Closing $9.2 Million Gap ‘Daunting,
Do-able,’ County Treasurer Declares
COOPERSTOWN – Closing the $9.2 million gap in Otsego County’s prospective 2016 budget is both “daunting and do-able,” county Treasurer Dan Crowell said today of what will be his seventh budget. He added, “I haven’t been through a budget year that’s been easy.”
He was commenting after county Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, Budget Review Committee chair, sent out a notice that preliminary budget meetings will be at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Crowell said he is required to submit the draft budget by mid-November, when it becomes public.
The county board is required to act on the budget at its December meeting, scheduled for Wednesday the 2nd. The public hearing is usually held a few days before that final action, Crowell said.
