed out population was 181 inmates. The highest housed out population was 183.
The legislature is also set to appropriate $1 million for sheriff’s department overtime. |
Doxsey writes: This was a Priority for the past years, yet nothing is being done to correct the problem. We are pouring Dollars after Dollars to other Counties, the time to stop was long ago. Still to this day not 1 viable plan has passed. Many have been introduced, the Super Majority GOP fails again and again. We’ll just have to wait for a new regime? Sad, very sad indeed. Will the new Executive be an arm of the existing?
| Dutchess lawmakers take first step to build medical examiner’s facilities |
| POUGHKEEPSIE – With the Dutchess County medical examiner having to use loaned hospital space for procedures, the county legislature took the first step toward building a full scale facility for the office.
Lawmakers in committee Thursday voted to issue $4.3 million in bonds to pay for part of the cost to buy the property and building at 170 Washington Street in Poughkeepsie and build a 5,000 square foot addition on it for the medical examiner. The building, which the county leases at present, is used for records storage. Democratic Minority Leader Sandra Goldberg said before the county expends that kind of money, it should look at other space options. “Whether it is the armory, whether it’s the psychiatric center; before we purchase this and take it off the tax rolls, I think we should be looking at some other things,” Goldberg said. Conservative Legislator James Doxsey suggested the county conduct a study into sharing services with other counties. Republican Deputy Majority Angela Flesland said building adequate medical examiner facilities is long overdue. “This is certainly not something that is being rushed. This is something that we needed to do a long time ago and did not,” Flesland said. Republican legislator Dale Borchert told his colleagues that the county will soon have to pay rent on the current hospital facilities not to mention the rent it is paying for records storage in the Washington Street building. |
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