Onondaga County

MEMBERS PRESENT: Mr. May, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Burtis, Ms. Abbott, Mr. Knapp, Mr. Kinne, Mrs. Ervin
ALSO ATTENDING: Chairman Rowley, Ms. Gunnip, Ms. Cody, Ms. Kuhn, Dr. Chase, Mr. Olson,
Mr. McCarron, Mr. Bush, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Garland

Chair May called the 5:30 p.m. public hearing to order at 5:37 p.m. and stated that the resolution of the Legislature authorizing the public hearing had been entered into the record. The Clerk answered Chair May that the notice had been duly published.

• Everyone is here to talk about the 2024 operating budget for Onondaga County as presented by the County Executive to the Legislature, as reviewed by the Ways and Means Committee of the Legislature
• Full vote of the Legislature will be next Tuesday
• County Executive came over with 15% proposed rate decrease and $9M cut to property tax levy
• Significant increases year-over-year for workforce dev., housing, lead abatement, foster care and daycare
• Ways and Means Committee and Legislature responded to refinements and alignments to the baseline budget
• Substantial increases were made to public safety investments

Chair May called the following speakers to the podium:

• Dom Cambareri, Syracuse Challenger Baseball (statement attached)
• Marianna Pernia, Constituent (statement attached, read Oceanna Fair’s statement attached)
• Amy Dugliss, Executive Director of Advocates Incorporated (statement attached)
• JJ Potrikus, Constituent
• Jennifer Savastino, Constituent
• Rich Puitaki, Constituent
• Patti Marvin, Constituent (statement attached)
• Kathleen T. Koss, Constituent
• Philip Delaney, Constituent
• Jill Hurst-Wahl, OCPL Trustees President (statement attached)
• Anne Messenger, Board Chair of the CNY Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (statement attached)
• Maurice Brown, OCC Student Advisor (statement attached)
• Nick Cappoletti, Constituent
• MacDonald Carden, Constituent
• Herman Card, Constituent

Chair May asked if there were any other speakers wishing to be heard, and there were none.

The public hearing was adjourned at 6:40 p.m.

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