tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post7004866579504525218..comments2023-10-30T06:13:34.382-04:00Comments on Supervisor Feiner: TOWN BD TO DISCUSS FINAL CHANGES TO BUDGET TUESDAYPaul Feinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17087805120754057844noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-72746581597355871562008-12-18T12:13:00.000-05:002008-12-18T12:13:00.000-05:00and hartsdale's decline followed shortly thereafte...and hartsdale's decline followed shortly thereafter.....<BR/><BR/>the only real business in this part of the world is the schools - <BR/><BR/>poor schools - poor community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-38643184670285628432008-12-18T10:10:00.000-05:002008-12-18T10:10:00.000-05:0011:13 - you make no sense. hartsdale's school syst...11:13 - you make no sense. hartsdale's school system was terminated 35 years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-62280236799849794502008-12-18T10:07:00.000-05:002008-12-18T10:07:00.000-05:00If my elderly parents lived two roads away, I'ld b...If my elderly parents lived two roads away, I'ld be a good son and take 5 mintues a week to carry their gargabe cans curbside for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-55608745079914425082008-12-18T06:02:00.000-05:002008-12-18T06:02:00.000-05:00right now taxter and hart's brook are only paid fo...right now taxter and hart's brook are only paid for by unincorporated greenburgh (the operating and maintenance costs)<BR/><BR/>taxter is in east irvington - not hartsdale<BR/><BR/>however, taxter and hart's brook were paid for by all town residents by virtue of the 2/3rds contribution by the state and the county.<BR/><BR/>as ny residents we pay for national parks in alaska, hawaii, and even puerto rico - you probably will never see or use all of them<BR/><BR/>but the greenburgh way of only charging part of a town for a park everyone can use sounds wrong - the court of appeals will tell us in 2009 if its legal or not when it decides the bernstein case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-79676321705669912062008-12-17T23:13:00.000-05:002008-12-17T23:13:00.000-05:00Yeah - and let's SELL the 124 acres of Hartsbrook ...Yeah - and let's SELL the 124 acres of Hartsbrook park in Hartsdale. NY state and Westchester County and GREENBURGH purchased it - 1/3 each. This must be investigated. It's like Illinois. Call the Governor.<BR/> If you can find it, go there and see the work of the aborists and landscapers and trail makers paid for by unincorporated greenburgh in our taxes. <BR/><BR/>oh no - I forgot - it's in Hartsdale and benefits hartsdale schools - so it must be kept. Only parks in Hartsdale and Edgemont(the Nature Center) should be paid for by the rest of us who are spread out all over unincorporated Greenburgh. The fact that we don't know where it is, or how to get there doesn't matter. It's close to you guys - and Taxter isn't - so the hell with Taxter.<BR/><BR/> I'm hearing the oink oink, hog sound from these H and E people who think the rest of us should eat dirt and die because we don't live in Hartsdale/Edgemont. Sick of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-81728529436590622422008-12-17T23:08:00.000-05:002008-12-17T23:08:00.000-05:00We need garbage pails with covers if you go ahead ...We need garbage pails with covers if you go ahead with this crazy law put forth by the out going commissioner who decided to screw the residents because the heat was getting to much for him.<BR/><BR/>He cannot run from his mistakes and what his underhanded methods were.<BR/><BR/>He together with this board has screwed the residents royally.<BR/>We have had this service of pick ups at the side of our homes for many years, I for one twenty years .<BR/>Paul do your parents bring their garbage curbside .<BR/><BR/>My parents live two roads away from me if anything happens to them while they are taking their garbage curbside I have instruted them to lay there until help comes and then sue the town.<BR/>Your ruling is crazy .<BR/>Regula bought new small trucks WHY???????????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-1950683264180109202008-12-17T05:52:00.000-05:002008-12-17T05:52:00.000-05:00diana juettner also voted to buy this parcel.the m...diana juettner also voted to buy this parcel.<BR/>the moonies got a sweet tax deal from the town for "lowering " their price.<BR/>the open space advocates lobbied for it too.<BR/>the county legislators spend our money so the deal could be completed.<BR/><BR/>the irvington school district didnt want it developed either.<BR/><BR/>so it was purchased without a current appraisal in light of the town' new steep slopes and wetlands law that would have probably cut the price by 40 %.<BR/><BR/>illinois - meet new york.<BR/><BR/>the feds should be called in to root out the corruption oozing out of taxter ridge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-90392647630680483782008-12-16T21:44:00.000-05:002008-12-16T21:44:00.000-05:00You don't need the governor to get an investigatio...You don't need the governor to get an investigation started as to why Feiner satisfied a good friend of his Gold [to give him a big back yard].