Wow. That's substantial. As a resident of Yorktown, make sure you pay attention to the budget. It's really boring and hard to follow, but you very well may spend around a thousand dollars a month in property taxes, if not more. You want to know where that is going. I've been paying attention for about 5 years, was duly elected to serve in a department of Yorktown as Vice President of a Park District, and I still have questions.
That said, your water bill just went up 25%. There was a long Town Board meeting last night and there were a lot of good comments. I dare you to watch the whole 2 hour and 52 minute meeting held on 3/1/2016 ; I know you won't, but at least the 15 minutes below:
Take it away, Ed Ciffone and Susan Siegel;
both long time residents and studious citizens monitoring the
complicated ~55 million dollar budget, and continually growing (about 5 million
in the last 4 years?) budget. Please note that Ed's questions will not be answered at the end as promised by the supervisor in this clip--if you whatch the whole thing--which we've established you won't. The gist of the rate increase is that the supervisor lowered the water department budget and drew off its fund balance so he could campaign as having delivered a tax decrease. Those chickens are now coming home to roost and we're likely to see a lot more of this. Yorktown expenditures exceed revenue and the budget keeps growing under Grace.
Oh, and before I sign off, WE STILL DON'T HAVE FLUORIDE IN OUR
WATER. I grew up in a small Colorado town with no fluoride
'cause--whatever--and my teeth are shit. Please, I have four
daughters. If you watch the whole meeting, you can see Supervisor Grace
declare the fluoride system to be in the "engineering phase." My God,
it's been about two years without. Fire the engineer and get this
done. Question: has the fluoride system been deducted out of the
general water district fund? It's about a 1 million dollar line item, right?
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