At last months Town board meeting, the board members voted unanimously to lease King's Park and put the senior center in there. They would borrow Community Block Grant funds for this move. The first year it would cost around $250,000 for the lease and $251,069. to move and improve King's Park - a building the Town doesn't own (Total over a half a million). The Town would still own and maintain Pinegrove. The lease/move/improvements would cost over 1 million dollars (from grants, which costs taxpayers from NY State as a whole instead of just Irondequoit taxpayers) in 3 years still not owning the building at King's Park. This supposedly is a temporary move with a 5 year lease. Way back when King's Park was cropping up in discussions Supervisor Heyman and board members always promised a referendum (vote) on this subject from the residents. There wasn't one.
Political activists in the town have taken matters into their own hands and are gathering 1,000 signatures in 30 days from when the resolution passed to petition a vote. A permissive referendum.
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Town Website
Click "news and events", then click "major development projects", then click "King's Park senior center" and then at the bottom of that page is the link to the handout pages that are posted.
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