(Aren't you glad I don't infiltrate your mailboxes? I just invite you here, if you want to read....g'head. If not.....no biggie.)
Not only is Pinegrove unsafe, it has now reduced square footage to the size of a phone booth! *cough cough lies cough cough* Notice the "Pinegrove" on the booth. Isn't that cute?
This mailer states in the top left corner that it was paid for by the:
Irondequoit Seniors First Committee
3098 St. Paul Blvd.
Rochester, N.Y. 14617
Guess who's address that is?
Guess what Irena Scoglio does?
David Seeley, who used to be paid by Irondequoit taxpayers when he worked for the Supervisor is the Leader, and Irena Scoglio is the Chair, of the Irondequoit Democratic Committee. Did Irena pay for this out of her own pocket, or was the IDC involved in having these mailers printed up?
Wait a sec.....Irena is also the Vice President of the Library Board.
Hey, that reminds me of something.....
I love the title of this side:
FEBRUARY 24th - A NEW SENIOR CENTER BECOMES A REALITY...IF YOU SAY SO!
Folks, do you know WHY you can "SAY SO"?
Is it because of the IDC that you have a say?
No.
Is it because of the Supervisor, or the Town Board that you have a say?
No.
Is it because of people who went door to door, during the frigid cold weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, to collect signatures to petition a referendum on this SO YOU COULD HAVE A SAY!
Why YES! That is exactly why you can "SAY SO" on February 24th! The Supervisor and Town Board weren't going to do that for you.
The Town Board voted unanimously in November at one of their board meetings to move the Senior Center to King's Park using borrowed CDBG funds from other necessary grants. They were not going to give you an "If You Say So". They just did a "We Say So".
If not for those people going out to collect 1,952 signatures to force a vote on this, you would not have a say in this at all. Thanks go out to those people. Seriously.
"It's no secret that Pinegrove has been falling apart for years."
No kidding? The residents have only asked you a gazillion times to fix it. Instead, you refuse to, cutting the CDBG funding from your budget for Pinegrove repairs. Also, if it has been falling apart for years, why didn't you fix it? Where was Joe Morelle with his generous "gift" of taxpayer money from grants way back when?
"Right now, as you're reading this, certain rooms there are freezing cold because the heating system is broken."
Yes, and somewhere, at 3 am, a phone is ringing..........
Good grief!
The heating system is broken? Fix it!
Certain rooms? Are they the rooms that the seniors use? Or is it where the Parks Dept. offices were? Or where the kids go for crafts, and fun? Where the adults go for hot beverages after a moonlight snowshoe? Is it the room where the Macular Degeneration people meet? Where the Red Cross gives babysitting classes? Where the Irondequoit Art Club meets? Where the Winter Fun day is going to be? Which "certain rooms" are you talking about?
"Even if we fix up Pinegrove - it's too small and too old for Irondequoit's Senior population - the largest in Monroe County!"
Well, you could use CDBG funds to add a second floor like Greece has, WITH a fancy elevator too! Double that footprint! How many seniors utilize the center? Do many of them go to Florida for the long winter? Where is the data on demographics? Senior population hubs?
"Relocating the senior center to a centralized location..........space twice as big as Pinegrove........more accessible.....heat works......no new taxes!"
Pinegrove is exactly THREE MILES from that asphalt jungle King's Park. Pinegrove is about as "central" as King's Park is "central" in Irondequoit..
If you add on to the Pinegrove building, you could get twice as much space as you have now, covered under CDBG grants, and you'd OWN the building, and not be paying rent to out of state landlords.
Pinegrove is just as accessible as King's Park is.
The heat and A/C could work at Pinegrove, but the Town cut the funding to Pinegrove to fix it, which would have been covered under CDBG.
No new taxes? Grants are taxes. If you sell the building back to WISD, they will raise the school budget to repair the building, and the school taxes will go up.
"February 24th - Seniors Come First!"
Again, where have you people been? The past 3 years (and more) everyone and their mother were telling you to fix up Pinegrove. Instead you cut the funding for Pinegrove for repairs covered under CDBG.
You've cut $100,000 from the library budget too. Are you ever going to get around to fixing them up? Or will you sit on that issue until it's "too late" and you vote unanimously to move the libraries to King's Park as well?
Honestly. You people are so transparent that you make Scotch Tape jealous.
