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Ruffles Uses CHIPS,

Plus Low-Cost Debt,

To Balance '21 Budget

County Treasurer's Model May

Provide A Roadmap For Reps

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Ruffles at today's Zoom meeting. (AllOTSEGO.com photo)

COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County’s roads are paved with gold, County Treasurer Allen Ruffles has discovered.

And that gold can balance the county’s 2021 budget and keep the tax-rate increase under the state-mandated 2 percent next year, Ruffles told the county board’s Budget Committee today.

In unveiling a preliminary county budget that county treasurers are required to submit to Albany by mid-November, Ruffles said the prospective budget gap has already been reduced from $13.5 million to $5.4 million through cuts and anticipate efficiencies.

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