Wayne ends year with financial relief

DAVID HULSE
Posted 8/21/12

HONESDALE, PA — With Gov. Tom Wolf’s long-awaited signing of a partial budget, the Wayne County Commissioners were able to cancel numerous social-service cutbacks scheduled to begin this …

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Wayne ends year with financial relief

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HONESDALE, PA — With Gov. Tom Wolf’s long-awaited signing of a partial budget, the Wayne County Commissioners were able to cancel numerous social-service cutbacks scheduled to begin this week.

A December 30 press release said the county had “received confirmation from the Pennsylvania Treasury Department that Human Services funding has been enacted…” As a result “NO REDUCTION in any services will occur in Wayne County.”

State funding was expected to arrive in 10 to 14 days.

Funding for schools and other human-services groups was released along with county funding.

Following a six-month legislative impasse, Wolf last week vetoed portions of a $30.3 billion state budget, but agreed to release about $23 billion in emergency funding for schools, counties and human services agencies.

Dependent on state funding for up to 80% of some human services programs, Wayne last week issued plans to cut back portions of senior citizens, mental health and drug and alcohol programs.

The commissioners also added $500,000 to their annual tax anticipation borrowing as insurance against further extension of the budget impasse.

In other business, the commissioners received word from the New York Department of Transportation’s application to the PA Department of Environmental Protection for a permit to conduct upcoming extensive deck and structural repairs to the Damascus-Cochecton Delaware River interstate bridge. No date or timeframe for the work was given.

They also approved a $34,303 contract with Bognet Inc., of Hazel Township for repairs to the boiler room steps at the county’s Park Street Center, and encumbrance of $161,930 in Liquid Fuel Tax funds for the replacement of the Fortina Bridge #40 on the Bear Swamp Road in Texas Township.

Following a PennDOT mandate, the commissioners created a new, consumer-weighted, Wayne County Transportation Advisory Board and named 10 members, including Rose Camilleri, Donnalee Carbone, Charlotte Sobolak, Lillian Seana, Patricia Biondo, Jeannette Sanpietro, Eric Samson, Ronald Sporter and William Gillette. They appointed Mount Pleasant Township Auditor Patrick Flynn as the group’s sole elected representative member.

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