Supervisor's screwed by Bischoff!!!

Ulster County Legislator Gary Bischoff's incompetence screws up town budget's all over Ulster County. A resolution that was pushed by Gary Bischoff authorizes the county to charge back the towns and the City of Kingston for expenses incurred by the Board of Elections. This has resulted in $1.25 million of County costs being shifted to municipalities. The amount is double what Bischoff had told Supervisor's to expect and worse yet, he released the numbers to towns after some had already announced their tentative budgets.

Mr. Bischoff is well known for standing up and criticizing State and Federal representatives for pushing unfunded mandates. In a desperate measure Bischoff would rather let the towns get heat for their budgets than do what Dutchess County did and incur the costs of elections.

Looking at Legislator Bischoff's responsibility as Chairman of the Laws and Rules Committee it says he is only responsible for one county department, Board of Elections. How in the world can a legislator with such little responsibility screw this up so bad? Gary has a reputation of being underhanded and this clearly confirms our suspicion.