At tonight's Middeltown Township Workshop meeting, the members of the Committee intend to introduce Emergency Appropriation Resolution 09-277 .
As I posted Thursday, the intention of this resolution is to borrow against next years budget $1.5 million, in order to pay worker's compensation claims and other employee medical benefits.
With just a few weeks left in the calendar year, this emergency appropriation is scandalous. How can it be possible, as the resolution states that "...no adequate provision was made in the 2009 budget for the aforesaid purpose..." ?
Why wasn't this caught earlier in the year when some other solution may have been possible? After all, the budget wasn't adopted until August for peete's sake. Some one must have known about this before now.
This is a prime example of why Sean Byrnes's proposed Finance Committee is needed! It shows that the individual Township Committee members do not have the time, experience or expertise to act as their own "individual finance committee" as stated by the GOP members who are opposed to Byrnes's idea.
2010 is already shaping up to be an ugly budget year, this resolution will only make it that much worse.
Tonight's meeting will be at Town Hall and will start at 8 pm, if you would like to express your concerns about this resolution I suggest that you get there early because sitting is limited.
Residents need to let the committee know that this type of appropriation of funds is unacceptable and could have been avoided if planned for properly.
A Finance Committee could have foreseen such a problem in advance and advised the powers that be of this type of potential problem.
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