[LNP | LancasterOnline] Lancaster County GOP commissioners muzzle budget director at public meeting

Lancaster County Commissioners Ray D'Agostino (left) and Josh Parsons

Lancaster County's two Republican commissioners blocked the county's budget director from answering questions about the 2025 budget during and after a public meeting Thursday, the day after commissioners approved the budget in a split 2-1 vote.

The incident took place at a Lancaster County Investment Board meeting Thursday. Democratic Commissioner Alice Yoder and Republican county Treasurer Amber Martin later described the behavior of Commissioners Josh Parsons and Ray D'Agostino as "despicable."

The tense back-and-forth at Thursday's meeting was a stark example of the extent the two Republican commissioners have gone to restrict county employees from answering questions about county business in a public forum.

At the meeting, former county Commissioner John Trescot, a Democrat, asked Budget Director Paul Landers and the investment board several times whether and how the county's capital improvement fund factored into the 2025 budget.

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