The Legal Notices in the Irondequoit Post have an announcement about a change in date for the Town Board workshop meeting.
Instead of Thursday the 15th - it will be on Wednesday the 14th at 4pm. Broderick Room, Town Hall.
I think this would be a good workshop to attend, as it is the one before the PB Public Hearing about Legacy on the 19th. I know everyone is busy with the holidays, and it is at an inconvenient time for people who have jobs and all.....but it would be good for people to attend. Since they refuse to tape the workshop meetings, it is important for residents to attend in person to know what is going on.
“to assist the Irondequoit Public Library in forcefullypursuing a solution to your space and building needs.”
The MCLS wants to FORCE taxpayers into paying for a new library. If that isn't bullying, I don't know what is.
The MCLS claims that the Irondequoit Libraries have “failed to meet standards set for public libraries by New York State.”
What are those standards? If anyone on the MCLS board could point me in the direction of what exactly the NYS standards are.....it would be much appreciated.
To view the unofficial results on the Monroe County Board Of Elections website, go to this link and select your jurisdiction, the area, and the contest and view the results.
Day after the big win, and you're trolling on the professional naysayer blog? Tsk tsk tsk - get back to work, missy! Computers and systems that are paid for by taxpayers should not be used for trolling the internet for silly blogs.
Please publicly repudiate my previous blog....hell, repudiate them all if ya want.
Do this before Aldersley files a complaint against you for my negative, professional naysayer blog, and then you have to publicly state that you think I'm a buffoon....wait...can you call me a "crotchety old haus frau"? I like that better....anyways....please denounce this blog and you could say that I'm "rogue" and that I do exactly what I want to do...that would be nice.
Please, PLEASE do this so we don't have to suffer through another last ditch effort of Aldersley and Perticone to use the FEPC for playing politics.
I know you have NOTHING at all to do with this blog, but since you don't have anything to do with the ads that Barone put in the papers, or the C.F.B.G. and have to denounce the ads in public - I suppose you'd have to cover your derriere for my blog too.
It seems that CERTAIN people of the Democrat persuasion, have a love/hate relationship going on within their own heads over the FEPC.
It has to do with playing politics, what they think is good for the town, and the Fair Election Practices Committee.
Playing politics - Aldersley and Perticone (and MJD) complain that there is too much partisanship and political bickering in town, and it's not good for the town. But then, Aldersley (who didn't even sign the fair election practices committee's pledge to adhere to such high standards) filed a complaint against Moore and Nottell.......for the report card ads that Barone puts in the I-Post every year.
He brings up the MCLS comments from their meeting - that they denied the matching grant for paving the parking lot because Irondequoit's libraries are inadequate, and since they aren't doing anything to improve the inadequacies - they should not get the funding for the matching grant to fix the library's parking lots.
Here are some items that were in the Irondequoit Post pertaining to the upcoming elections. The letters section had a very good letter from Ginny Maier.
Here's the text of Ginny's excellent letter:
Were developer’s interests put before town’s
I was a resident of Irondequoit when the latest Medley Center agreement was signed. Stephanie Aldersley and John Perticone were on the Town Board at that
time. They signed off on a change to the town zoning law written just for this developer, which gave him the right to make changes to the project without
any further public review, a privilege that no other property owner has. They agreed to a property tax break that Aldersley herself (at a Town Board meeting on
March 2009) estimated as worth $40 million. When the 84-page text of the PILOT was released to the public, we were given less than three business
days to review the agreement before the Town Board voted on it.
Stephanie Aldersley and John Perticone refused repeated requests from residents for more time to understand the size, the length and the details of the tax benefit provided before their vote.
John Perticone never responded to repeated emails from residents expressing concerns about the agreement. But at a Town Board meeting in February 2009, he
made a point of thanking the developer, saying “it’s been a nice process.”
