I think the folks angry about their taxes are shockedsurprised at how time has marched on.....everything cost more when other folks are hoarding/lying/cheating and then the rest have to pick up the tab
for what they THINK is THEIR fair share.....GET OFF MY BACK YOU CHEAP BAST-RDS........

Did you really think the town would/could survive being cheap and stuck in the 50's??? Everyone sat around while GE marched on.....Everyone sat waiting for 'the free stuff'.....

If you want your property valued at ZERO...that's great.....I cant wait to see who will buy your home when you no longer do or who will buy your cheap neighbors home.......

I dont like taxes any more than the next guy.....but get over it....time has moved on and bread isn't $.10/loaf anymore......these aren't the days of Leave it to Beaver anymore....the Honeymooners have
left the town........

so if you like cheap values then by all means keep those dollar stores in business and then keep complaining about how the economy just isn't there to support your fat but the way you are accustomed to
but in the mean time,,,,,dont ruin it for the rest of us........

Before election if you complained about Suprise to FDG you were told that his days were numbered. I have talked to a few people who still believe he is a goner because that is what they were promised. Anyway I think senders is dmn right. We needed to do the reval. However we need to attract business and industry to lower property assessments. McClanes, Walgreens, Walmart all projects that would of helped ease our tax burdens. If we want to stay a bedroom community then we, the homeowners, are going to have to foot the bill. We need smart growth. Instead we have nothing.

Before election if you complained about Suprise to FDG you were told that his days were numbered. I have talked to a few people who still believe he is a goner because that is what they were promised. Anyway I think senders is dmn right. We needed to do the reval. However we need to attract business and industry to lower property assessments. McClanes, Walgreens, Walmart all projects that would of helped ease our tax burdens. If we want to stay a bedroom community then we, the homeowners, are going to have to foot the bill. We need smart growth. Instead we have nothing.

Quoted from 592

Before election if you complained about Suprise to FDG you were told that his days were numbered. I have talked to a few people who still believe he is a goner because that is what they were promised. Anyway I think senders is dmn right. We needed to do the reval. However we need to attract business and industry to lower property assessments. McClanes, Walgreens, Walmart all projects that would of helped ease our tax burdens. If we want to stay a bedroom community then we, the homeowners, are going to have to foot the bill. We need smart growth. Instead we have nothing.

Bad infrastructure and poor planning equals no tax base. We have good schools, great water and great access to the Thruway and I88 but no planning and infrastructure to take advantage of those resources.

Quoted from 592

Before election if you complained about Suprise to FDG you were told that his days were numbered. I have talked to a few people who still believe he is a goner because that is what they were promised. Anyway I think senders is dmn right. We needed to do the reval. However we need to attract business and industry to lower property assessments. McClanes, Walgreens, Walmart all projects that would of helped ease our tax burdens. If we want to stay a bedroom community then we, the homeowners, are going to have to foot the bill. We need smart growth. Instead we have nothing.

BH - If Mr. Surprise is as bad as advertised and does have a long contract in place.  Then the only probable way for those that have a problem with him to get him gone would be to send in formal complaints that have merit.  Enough performance based complaints can get most people fired.  Same goes for those that feel others should be removed.

You are absolutely right. I just wanted to point out what FDG told voters who voiced a problem with Suprise. Just more what folks wanted to hear before election day. In the case of McClanes they were going to turn over nearly a million dollars of new infrastructure to the town had the project gone through. The proposed Walmart supercenter as well was going to improve and create new infrastructure. Again do we want to remain a bedroom community? Smart growth? We have no growth.

A town needs to bring in buisness to survive.  Just depends on what kind of buisness is acceptable.  Housing? Retail?  And a look at how it effects the mass majority of locals.  

You can never please everyone.  If you try, you will never please anyone.  Politics and buisness are the same in this area.  You have to have a plan and stick with it's core.  The two differ when you have to adapt your plan to deal with the unexpected.  In buisness when you adapt your plan you are considered a smart buisness person.  In politics when you adapt your plan you sold out, lied to the voters, lost your integrity....so on and so forth.  

I can only go by the opinions on this board.  Most seem to want change but don't want things to change.  If that makes sense.  

Rotterdam messed up decades ago, changing zoning based on WHO owned certain property and what they wanted to do with it.  If a home builder had property in a commercially zoned area, it was changed for them so they could make money.  If somebody wanted to build a strip mall near residential, it was changed.  We have a Mall, a Mobil gas station, a sewer treatment plant, and then a new apartment complex.  WHAT!  How about Lent Court Apartment?  It's an apartment complex in the middle of a business area. WHAT!  

A business base isn't the answer to Rotterdam's problems.  That's just a convenient excuse for Bobby Iovanella to continue to chop up Rotterdam for his profits.  Rotterdam tax bills are so high because of the County taxes and School taxes.  The County needs to stop spending money, and Schalmont needs to stop paying $100K+ for a elementary school music teacher.  Bring the torches and pitchforks to the school board and county meetings and demand responsible government.  

We need change, but not by giving free reign to the same developers that created this towns zoning disaster.  

