Pennsylvania's budget was due July 1, but the impasse continues. It's mainly over school and mass transit funding. Our hard-working state senate, after spending most of the summer at the beach or country club pools, finally convened yesterday to propose a "stopgap" plan that Governor Josh Shapiro and Democrats had warned was a no-go. And now the legislature is off again until September.
This abdication of their responsibility jeopardizes $2 billion in education funding and $542 million in health and human services funding for county offices.
At the August 7 meeting of NorCo Council, Council member Jeff Warren - he's running for Joe Emrick's seat in the state house - asked Executive Lamont McClure whether this impasse has negatively affected the county.
McClure responded, "As of today, No." But he went on to add that the county will have to start making plans in September if the well runs dry.
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