Stephanie Aldersley and John Perticone have remained on the Town Board while the developer of Medley has repeatedly ignored or missed deadlines that were built
into the agreement to, supposedly, protect the town and its taxpayers. They have done nothing to require that the developer be held accountable to the agreement they signed.
Stephanie Aldersley and John Perticone have repeatedly failed to act in the best interest of the people they represent in the most consequential matter to come before
the Town Board in their terms of office.
Do you think they should continue to represent you?
According to the agenda on the Town's website, the last item on the agenda says:
Supervisor
10A2011-15 Adopt a Resolution Authorizing Town Supervisor to Take Any and All Actions to Initiate Legal Action Against Bersin Properties, LLC to Enforce the Rights of the Town Under the Payment in Lieu of Tax Agreement re: Medley Centre
Interesting. I always love the last meeting before elections. So productive.
I haven't had a chance to review it thoroughly yet, but there is a slight increase in the tax rate, up $.13 from last year. It was $6.51 per $1,000. assessed valuation last year. It is tentatively $6.64 per $1,000. assessed valuation for 2012. That could change - up or down - by the time it's all said and done.
If "playing politics with our children is not acceptable"......why is it acceptable for MJD, Aldersley, and Perticone to do exactly that with this political mailer?
It seems that MJD, Aldersley, & Perticone want everyone else to be more positive and respectful of others - but exempt themselves from the "fair campaign" pledge that Perticone and Mary Joyce D'Aurizio signed recently with the League of Women Voters.
Here is the pledge they signed:
I believe this mailer violates the Fair Campaign Pledge that they signed. It's not about issues related to Town Supervisor - it's a School District issue.
Ament is out to ATTACK KIDS? Will he really do anything to grab headlines? Did he LIE about "our children"? Is he really PLAYING POLITICS WITH OUR CHILDREN?!?! FEAR HIM IRONDEQUOIT!!!!! FEAR HIIIMMMMMMM!
It's about people, not politics! Obviously!
Wow, what a joke of a mailer. Hope he contacts the League of Women Voters to advise them of this mailer. How positively political and negative this mailer is. I would expect this from the Dems......and now MJD is a part of that. How simply sad and bad that is.
UPDATE 12:30 am 9/13/11:
Channel 10 had a report on the above mailer, and they interviewed Ament and D'Aurizio - they also reported that the League of Women Voters ruled on the mailer and found it did not rise to the level of a substantial violation - however, while the wording was not a personal attack on Ament's character, they used a poor choice of words.
Moore and Nottel have a simple card that states the facts of who the Republicans are and who the Democrats are. Nothing mean, negative, or nasty.....very nice.
Here are some mailers from MJD, Aldersley, & Perticone - they even recycled the old "It's not magic - bunny in a magic hat" theme from 2009:Mailers MJD, Aldersley Perticone
DEMOCRATS WHO CARRIED PETITIONS:
Somebody sent me an "unofficial" list of the Democrats who carried petitions for MJD, Aldersley, & Perticone. They were from notes that were in pencil when they looked at the petitions, so some of the names may be spelled wrong.
Here is the list:
John Polit
Seth Tebman (Allwood)
Dave Murphy (Kennedy)
James Rosse (Lakeshore, Eaton Rd)
Erin Burdick (Falstaff)
Vince Esprosels ( Bayview)
Adam Bello
F Nasso (Vayo, Eastview)
Chris Jensen Cedargrove
Sue Rodgers (Huntington Hills)
Mary Ellen Jones
Ed O'Brien Winona
John Perticone
Sally Steinwach
James Romeo
Aldersley
Stefan Flemming
Dave Seely
Colorabuoro
Seymour Crum
From January 2007 - January 2010. I thought it would be good to put this audit from last year up. Especially since the meeting last night - and because I noticed someone searched "comptroller sea breeze water district". I didn't see the Special Town Board Meeting last night - but I heard that the S.B.W.D. can't make payroll, and things don't look too good.
