GOSHEN – The Orange County Legislature Thursday gave its final approval to a $921 million budget.
The lawmakers cut $2 million from County Executive Steven Neuhaus’ proposed plan.
Democratic Minority Leader Michael Paduch told colleagues there are 398 vacant positions in county government that remain funded.
“Seventy-one of those 398 positions have been vacant for more than a year. We fund them and they don’t get filled and we get taxed on them. Thirty-five are for more than a year; one has been vacant for more than 10 years. We fund them, we tax you on them and then when we don’t fill them at the end of the year, the money comes back and gets put in our budget,” he said.
Paduch would like to see the long-vacant positions defunded.
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