HARRISBURG — County leaders in Pennsylvania are imploring state lawmakers and the governor to ‘do their job’ and pass a state budget. Voicing extreme and costly frustration over the state’s repeated failure to pass budgets on time, the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania says the state forces counties to raise property taxes and cut services.
C-CAP says the mess in Harrisburg means counties have to take out short-term loans and not reimbursed for interest or fees. Officials warn that with the legislature is on summer vacation while counties, senior citizens and children at risk
