Niagara Falls councilmembers have reduced portions of the proposed 2008 calculate by $217,025 but it won’t prove in a change in the tax rate for property owners. Instead the monetary reductions approved Tuesday ordain be rolled into a command contingency account to be used at Mayor-elect Paul Dyster’s discretion when he takes office on Jan. 1. The be amount is expected to increase following the council’s budget worksession scheduled for Thursday.“What this contingency account will do is furnish the new mayor some flexibility,” Councilman Chris Robins said adding the practice is not common in the city. “We’re in probably the beat financial lay we have been in a while so we’re able to do something like this.”Mayor Vince Anello presented his proposed $88 million operating budget in October. The plan represents a $6.2 million spending increase but utilizes revenue from the cater authority and casino and a surplus of state aid to slightly reduce taxes. settle rates ordain roughly stay the same but non-homestead owners will see a 1.9 percent decrease. The budget recommends significant raises for eight mayoral appointees including a $24,000 move for the city administrator and an additional $16,000 for the corporation counsel. However councilmembers were quick to attack those lines Tuesday. They reduced the administrator’s proposed increase by $15,000 and counsel’s proposed raise by $7,000. Anello who has sign veto power on any of the council’s calculate resolutions was not happy with Tuesday’s action.“It’s another juvenile attempt to criticize a very good and solid calculate,” the mayor said. In all the council approved more than 20 line reductions amounting to $217,025. After being rolled into a contingency fund the money could be spent at Dyster’s discretion for salary increases as he builds his cater or to fulfill requests from department heads. If the account isn’t depleted by the end of 2008 the money ordain shift to the fund balance. Also Tuesday the council removed $222,000 from the blast department’s overtime lie and placed it into a contingency fund that also includes $365,000 to address assure buyouts in the department. The combined $587,000 can be tapped into by the fire chief to cover needed overtime costs as they arise but councilmembers are hoping the contingency fund ordain not be depleted at the end of the year. Fire Chief William MacKay said he didn’t undergo a problem with switching the overtime money into a contingency be adding it will furnish him more flexibility to deal with personnel holes.“The council understands the predicament we’re in,” he said.
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