6-7-11: Courtesy of YNN. Erie County Executive Chris Collins has submitted a new four-year financial plan to the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, the control board responsible that oversees the County’s finances. The plan would cut 300 jobs in 2012. Collins says about 190 of those jobs are currently vacant. This year, Collins laid off more than 400 county workers as part of budget cuts. Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz is running against Collins for County Executive in the upcoming November election. He says he’d be shocked if the Control Board approves Collins plan. “He’s got the highest paid salaries that any county executive has ever had. He’s not going after those folks, and he’s going after those who provide the services to the people of Erie County, which is just wrong,” said Poloncarz (D). Under Collins’ proposal, cuts made to cultural organizations and the library system in the 2011 budget will be continued in 2012. No additional money is earmarked for those organizations through 2014. Additionally, the one-time $3 million grant the library received in 2011 will not be repeated in 2012. ‘In his world, we shouldn’t have libraries,” said Poloncarz. “They should all be private institutions where we have to pay money to get in, and pay money to get books and DVDs and other things out.”
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