BY MICHAEL RICONDA SUFFERN – The Village of Suffern passed its 2014-2015 budget at its Monday evening meeting with little fanfare. However, the budget does include slight increases in utility rates and a plan to stay within the state tax cap. Water rates will see a 5.1 percent increase from $2.92 to $3.03 while sewer […]
County executives Ed Day of Rockland, Rob Astorino of Westchester, and Maryellen Odell of Putnam will participate in a Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress panel discussion of county issues Friday, April 25, in Suffern. Astorino, Day and Odell are expected to field questions on topics ranging from county finances and the state tax cap, to […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day There’s been a lot of talk recently about Tuxedo Reserve and exactly what the residential housing development in Orange County means for the people of Rockland County. Developers have told me their plan is to build nearly 1,200 single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses on 1,200 acres of land in […]
JOINT LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester), Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski (D-New City), Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern), and Suffern Mayor Trish Abato held a press conference with a coalition of New Jersey legislators, Assemblyman Eustace and Assemblywoman Schepisi, to announce the inclusion of the Rockland-Bergen Flood Mitigation Task Force in the 2014-15 New York State […]
Tuxedo-Assembly candidate Dan Castricone this blasted a decision by federal bureaucrats that will soon impose a 10 percent electricity rate increase on Orange and Rockland County consumers and businesses. The rate hikes are the consequence of a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to create a ‘new capacity zone,’ in the Hudson Valley. […]
ALBANY…NYGOP Chair Ed Cox released the following statement after Comptroller Tom DiNapoli stated that he will no opt-in to public campaign financing: “After Comptroller DiNapoli did his job by pointing out that the Governor’s sham projected budget surplus is actually a $3.4 billion deficit, and that the Governor used $700 million in one-shot budget gimmicks […]