$1 Million Trimmed from Capital Expenses, Robalino Pushes to Restore Surplus to Budget in Local News This Week
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The capital expenses for all departments, originally totaling $1.9 million, were reviewed and trimmed to $925,450 with many expenses being reduced in scope or completely eliminated. The vote carried, with Councilman Austin Ashley casting the only dissenting vote. Ashley said that although he agreed that many of the items included in the capital budget are needed, he felt that many of the purchases could wait. At Monday's meeting of the mayor and council, Robalino made a motion to restore $143,000 to the budget, bringing the surplus back up to $314,000. Citing concern that an insufficient surplus would leave the town vulnerable if there was another Hurricane Irene, and in an effort to keep New Milford's bond rating from any further …
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7:41 am on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Ken, how hard is your employer looking for qualified US citizens? Are they posting jobs with laundry lists of 30 different skill sets that are completely unrelated to each other for the sole purpose of ruling out any one US employee? Companies routinely do this. For example, there isn't a person in the world who is a graphic designer, a network administrator, a COBOL programmer and a C#.Net … more ›