Supervisors haggle over $34,000
NORWICH – A $34,000 state grant intended to fight obesity in Chenango County isn’t anything he intended to pass up, and after making a case for it four times, Public Health Director Dr. Marcas Flindt finally won approval from county lawmakers to take advantage of it.
Flindt said if Chenango County didn’t take the money, then it would simply be divvied up amongst other counties that were. “Why should we give them our money?” he asked.
Flindt’s standing committee had originally approved his request, and its members weren’t happy that their fellow supervisors on the Finance Committee had overruled them. Town of German Supervisor Rick Schlag, who sits on Finance and Health and Human Services, said some supervisors were concerned about spending money on a program and then not being reimbursed for it, as well as beginning an activity that would require personnel or maintenance costs later on.
The supervisor from New Berlin said when resolutions are rejected by another committee (in most cases it’s Finance), then the referring committee “ought to have a say back, not just knock it on its head.”
“The whole board sets policy, not just the Finance Committee,” Ross Iannello said.
Smyrna Supervisor James Bays said he had never seen the state “pull the rug out from under a program.”
“I’m not sure what the Finance Committee was thinking,” he said.
“If they (the state) runs out of money paying us $34,000, then we’re all in trouble,” said Iannello.
Flindt said the particulars of the grant weren’t clearly spelled out initially. He was able to clarify that the reimbursement wouldn’t come from federal stimulus funds, and was a general state grant program that would be a one-time expense.
Public Health plans to direct the money toward Chenango Greenway trail development, parks improvement and sporting equipment for The Place and Head Start.
Two members of the Finance Committee still voiced opposition to accepting the grant. “I’ll move it, but I doubt it’ll do any good,” said Harry Conley, R-Sherburne. Town of Pharsalia Supervisor Dennis Brown voted against the measure.
Flindt said if Chenango County didn’t take the money, then it would simply be divvied up amongst other counties that were. “Why should we give them our money?” he asked.
Flindt’s standing committee had originally approved his request, and its members weren’t happy that their fellow supervisors on the Finance Committee had overruled them. Town of German Supervisor Rick Schlag, who sits on Finance and Health and Human Services, said some supervisors were concerned about spending money on a program and then not being reimbursed for it, as well as beginning an activity that would require personnel or maintenance costs later on.
The supervisor from New Berlin said when resolutions are rejected by another committee (in most cases it’s Finance), then the referring committee “ought to have a say back, not just knock it on its head.”
“The whole board sets policy, not just the Finance Committee,” Ross Iannello said.
Smyrna Supervisor James Bays said he had never seen the state “pull the rug out from under a program.”
“I’m not sure what the Finance Committee was thinking,” he said.
“If they (the state) runs out of money paying us $34,000, then we’re all in trouble,” said Iannello.
Flindt said the particulars of the grant weren’t clearly spelled out initially. He was able to clarify that the reimbursement wouldn’t come from federal stimulus funds, and was a general state grant program that would be a one-time expense.
Public Health plans to direct the money toward Chenango Greenway trail development, parks improvement and sporting equipment for The Place and Head Start.
Two members of the Finance Committee still voiced opposition to accepting the grant. “I’ll move it, but I doubt it’ll do any good,” said Harry Conley, R-Sherburne. Town of Pharsalia Supervisor Dennis Brown voted against the measure.
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