Visit the town website and link here.
A lot of numbers being thrown around, and I assume they are all correct.....just because I give them the benefit of the doubt that they did their research.
Well, I was wrong to assume.
This is just a number that jumped out at me right off the bat:
"Pinegrove currently serving approximately 64,000 seniors in 2008"
Really?
"that is over 10,000 more seniors being served since 2006"
Are you SURE about that?
I know the population of the whole town is around 50,000. So, I look up the census data, and population trend data and here's what I found at the U.S. Census Bureau.
Population in 2000:
Population trend:
So, the population of Irondequoit in 2000 was 52,354.....and the population trend for Irondequoit for 2007 was down to 50,021.
But the Town is telling us that Pinegrove is currently serving 64,000 seniors in 2008. 10,000 more seniors since 2006.
How can they serve 64,000 seniors when the population of Irondequoit is only around 51,000 people? How is that possible?
Here is the 2005-2007 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates for Irondequoit with an age breakdown......and according to the estimates, there are about 10,235 seniors aged 65 or older. Add about 3,000 more to that number if you want to count ages 60-64. So, give or take, around 13,000 seniors in Irondequoit.
U.S. Census Bureau Age Breakdown For Irondequoit:
Here's another link to social/economic/housing etc. breakdowns for Irondequoit.
64,000 seniors served at Pinegrove in 2008?
If they got this number wrong......what other numbers are incorrect in this "facts sheet"?
"Since 2006, the demand for services at Pinegrove has increased substantially."
How much?
Where are the studies?
The documents supporting this statement?
If they can't even get the number of seniors being serviced at Pinegrove correct, how can we be sure anything else is correct?
What I really want to know is......who the heck wrote this part? Who did the research? Who hit "publish" before checking the numbers and putting this crap on the website?!?
Don't you KNOW what your town population is? How many seniors you service? That the amount of seniors serviced can't possibly be MORE THAN THE WHOLE POPULATION OF IRONDEQUOIT?!?!?!!
I mean C'MON! That was just ignorant! Geez!
