Common Council To Vote on Vetoed Budget

The Common Council will conduct a special public meeting Thursday at 7PM to vote on overturning a veto of the budget by Mayor Sebastian Giuliano.

While both sides met to discuss the budget, the resolution reads as follows:

In Accordance with Chapter VI, Finance and Taxation, Section 1 of the
City Charter, readopting all items that were vetoed in the 2009 – 2010
budget and that said budget be effective as adopted by the Common
Council at their meeting of May 14, 2009 at 7 p.m

In an email to a Middletown Eye contributor Mayor Sebastian Giuliano writes:

" Carl Erlacher, Diana Doyle, Tima Bomes, Debra Milardo, Geen and I came up with a proposed compromise that would ahve saved as much as $800K by keeping the union concessions in play, making some cuts (while preserving the great majority of their pet project spending) and using considerably less of the Cucia Park projected proceeds. Word is that the majority caucus is just going to override my veto and keep their own budget."

The Citizens Advisory Committee met Wednesday evening, and as a result of stimulus dollars provided to the city, restored funding to several organizations who had seen their annual contributions cut drastically or completely. If the Common Council takes the advice of the Citizens Advisory Committee, the St. Vincent DePaul Amazing Grace Pantry, which had been set to receive no funding, will now receive $6000 for the Pantry, and $10000 to perform a relocation study for their soup kitchen. In addition the Chamber of Commerce will move from $8000 to $19,0000.