Just do the math. I hope the new mayor demands written competitive proposals for goods and services provided from outside sources to the village, requires justification in advance from his department heads on weekly basis for any overtime, insists on a description and justification for any unclassified expense and then requires them to be classified, and reviews all job descriptions against requirements for village employees.
That should save at least nearly a cool million and how do you think that will affect your tax bill? Editorial Disclaimer. The layout and illustrations are the work of the Smalbany editorial staff. Any resident wishing to comment or rebut any Smalbany article, or submit his or her opinion for publication may do so on any relevant topic.
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The apron illustration and other similar products can be found on the Zazzle novelties site. Schneiderman , F. Bruno , Joseph C. Teresi , Josephine P. Boehm , Thomas E. Another victory for us! Even as the Johnson Newspaper Group and the Ravena News Herald are desperately trying to continue the propaganda, to gloss over the sea changes that need to take place in Ravena-Coeymans, and paint happy faces on evil bloodsuckers, the whole world is reading this blog and taking an interest.
Bill Schumm, a. Schumm, who claims 32 years of active firefighting service and who has responded to more than 30, emergency incidents, has been involved with the fire and rescue service in one form or another for 50 years. If any of our readers in the Empire State have anything to add or clarify on this, please email me and let me know.
Once the word gets out the firefighter and first-responder community through their own media, the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs is going to have to answer some pretty sticky questions to its members and their personnel.
So far, just silence, as usual and apparently the hope that the attention will fade. The choice is now in the hands of Ravena and Coeymans elected officials, your village and town governments.
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Change is in the air: The End Times for the Coeymanazis is drawing near! Johnson , John Luckacovic , John T. Apple Sr. Today, I drove around and took some pictures to share with our readers. Truth Flanked by Lies! This sign is on Rt , just before the port entrance.
The bare-faced lie in this grouping of signs is the fact that now Latter and his friends are trying to take the credit for the budget and posing Vote YES signs along with their campaign signs, making the false impression that they supported the budget.
They did not! In fact Mr James Latter speaks out very aggressively during the April 23, budget meeting by saying:. Perhaps Mr Latter can explain his turnaround on this issue.
Vadney , Robbins , Sylvester , Krzykowski , and Lukens stopped them in their tracks! That bunch of phoneys were handing the community a pack of lies, telling people programs and services would be cut when in reality they knew they were being kept in the budget!
We recommend you vote YES! McCartney who made it all come together and work! Lest you all forget, it was the teachers clique and ex-teacher Elizabeth Smith she jumped ship on short notice who stuck it to the community with a 6. These signs tell it like it really is: Latter-Hyslop-Brown are trying to deceive the voting public into thinking that they are a set, that you need to vote for all three. If that happens, the teachers will have a majority!
Kiss your property and home value good-bye! They are indeed one item when it comes to voting on the issues. Anything that benefits the teachers or their union will be a done deal. Latter, Hyslop and Brown were there but none of the other candidates. Mary Partidge-Brown sent the emails only to select families. Be afraid, be very afraid! Best Description of James Latter.
He should have been canned long ago but he has the balls to run again. The man has no dignity! Jason Hyslop. We are not saying that Sabic is a terrorist cell nor are we saying the because Latter and Hyslop work for the Saudis, that they are involved with anything ugly. But we always look at who you hang out with. He does some volunteering at one of the schools. Not a bad guy. We have some concerns about his intelligence level, too. But NO! Patrick Brown. You can read what we have to say about him at Peter E.
Brown, Candidate? The Ugly Truth Is…. Thanks to shysters like Patrick Brown. Do you really think this shyster is going to give a shyster shite about what you think? Do you really think this shyster shite has any idea of who you are or what your problems are? Hell NO! A leader, working man, dedicated parent, and full of community spirit. You experience them at every board of education meeting.
We need John Vadney and people like him. None of it is true and not a word of it would indicate that Engel , Latter , Whalen or Reville , the teachers clique had reviewed anything about the budget.
Almost to the word rebutting the teachers clique , rebuking them for their misinformation , and putting the parents and public at ease with the truth.
Bravo John Vadney! John Vadney represents the value of preparation and preparedness, honesty and integrity , respect and dignity , but most of all he represents competent leadership on the RCS CSD Board of Education. We have Judy Sylvester , an honest resident member of the board. He has very good contacts in government, too. But most importantly, Laszlo is a very caring, intelligent, sensitive, and fair man.
Laszlo, in one word is: good. Laszlo Polyak is an outspoken defender of security in our schools and quality education for the students, he is courageous, focused, and he knows this community better than anyone we can name.
Replace the jackasses with someone effective, Laslo Polyak. Look around you. They listen to parents, residents and taxpayers, and to their consciences, not to special interests and teachers union reps. The Voice of Reason The Editor. She was slurping s.