<BR/>The state comptroller or the Attorney General Andy Cuomo should be contacted to investigate why this purchase was done so quickly for a parcel of land that is a complete dump.<BR/>Gold wanted it and Gold got it at all the taxpayers of New Yorks expense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-59348799202694549462008-12-16T20:13:00.000-05:002008-12-16T20:13:00.000-05:00Ed,When the town has to reach a settlement with a ...Ed,<BR/><BR/>When the town has to reach a settlement with a former employee, the employee didnt just quit. So big deal, Kolesar has political backing of villagers and former villagers and wont get forced out as easy. But the town did have to pay $$$ when at least one former comptroller and one former attoney "quit".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-28907710106719767452008-12-16T17:45:00.000-05:002008-12-16T17:45:00.000-05:00After reading 8:06 AM/12/15/08, it's obvious "the ...After reading 8:06 AM/12/15/08, it's obvious "the early bird" doesn't catch the worm.<BR/><BR/>Of our last four "Comptrollers"-exclding Mike Kolesar, Gisella Knight, a copy editor (nee proof reader) by profession...but a zealous Feiner supporter, left, because she moved out of town.<BR/><BR/>Nora McAvoy, who did the "heavy lifting" Gisella was incapable of, QUIT because she had enough of the heavy-handed, dictatorial, "pseudo-management style" of Kaiser Feiner I. <BR/><BR/>Ann Marie Berg, didn't have Nora's patience, so she too QUIT faster than a Roman candle.<BR/><BR/>Jim Heslop, who needed three more years for his pension, beefed up his pension taking the Greenburgh job. BUT he did as he was told. Not a "hair out out of place," nor a word ever misspokenen. And when his three years were satified, he too QUIT.<BR/><BR/>So 8:06 AM, who forced any of them out? And from whence comes Kolesar's "political support?" In point of fact he works without a safety net, in a non-partisan way (that to some of you "Kolesar Killers, means he shows no preference for TOV or V in his job),to do his job professionally( which this town has NEVER seen from that office) AND in the best interest of us all.<BR/><BR/>Don't ever let facts get in the way of your compulsive need to say or write dumb, ignorant and assinine things. <BR/><BR/>BTW, 8:06 AM, INUENDO SUCKS!ed krausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05884806213564738289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-38644999077553562372008-12-16T15:24:00.000-05:002008-12-16T15:24:00.000-05:00the real issue is how do we get rid of it?anyone k...the real issue is how do we get rid of it?<BR/><BR/>anyone know the governor?<BR/><BR/>and lets not forget the county legislators like abinanti who voted for this unusable thicketAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-4632206598948899202008-12-16T14:33:00.000-05:002008-12-16T14:33:00.000-05:00The state owns one third of Taxter road dump which...The state owns one third of Taxter road dump which means that everyone in the state owns the right to get to use the park if it is ever made usable.<BR/>They deserve the right to that park also because they pay taxes to the state..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-15480936298101241992008-12-16T07:07:00.000-05:002008-12-16T07:07:00.000-05:00taxter ridge has to be opened to everyone under s...taxter ridge has to be opened to everyone under state and county law - villagers paid for 2/3rds of the purchase thru their state and county taxes.<BR/><BR/>the only issue is the 1/3rd greenburgh portion - thats billed only to unincorporated greenburgh and the issue of the legality of that will be decided by the court of appeals in early 2009.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-9997624625226600182008-12-16T07:04:00.000-05:002008-12-16T07:04:00.000-05:00neededa referendum on the tdycc - is it a relic fr...needed<BR/><BR/>a referendum on the tdycc - is it a relic from a segregated past - should it be sold to the ymca or closed?<BR/><BR/> a referendum on taxter ridge - was it a huge divisive mistake that only benefited the irvington school district<BR/> and a few others<BR/><BR/>a referendum on westhab - is there a project less deserving of approval than this one?<BR/><BR/>2009 is the year of the referendum - time to hold juettner , sheehan and feiner responsible for their votesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-63346308861778085152008-12-15T23:32:00.000-05:002008-12-15T23:32:00.000-05:00TDYCC is open town-wide according to the Town Sect...TDYCC is open town-wide according to the Town Section 500 but<BR/><BR/>First, the only non-Fairview people who use it are a few people from Elmsford and White Plains.