Figures provided this week by the administrator of Orange County’s nursing home show that a wave of retirements and the elimination of unfilled positions will cut the facility’s annual cost by $3.8 million, stirring debate at the outset of the fourth budget battle in four years over the Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation.County Executive Steve Neuhaus has proposed cutting off funding for Valley View by May 1 and using $15 million in proceeds from the [...]