Spotting Time : Saturday, April 20 at a. You can fight and win ONLY if you have good information about the lies of the enemy!
Cathy Deluca , of course, has to get her two cents into the discussion and in a public statement writes:. Understandable, it can be quite confusing. Can you two Delucas get it straight for just once in your lives? Neither has training in accounting, finance, or law. Neither of the Delucas has been licensed or certified by any agency to qualify them to give such advice or information.
By profit, I mean receive personal and professional enrichment ; I mean they personally profit from more programs and fewer cuts! As a teacher and wife of a teacher, she stands to profit. Elizabeth A. The second speaker: A lovely little 5th grader, Maddie McTigue , was apparently put up on exhibit to sell middle school programs and to put in a good word for a favorite teacher and her program. Shame on you! Parents and teachers! But he had the gall to act like a Joe Average taxpayer and flaunted his own tax returns When was he last audited, I wonder?
Maybe his stupidity and insincerity? Pretty words hiding an ugly message. We think this means that the teachers union, NYSUT , wants no cap and wants to go hog-wild on the property owner with taxation.
Now is that fair? According to our analysis Yes. You can read more about the process of how the levy is determined here:. But despite all that, some of the content is helpful. Since the state government allocates a portion of property taxes received each year to the various public school districts and the government also provides tax relief to property taxpayers in the form of a credit STAR , the relief is in the form of the school levies credit.
Tax rules govern the annual levy and relief. Every property ow ner must pay the school levy property tax even if he has no children attending public school in this state. Since the state and local governments have the legal responsibility and mandate of managing public education, it levies taxes for this purpose. Cuomo signed into law the historic property tax cap. The law requires the local governments and school districts to raise taxes no more than 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.
As important is that the tax cap is not a dictate from Albany. Communities may raise or lower property taxes according to the needs of the community. If the taxpayers want to pay more taxes they can, and they can override the cap with a 60 percent vote for schools and by a 60 percent vote of the governing body for local governments.
Tax Rate : The rate at which your local government determines your property will be taxed. Property owners often confuse property taxes and assessments. You can grieve your assessment, but not your taxes. Assessments not taxes — Assessments are determined by local assessors when they determine the value of your property. Do you wonder why? Or would you want to live in a place that gets the pubicity that RCS has been getting from the Times Union? Sure, everyone likes Nazis, especially everyone wants Coeymanazis to run their lives for them!
Sure buy property in the town of Coeymans and regret it for the rest of your life…]. Tax levy — is the term used to describe the amount the school board, town board, etc. If the budget goes up more staff, more services, more programs, more spending the levy is likely to go up.
If staff, services, programs, spending are cut, the levy is likely to decrease to zero or even become negative. Now , the perceived need to reduce government spending rules out a more accommodating fiscal policy. The American economy fell into what was at first a fairly mild recession at the end of But the downturn turned into a worldwide plunge after the failure of Lehman Brothers in September led to the vanishing of credit for nearly all borrowers not deemed super-safe.
Banks in the United States and other countries needed bailouts to survive. The unavailability of credit caused a decline in world trade volumes of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression , and nearly every economy went into recession.
But it turned out that businesses overreacted. While sales to customers fell , they did not decline as much as production did. That fact set the stage for an economic rebound that began in mid , with the National Bureau of Economic Research , the arbiter of such things , determining that the recession ended in June of that year.
Manufacturers around the world reported rapidly rising orders. Until recently , most observers believed the American economy was in a slow recovery , albeit one with very disappointing job growth.
The official figures on gross domestic product showed the United States economy grew to a record size in the final three months of , having erased the loss of 4. Then last week the government announced its annual revision to the numbers for the last several years. New government surveys indicated Americans had spent less than previously estimated in and on a wide range of things , including food , clothing and computers.
Tax returns showed Americans even cut back on gambling. The recession now appears to have been deeper — a top-to-bottom fall of 5. The economy is still smaller than it was in In June , more American manufacturers said new orders fell than rose , according to a survey by the Institute for Supply Management. The margin was small , but the survey had shown rising orders for 24 consecutive months. Obama also said the two nations have agreed that the European debt crisis cannot be allowed to put the global economy at risk.
Obama will host Merkel at a state dinner later Tuesday. Merkel has now visited the US six times since Obama took office. France has suffered a double-dip recession according to revised official figures that showed it had a worse start to the year than previously thought.
It was the second consecutive quarter of contraction — the definition of a recession — after the economy shrank by 1. By the end of March this year the French economy was still 4. The latest revision, reflecting a poorer than expected performance for the construction sector, underscores the challenges faced by France and its European neighbours as they battled a fresh wave of COVID infections this year.
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