Rotterdam supervisor sets year’s priorities Town focuses on new police and justice building, code enforcement and economic development By John Purcell As of Thursday, January 3, 2013 -4:02 p.m.
#ROTTERDAM — After settling longstanding issues during his first year in office, Rotterdam Town Supervisor Harry Buffardi says he is ready to delve into other looming concerns.
#The Rotterdam Town Board on Tuesday, Jan. 1, held its organizational meeting and unanimously approved more than 50 resolutions preparing the town for the year, including appointments and reappointments to various positions. Councilman Robert Godlewski was absent from the meeting. Before speedily adopting resolutions, Buffardi reflected on the administration’s accomplishments and goals for the coming year.
#Town officials for several years have discussed constructing a new Police Department and Justice Center, but a solution could be reached later this year, Buffardi said.
#“We need to pursue efforts to bring a new Police Department and Justice Center into the town to replace this very old, dilapidated building they are in now and bring them up to code and up to where they should be,” he said.
#The town is hoping to find a developer to construct the facility and then allow the town to lease it, so the town doesn’t have to finance the project itself and can spread out the cost, according to Buffardi. He said it would be similar to the long-term lease the county did for its Human Services Building on Broadway and Schenectady County Community College with Center City.
#“We are looking into those strategies right now,” Buffardi said. “We are looking at a couple different locations right now.”
#Buffardi declined to offer any further details on the project, because the town is still in negotiations. He said the town would determine if the cost will fit into its budget, but savings through implementation of the county’s Unified Central Dispatch in 2014 could be used to help finance the deal. The town was estimated to be saving around $160,000 annually through centralized dispatch.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"save a few bucks and then spend it all away" That is the mantra of governmentalists first and foremost. They don't view the money as belonging to the lowly taxpayers.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
A long overdue issue that is - thankfully - finally going to be addressed.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
A long overdue issue that is - thankfully - finally going to be addressed.
of course YOU are NOT paying for it! So here you are again, cheering for increasing taxes on those who can't afford it.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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