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The Dunkirk Common Council chose to override Mayor Wilfred Rosas’ vetoes last week in regards to four lines in the 2021 proposed budget.
First Ward Councilman Don Williams Jr. weighed in with his feelings on why the override is OK in the Council’s opinion. “We’re still in litigation and we need to pay something off for our attorney that represents the council on that so we need that money there to pay that,” Williams said. “For the decrease in the law department, again, we said it several times, there’s only one resolution and that was resolution number 60 of 2017 that set the rate of pay for the city attorney at $45,000. We’ve been budgeting for $70,000 in that all along and we feel that the budget should be set at what the actual salary is and that’s $45,000 set by council.”