Thursday, March 17, 2011

REVENUES UP IN COURT...SUGGESTION- NIGHT TRAFFIC COURT...LIBRARY FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER

REVENUES UP IN COURT $515,266 IN 2011 COMPARED TO $401,658 LAST YEAR
Last year the Greenburgh Town Board appointed Regina Hill as the first Court Administrator for the town of Greenburgh. She was highly recommended by Judge Apotheker, who is overseeing the Greenburgh Town Court on behalf of the NYS court system. The appointment is paying off. This is the comparisons of court revenues from January 1st to March 16th for three consecutive years.


2009: $365,187.77, as of 3/16/09

2010: $401,658.50, as of 3/16/10

2011: $515,266.00, as of 3/16/11



TOWN BOARD WORK SESSION TUESDAY AT TOWN COURT, NOT TOWN HALL

The Greenburgh Town Board will hold our next work session AWAY FROM TOWN HALL--ON TUESDAY, MARCH 22ND. The work session meeting will be held at Greenburgh Town Court on Tarrytown Road. Among agenda items:

Thomas Madden will provide the Town Board with a report and recommendations: uses for Frank's Nursery (which we took over via foreclosure). We are seeking revenue opportunities for the town. We will then meet with Regina Hill and discuss the court operations.



ANOTHER REVENUE GENERATING IDEA FOR THE COURTS--AND A CONVENIENCE FOR RESIDENTS: TRAFFIC COURT ONE EVENING PER MONTH



During the Town Board Work Session scheduled for Tuesday, March 22nd, Court Administrator Regina Hill will propose that Greenburgh Court should have Traffic Court one evening per month. All three Judges are already in agreement.



We currently have night court for Small Claims every Monday night. I am proposing that one of the night Small Claims court be changed to a Traffic Court night. This will give us an additional court session to schedule not guilty pleas for a conference. This additional night court will also increase our revenue for the day.



GREENBURGH LIBRARY FOUNDATION TO HOLD FUNDRAISER AT GREENBURGH LIBRARY MAY 23RD

SAVE MONEY IF YOU RSVP IN MARCH

Books and Cooks will be May 23, Monday, at the GPL at 6PM. Hon Restaurant Chair is Peter Kelly and Hon Author Chair is Ben Cheever….cost is $125 and we will offer a $10 discount for March.
Funds raised will be used to help the Greenburgh Library.

PAUL FEINER

2 comments:

Fed Up With Feiner said...

Doesn't the supervisor know that the court does not generate the revenue...the police officers and parking enforcement officers generate the revenue; the court merely collects it. Ms. Hill gets a $25,000 raise while the people doing the work get a pay freeze. That makes a lot of sense!

Anonymous said...

First, one would need to know how many "opportunities" were generated in each respective period and second what was the average value of these "opportunities"? Then one would look at the collection rate of total "opportunities" to see what the comparative results have been. Assuming that the Town's Chief Financial Officer is not inclined to do this, while he lauds the results, as usual he fails to understand that these current results may be a very damning indictment of years of his prior mismanagment in that hundreds of thousands of dollars should have been collected in decades past. Where did they go? In Ms. Sia's pocket? Has the Town even considered a possible criminal investigation to recover possible misappropriated funds? Of course not.