- By Marcia E. Lynch
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Legislature Authorizes Reallocation of Unspent FundsBy a vote of 9 to 2, the Legislature authorized 17 county departments to use surplus funds from 2006 to support current year expenses. (Legislators Dooley Kiefer and Pam Mackesey voted no; Legislators Dick Booth, Kathy Luz Herrera, Tyke Randall and Nathan Shinagawa were absent).) County Finance Director David Squires has certified $1.3 million in unspent appropriations and excess revenues and, pursuant to county fiscal policy, departments requested $1.1 million of that amount be rolled over to support department needs this year.
Mackesey said her opposition stems from structural concerns regarding how the rollover process is administered, that the process does not provide legislators adequate opportunity to review all requests and consider the County Administrator Legislature Reinstates State Theatre Grant, Among Several Tourism Program Actions
By unanimous vote of those present, the Legislature authorized payment from county Room Tax Occupancy Funds of a $50,000 Tourism Capital Grant to Historic Ithaca supporting renovations to Ithaca