The best plan for Schenectady County is to consolidate all of the municipalities into a single City-County and all of the school districts into a single Central School District. It is long overdue for the state to reduce the number of governments and taxing districts. It would be preferable for the initiative to consolidate to come from the local level. But since there has been little, if any, leadership on this issue coming from the local level, it may have to be instituted by an action of the Governor and State Legislature.
Yep, and hire TONS of more overpaid cops in what is now the towns and send them into what is now the city, so we taxpayers in the towns have to pay for it all.
And then why do you REFUSE to address the FACT that we taxpayers (of which you are NOT a taxpayer) will be forced to pay for tons of new buses, the insurance, the additional gas and wear and tear on the buses to take all the gang city kids and bus them all over what is now the county.
Gee, I maybe the gang kids will be bused to Shalmont and when they leave the school they'll come by and do their stuff on the house you hang out it. Oh, what would the city gang kids do with a mama's boy.
You can cheer and shake those pom poms for all the extra busing related costs, you can shake those pom poms and cheer for the increased police costs, you can cheer because YOU DON'T PAY TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!
But DV, we own our homes we do NOT want to see our homes lose value like what is happening in the city under the dems. Even look at the town, have YOU seen what homes are going for these days around Altamont Ave and Hamburg St?????? Have you seen it???????? Of course YOU do NOT have the intelligence to understand what is happening UNDER THE DEM leadership!
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.
How will the towns be able to continue to provide fire protection when the number of volunteer fire fighters drops too low and the cost of paying for the numerous volunteer fire districts keeps going up? How will the towns be able to provide police protection when those costs keep going up? How will any of the municipalities maintain roads, parks and other infrastructure and services when those costs keep going up?
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OK, so you DO ADMIT that consolidation WILL CAUSE A HUGE MASSIVE INCREASE in costs. DUH DV, what kind of nitwit are you. As you do not now, nor ever, have paid taxes IN the city, and it appears your parents did not either, you do not know what will happen when all the towns have to add TONS of new HIGH PAID fire staff plus all the lucrative benefits and overtime. Where we currently have towns with no cost, the consolidation into one municipality WILL IMMEDIATELY CAUSE A MASSIVE TAX INCREASE.
Then think of schools. Many times right now schools in the city for example, may be open on a snowy day, but the some in the towns may be closed. That DOES happen a lot. So if it's one school district then ALL the schools would have be closed because it's highly doubtful a portion of a school district would remain open.
Oh yeah, how about a school district that has Pre-K and a school district that does not. You merge them all into one and there will be a huge increase in cost because all the (existing) schools will add pre-K and that will mean more teachers, more teacher aides, more supplies, more insurance, more benefits, more pension costs.
Oh my god, are you for real?????? You KNOW NOTHING about the heavy burden you wish to impose throughout the county just because your fellow WUSSes in the city are causing the city to fail big time.
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.
TIB is right about unwinding the money. The school has a budget gap due to being stiffed by by the city? Why, we will just vote to sell an asset (Oneida School) that isn't ours to sell to fix that. Never mind that unless the money from the sale is in your hand, it doesn't fix a budget hole. Never mind that there is only one potential buyer for that property so there will be no such thing as getting a good price. Never mind that the constant expansion of the hopital has ruined a neighborhood. We will just spread disinformation that the building is in terrible shape or that taking a school away when parents don'twant us to is somehow going to help the children who aren't learning.
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