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News Regional & State News Piccola blasts Harrisburg City Council over inaction on debt crisis
Thursday, 01 September 2011 16:07

Piccola blasts Harrisburg City Council over inaction on debt crisis

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) -- One midstate lawmaker says Harrisburg City Council’s rejection of a fiscal recovery plan will mean the city can’t make its upcoming bond payments. So, the message from the state government to the Capital City is, "Don’t expect a bailout." Senator Jeffrey Piccola of Dauphin County says when council members voted four to three against the mayor’s plan to bring the city out of debt with the help of state advisors, they put the bond rating of the commonwealth and its municipalities in jeopardy. "So, citizens in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia or Hazleton or over here in Cumberland County, that have municipal and county governments that are fiscally sound and doing the prudent thing financially, are going to find themselves paying higher interest rates," he says. Piccola has proposed legislation that would put Harrisburg on the road to financial rehabilitation, but the Legislature can’t take the measure up, since it doesn’t return to session until late September. Until then, Piccola says he’s not arguing that the state advance Harrisburg any money. Governor Corbett says he’s waiting for City Council to make a move.

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