By a vote of 20-9, the Monroe County Legislature Thursday night overrode County Executive Adam Bello’s veto of legislation hiring six new supervisors for the Monroe County Board of Elections.
Bello had vetoed the measure to hire six Republican and six Democratic supervisors, which critics called patronage. Bello noted the county had hired temporary election workers to address the labor shortage in the elections board using federal funds, without burdening local taxpayers further.
The opponents, all Democrats, said the measure would cost taxpayers an extra half-million dollars and the jobs didn’t even come with job descriptions.
The clerk of the legislature spent several hours at the virtual meeting reading emails from voters, most of them against overriding the veto.