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Essex County starts budget process for 2012.
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October 22, 2011
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Johnsburg town budget barely under 2 percent tax cap By John Grybos
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jgrybos@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — Bumping into the New York state-mandated 2 percent tax cap, but not br eaking it, Johnsburg Town Supervisor Sterling Goodspeed’s budget will mark a 1.98 percent increase to the tax levy over last year's.
The 2012 budget moved from tentative status to a public, pre liminary document at the Oct. 18 town meeting. The budget will cut funding to the town library, the Hudson Headwaters Healthcare Network and the Depot Association, which Goodspeed helped found. Increases will be made to emergency medical services and the town's highway department.
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Town boar d member Ron Vanselow commended Goodspeed on his work with the budget and keeping incr eases under the 2 percent cap, but said the town needed the option to break the cap. A hearing on exceeding the tax cap will pr ecede the town's next meeting, moved from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3 to also accommodate for the budget hearing. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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The cuts ar e har d, said Goodspeed, but before the town increases taxes or borr ows money for pr ograms or pr ojects it should make those difficult cuts. “Your first dir ective should be to send me back to make people mor e unhappy,” Goodspeed said. “This town is financially healthy , this budget is essentially sound, some organizations are hurt, but in times like this, it has to be that way.”
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NORTH CREEK — A multi-million dollar fraud netted David Mor o 10-and-ahalf years in prison Oct. 5. David Mor o, a founding member of the Residents Committee to Pr otect the Adirondacks, now part of Protect the Adirondacks!, was or dered to pay r estitution to defrauded lenders totaling $3,589,350.20 and to serve five years of supervised r elease following his prison term. Moro stayed with family in North Creek while awaiting sentencing following his Nov. 2010 conviction on 33 counts, including; one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wir e fraud, six counts of mail fraud, five counts of wir e fraud, thr ee counts of bank fraud, 17 counts of money laundering and one count of making false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the FBI and IRS. From 2003 to 2005, Mor o secured financing to lease broadcast equipment for Inchon, LLC, which was r unning the Russian Radio Network. The equipment — highend digital audio servers — was nonexistent, and old equipment was sticker ed with new serial numbers to pass scr utiny when lenders sent investigators to keep an eye on their investment. Moro claimed the servers
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