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Heated Debates at the Luzerne Co. Commissioners Meeting

Heated Debates at the Luzerne Co. Commissioners Meeting - Friday, December 21, 2007 at 6:28PM EST

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 @06:28pm EST
A loud and boisterous meeting Friday morning at the Luzerne County Commissioners approve their budget and the talk again turns to county debit card spending and debt. Luzerne County’s three-hour commissioner's meeting opened with positive public comment. “For the record, nobody's paid me to be here. You are and have been doing a great job." "The direction were' heading is the correct direction." But not everyone came with kind words, Joe Neperkowski of Wilkes-Barre Township said,"Commissioner Skrepenak stand up and resign, I’d like Sam Guesto to stand up and resign. That smirk on your face doesn't do anything, shut your mouth Jim Blaum you get up and resign for the $300.00 dollars on an alcohol bill." Jab, "I’m asking you to resign again today." After jab, after jab was made mostly about the county's debit card debacle. Wilkes-Barre Resident Tim Grier, "We need to know why the controller didn't know, or why wasn't she doing her job or was someone setting it up so she couldn't do her job." Bob Klein is also a Luzerne County taxpayer too, "I can't understand why so much attention is being placed on that, versus the $4.3 million in legal fees we're paying to a Philadelphia law firm." There was lots of sudden outbursts Commissioner Stephen Urban said, "I don't know where you're getting your facts from, 4.3 million from." Blowouts... Commissioner Skrepenak said, "Order please, order please, order." And bickering... Mayor Thomas Leighton said, "Without their cooperation (Skrepenak, Tucker and a few democrats), they had the vision of restoring downtown Wilkes-Barre.. Your Wilkes-Barre.” Commissioner Stephen Urban responded, "Not once has he said thank you, why because he's politically motivated." On to the meat and potatoes of the meeting... "I look for a motion to approve the budget,” added Commissioner Skrepenak. The majority commissioners passed the county's $146-million plus budget two to one with more deficit spending and borrowing. Skrepenak added, "I want to make sure we don't raise taxes." Commissioner Urban voted no. the county will borrow department funds, request early reimbursements and make deep cuts to row offices.
 


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