Rockland Lawmakers Override All 22 Line-Item Budget Vetoes

The Rockland County Legislature voted Tuesday night to override all 22 of County Executive Ed Day’s line-item vetoes.

Legislators voted 13-3 to override the vetoes of 13 full-time-equivalent security positions.

Legislators also voted 12-4 to override the vetoes of six county Finance Department positions.

With the overrides, the Legislature’s amended version of the 2016 County Budget, a compromise spending plan cut in a bipartisan deal between some Legislators and Day, takes effect Jan. 1.

The property tax increase for 2016 is about 9.86 percent, amounting to about $8 per month. Day’s vetoes would have put the increase at about 8.61 percent.

“This has been a long and detailed process as we sought to ensure adequate funding for county operations in 2016,” Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe said in a press release.