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Debate over budget continues By Thom Randall STA FF W RITER

QUEENSBURY | Warren County’s 2019 preliminary budget has seen more scrutiny this year than in decades, and a debate over county salary raises may be delaying adoption of a final spending plan for a few weeks. Discussion about spending cuts, use of the county’s $19.6 million fund balance as well as proposed raises for several county employees in supervisory positions continued at the county Board of Supervisors meeting on Nov. 16. The spending plan as submitted by county Budget Officer Frank Thomas calls for $156.9 million in appropriations, resulting in a tax levy increase of about 2.5 percent,

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well under the state’s tax cap mandate. A primary cause of the increase is a $700,000 hike in the corrections budget in addition to a 2.6 percent raise for nearly all county employees. The budget was sent back for 11th-hour review at a Nov. 8 meeting of the board of supervisor’s budget committee after supervisors raised questions about proposed raises for several county employees that were substantially higher than 2.6 percent. Several supervisors called for reducing a pending 19 percent pay raise to the county deputy insurance administrator down to the 2.6 percent other

employees are to receive and cutting the proposed raise for the county planner post from $5,600 to 2.6 percent. They also proposed deleting several new county positions that were proposed in the budget, as well as reducing a $400,000 allocation to the Lake George Convention & Visitors Bureau, which represents a 33 percent increase from 2018. » Budget Cont. on pg. 3

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LAKE GEORGE | Robert F. Flacke, one of the region’s most prominent citizens over the past half-century, died Nov. 10 at his home in Lake George. » Flacke Cont. on pg. 2

Residents dismayed over broadband, phone interruptions By Pete DeMola

But even with service again operational, residents have long complained about the provider. “It’s been widespread throughout the town,” Johnsburg Supervisor Andrea Hogan told The Sun. “People can’t run businesses with that.” Greg and Ellen Schaefer were without phone or internet for 10 days before service was restored last Monday. Ellen retired to North River from SUNY Albany and planned to work remotely.

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But the unreliable phone and internet service means she must often commute, anyways. On a good day, Schaefer said she can access a download speed of 3 megabytes per second, and an upload speed of 0.5 mbps. “And this is supposed to be high speed internet,” she said. Schafer, who serves as President Board of North Creek Depot Railway Museum, must resort to going to the library to work. Sometimes she and her husband even hop in their car, which has an AT&T hotspot, and cruise until they can pick up a signal at the tower near the base of Gore Mountain. Schaefer pays $228 per month for dish, phone and internet service. » Broadband Cont. on pg. 2

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