Erie County Executive Poloncarz and other county officials are probing the vast details of Governor Cuomo's budget proposal for anything affecting this part of the state.County executives watch budgets carefully, to see what's there and what isn't and figure out what legislators will do to change the proposal.
The spending plan does have the state's share of rebuilding the football stadium in Orchard Park as well as the second allotment of $100 million toward the "Buffalo billion."
This year, the county executive says there aren't any great changes in mandates. Poloncarz says the county is now feeling the effect of Albany starting to take over rising costs of Medicaid.
"It's not the Medicaid attack like you've seen in the past. Recently of course there was the cap of the Medicaid cap where all further growth will be capped so counties can pretty much guarantee what their amount is going to be for Medicaid in future years, which will certainly help. We saw a little bit of savings this year but the real savings start in 2014 & 2015," said Poloncarz.
Poloncarz says he's watching small agencies inside his government dealing with Albany changes in money flowing locally.
