One of our contentions in our lawsuit against the county executive is that the lease with Gannon breached his fiduciary duty to the taxpayers of Erie County. In keeping with that pattern, his proposed 2025 is, well, I don’t think I can say it better than Erie County Council: Erie County Council: Davis’ budget has $700,000 of extra deficits. And while the county executive is politicizing public safety by making claims on his re-election Facebook page that council is refusing to fund a county EMS authority, it was revealed during today’s (November 19th) budget hearing that EMS and municipal GAP funding was authorized in 2024, but the county executive didn’t utilize those funds. Most of the funds still remain the account! November 19, 2024 County Council Second Public Budget Hearing (1:12:45). There was also discussion about ARPA funds and how they are to be use for people that truly need the funds. Don’t forget that the county executive made sure that Project NepTWNE received $1.5 million, however–just $1 million less than he has budgeted for the EMS authority. You can learn more about the budget at the Jefferson Educational Society tomorrow (November 20th): Making Sense of Erie County Residents’ Dollars and Cents
This pattern of behavior is why we are suing to dissolve the lease of Blasco Library. For the good of Erie County, this lack of fiscal irresponsibility can’t be allowed to continue.
“The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
~Stan Gudder
Keep Our Library Public! 