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Fiorillo the one who must stop the nonsense

    The Feb. 7 letter from Lynn Fiorillo, unsuccessful candidate for Rotterdam town clerk, was another example of trying to pull the wool over residents’ eyes.
    Ms. Fiorillo, along with Gerard Parisi, has tried to attack our clerk during and after the election in which Eunice Esposito soundly defeated her. Now Ms. Fiorillo says it’s time to stop the political nonsense with regard to the antics of Mr. Parisi and the Freedom of Information Law. I agree with her on this point, and would ask, when are she and Mr. Parisi going to stop?
    The past administration, of which Ms. Fiorillo was a part, did everything in its power not to answer to the taxpayers, and now Mr. Parisi is accusing those now serving of not giving him information.
    A Jan. 28 letter called for Mr. Parisi to resign, as he was part of an administration that caused the state to criticize the past administration for its unethical practice of not getting competitive bids for town business. I believe Ms. Fiorillo’s letter is nothing more than a ruse to take attention off Mr. Parisi’s past performance as the town’s privately contracted attorney.
    Yes, it is time for Ms. Fiorillo to stop the political nonsense! The campaign is over and she lost! The taxpayers of Rotterdam saw through her vain attempt to unseat Eunice Esposito and we see through her attempt to cover up the behavior of Mr. Parisi as our past town attorney.

    LISA M. DUFEK
    Rotterdam

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r02404&AppName=1

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Esposito a good, honest clerk; attack is political

    The Feb. 6 Daily Gazette brought some astonishing news, to me anyway — an article titled, “Clerk admits breaking notary law.” As I kept on reading, I became more and more amazed at the labyrinth of laws, regulations, bylaws, etc., binding, almost paralyzing the American world. We have indeed reached the point of no return. Individuality, good old Yankee sense are out.
    I have known Mrs. Esposito for decades. She is an amazing human being, an inspiration for me and many others. Smart, hard-working, honest, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak political landscape.
    Mrs. Esposito is being taken to task by a group of robots because she has used her heart and common sense. What a shame!
    I apologize to Mrs. Esposito for the harm being done her good name by buffoons. There must be a hidden agenda somewhere. There always is in the political world.

    ROGER MALEBRANCHE
    Broadalbin

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r02407&AppName=1

The only "robots" in this saga are the parades of Democrat sympathizers programmed to defend Esposito's disregard for the law. If "common sense"
was her guide, then she apparently has none.

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Rotterdam messed up decades ago, changing zoning based on WHO owned certain property and what they wanted to do with it.  If a home builder had property in a commercially zoned area, it was changed for them so they could make money.  If somebody wanted to build a strip mall near residential, it was changed.  We have a Mall, a Mobil gas station, a sewer treatment plant, and then a new apartment complex.  WHAT!  How about Lent Court Apartment?  It's an apartment complex in the middle of a business area. WHAT!  

A business base isn't the answer to Rotterdam's problems.  That's just a convenient excuse for Bobby Iovanella to continue to chop up Rotterdam for his profits.  Rotterdam tax bills are so high because of the County taxes and School taxes.  The County needs to stop spending money, and Schalmont needs to stop paying $100K+ for a elementary school music teacher.  Bring the torches and pitchforks to the school board and county meetings and demand responsible government.  

We need change, but not by giving free reign to the same developers that created this towns zoning disaster.  

I agree that the town should get a handle on it's own finances before making any changes.  But it is going to take some time to fix finances on a largr scale.  It will not happen over night.  It seems to me that the outgoing admin did a good job of tying the town to a lot of not great long term financial commitments.  If it was malitious or not does not matter.  

One being the 120,000 for the ambulance company that looks like it is going to fold.  By the way, who is that companies lawyer?  

Can anyone explain to me how you can equate a seated councilman having to foil for information and a clerk who is notarizing dead people's signature. Also if my recollection serves me the past admistration did not require questions in written form. Just another crat plant!

Quoted from 592

Before election if you complained about Suprise to FDG you were told that his days were numbered. I have talked to a few people who still believe he is a goner because that is what they were promised. Anyway I think senders is dmn right. We needed to do the reval. However we need to attract business and industry to lower property assessments. McClanes, Walgreens, Walmart all projects that would of helped ease our tax burdens. If we want to stay a bedroom community then we, the homeowners, are going to have to foot the bill. We need smart growth. Instead we have nothing.

I noticed you said "need to lower assessments", incase you are not aware, your assessment is not the problem.  (And if you ever plan on selling your home, you certainly don't want low assessments) Many seem to be heard around town with a loud "whaaaaa" my assessment, well that is not the problem.  It is the tax rate and the budgets.  And no matter what party is in TH, the issue with taxes is at the school and county levels.  If aybody should doubt this, look at where the tax money from your property goes.  As for any member of the TB running due to high taxes or their assessed value, two answer, run for school board or county leg if the taxes are the problem and if your assessment seems to high, do some research on comparables and grieve it.  Done it before, not a hard process.  And don't look for the comparable that GAR used (not the assessors, past or present used) get your own to help your cause!!

As for the past admins at TH, look further back then a year or two this assessment reval that was done was started farther back then everybody seems to remember.

You guys are WAY of base.  Gadfly--get over yourself.  Eunice Esposito has always had the sense to act with both her head and her heart.  That is what is wrong with Cons!  You guys just don't get it.  Tunnel-vision. No room for anyone else who doesn't think like you.  Eunice Esposito has worked hard to make Rotterdam a better place while Reps and Cons seek to destroy what is left of this rambling town.  I don't think you or anyone else so involved in the Town should be holding themselves up as a beacon of ethical and moral standards.  The past administration has already proven otherwise.  This administration still needs to prove itself.

Leave Eunice alone.  Roger Malebranch's words should be considered.