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BUFFALO, N.Y. Prior to a vote on a roughly $124 million spending plan Thursday, the Erie County Minority Conference introduced an amendment to put it off for 30 days while opening a public comment period. It doesn t kill any other proposal that s been put forth,” Erie County Republican Legislator Chris Greene said. “It just provides the taxpayers who fund this an opportunity to have their voice heard.”
The conference said the Democratic county executive and legislature majority did not include them in decisions about distributing the funds that include $90 million from the American Recovery Plan. The four of us here represent 350,000 Erie County residents, Minority Leader Joe Lorigo said. That is a huge chunk of people and for the county executive and the majority caucus to say that they don t need us, that our constituents don t count as much as theirs, is insulting and short-sighted.