{"id":50863,"date":"2023-03-22T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=50863"},"modified":"2023-03-22T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:38:07","slug":"county-executive-wendel-to-deliver-state-of-the-county-address-at-legislature-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/county-executive-wendel-to-deliver-state-of-the-county-address-at-legislature-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"County Executive Wendel to Deliver State of the County Address at Legislature Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel<\/strong> will deliver his State of the County<\/strong> address before the County Legislature<\/strong> tonight.<\/p>\n

Wendel will highlight successes of 2022 while sharing goals for 2023 in a presentation during the regular meeting of the County Legislature, which starts at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Legislature’s monthly meeting also will include voting on a request to New York State to renew the county’s occupancy tax<\/strong>. The resolution also requests increasing that tax from 5% to 8%.<\/p>\n

Both the County Legislature and the New York State Legislature must give approval in order for an increase to go into effect.<\/p>\n

According to a report by the Jamestown Post-Journal, County Executive Wendel wants the additional 3% increase to go toward funding efforts around the county’s lakes and tributary streams. Currently, of the 5% collected, 60% is used to promote tourism with 40% going toward enhancing waterways<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Legislature also will vote on whether to establish a County Salary Commission<\/strong>. If approved, a commission of seven citizens would be convened to recommend salary adjustments for county elected officials.<\/p>\n

The Legislature’s meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Legislative Chambers of the Gerace Office Building in Mayville. It is open to the public and will be live streamed on the Chautauqua County Government YouTube page at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ChautauquaCounty\/streams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel will deliver his State of the County address before the County Legislature tonight. Wendel will highlight successes of 2022 while sharing goals for 2023 in a presentation during the regular meeting of the County Legislature, which starts at 6:30 p.m. The Legislature’s monthly meeting also will include voting on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[431,13080,1729,1730,1802,2094],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/chautauuqa-county-feature.png?fit=332%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-den","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50864,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50863\/revisions\/50864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}