HOMETOWN HAPPENINGS: Redefining In(Sain)ity

HOMETOWN HAPPENINGS: Redefining In(Sain)ity

By Supervisor George Hoehmann The classic, unattributed quote defining insanity is โ€œdoing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.โ€ In the case of the Rockland County Legislatureโ€™s recalcitrance on the Sain Building, it should be amended to read that insanity โ€œis failing to do something very obviously beneficial to the people […]

County Executiveโ€™s Corner: โ€œAlways Forwardโ€

County Executiveโ€™s Corner: โ€œAlways Forwardโ€

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day We are moving forward,ย remaking our government, making it more effective, more streamlined, less costly. We have moved 150 employees, out of the deteriorating and decrepit Sain Building, into renovated and spacious offices in Building A at our Pomona Campus. Rockland County has been given a chance to do something […]

County Executiveโ€™s Corner: Getting it Done Together

County Executiveโ€™s Corner: Getting it Done Together

  By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Itโ€™s been at least a decade since a budget submitted by the County Executive won the unanimous approval of the Legislature. The fact that the $684.29 million spending plan I submitted in October made its way through weeks of reviews essentially unchanged and was approved by every member […]

County Executiveโ€™s Corner: Lights off at the Sain Building

County Executiveโ€™s Corner: Lights off at the Sain Building

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Itโ€™s especially fitting that as my first term as County Executive comes to an end and I plan for the second, we are getting ready to turn the lights off at the Sain Building. Itโ€™s fitting because the Sain Building represents both the difficulties of our past and the […]

Rockland County Employees Move into Building A Offices

Rockland County Employees Move into Building A Offices

COUNTY PRESS RELEASEโ€“ Forty-two county employees have moved from the Sain building into new offices in the Dr. Robert L. Yeager Health Center in Pomona. “We know that the Sain building was old, out of date, in bad shape and uncomfortable for everyone,” County Executive Ed Day the employees as he greeted them in the […]

COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S CORNER: Sweetening the Sain Deal

COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S CORNER: Sweetening the Sain Deal

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Next month marks an anniversary that I canโ€™t believe we are reaching: Two years since I presented to the Legislature a budget that included the sale of the Sain building. The Legislature approved that budget. Yet the Sain building remains unsold despite a willing and well financed buyer who […]