<BR/><BR/>Second, Section 500 is just as illagal as was the purchase of Tater Ridge which allowed non-residents of unincorporated Greenburgh to use it. The state law trumps our Village Code. Everybody knows that Section 500 was passed to give the Fairview community essential control over its recreation programs. That's OK, but don't kid anybody by saying that the TDYCC is a town-wide facility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-28975724865424883102008-12-15T21:54:00.000-05:002008-12-15T21:54:00.000-05:00Will someone please inform Ardsley resident that t...Will someone please inform Ardsley resident that the town's Department of Community Resources is a town-wide department under Town Code Section 500 and that, if the Town Code were enforced, the villages like Ardsley would be responsible for their fair share of the cost. Is there someone in unincorporated Greenburgh seeking to enforce this law? Yup, there is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-80290051255887121792008-12-15T21:27:00.000-05:002008-12-15T21:27:00.000-05:00I am talking about Ardsley residents, who are just...I am talking about Ardsley residents, who are just as entitled to vote for Greenburgh officials as anyone else in Greenburgh. That they have chosen to ignore these problems speaks volumes. They should not then ask for others to speak for their concerns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-39095333129154207662008-12-15T20:42:00.000-05:002008-12-15T20:42:00.000-05:00dear anon at 6:29ardsley has nothing to do with zo...dear anon at 6:29<BR/><BR/>ardsley has nothing to do with zoning issues at fulton park - its handled exclusively by your zoning and planning board and then the town board <BR/><BR/>same is true or tdycc - its part of the unincorporated's community resources department<BR/><BR/>villages control their own zoning and planning<BR/>we dont interfere with yours<BR/><BR/>personally what is happening at fulton park is a disgrace - the same is true at the tdycc<BR/><BR/>westhab should be told no - the tdycc should be sold to a ymca<BR/><BR/>i wish someone like maria gomez of fulton park would run for office - she is terrific.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>but these decisions cannot be made by ardsley's government.<BR/><BR/>veteran park is 20% in ardsley - but its closed to ardsley residents - thats wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-11748868371179517092008-12-15T18:29:00.000-05:002008-12-15T18:29:00.000-05:00Ardsley,1. Have you stepped up and said the prop...Ardsley,<BR/><BR/>1. Have you stepped up and said the proposed WEsthab rezoning is wrong? They bought the property, they should live with the zoning. <BR/><BR/>2. Have you stepped up and said no-show jobs and no-bid contracts at TDYCC are wrong? <BR/><BR/>You have already made it clear you care only about your own problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-28091809972410546122008-12-15T18:16:00.000-05:002008-12-15T18:16:00.000-05:005:51 -- don't worry, Feiner gives you all the unin...5:51 -- don't worry, Feiner gives you all the unincorporated money he can -- marine unit -- we dont want it - swat ot for village police -- we dont need it. etc etc etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-86693965757069312682008-12-15T17:51:00.000-05:002008-12-15T17:51:00.000-05:00The day will come when unincorporated Greenburgh w...The day will come when unincorporated Greenburgh will need something from the villages (if they don't already). I am sure that the villages will not be as cold and selfish as the unincorporated residents are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-24669210165774265892008-12-15T17:08:00.000-05:002008-12-15T17:08:00.000-05:00spoken like a true thief.spoken like a true thief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-85547139341264445672008-12-15T16:39:00.000-05:002008-12-15T16:39:00.000-05:00Sorry thief, don't think you're gonna find any tak...Sorry thief, don't think you're gonna find any takers. If you've got a gripe, talk to the villages other than Ardsley and ask them why they all supported Finneran? Then ask your village mayor and trustees why then went along with an interpretation of Finneran which restricted use of Veterans to TOV residents only. Ardsley residents would like nothing better than to use a nearby town recreational facility they paid nothing for -- it would do wonders for their declining property values -- but it's not so easy. <BR/><BR/>Ardsley residents will first have to accept that they leaders and their colleagues from other villages may not have had Ardsley's best interests in mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-70860336333112199272008-12-15T15:14:00.000-05:002008-12-15T15:14:00.000-05:00thats a big tax dodge.fact - ardsley taxpayers are...thats a big tax dodge.<BR/><BR/>fact - ardsley taxpayers are subsidizing unincorporated greenburgh's veteran park pool.<BR/><BR/>the sooner you admit that the sooner a resolution can be reached.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-60205546029247182602008-12-15T14:35:00.000-05:002008-12-15T14:35:00.000-05:00It's really not constructive to be calling residen...It's really not constructive to be calling residents of unincorporated Greenburgh "thieves" for insisting what Ardsley itself now says the Finneran Law requires -- that access to Veteran Park be limited to TOV residents. <BR/><BR/>Ardsley felt aggrieved by the Town's decision more than 25 years ago to limit access to Veteran Park, sued for a right of access and won. But the Town of Greenburgh, and all five other villages, lobbied for enactment of the so-called Finneran Law which, as the town and villages, including Ardsley, now interpret it, mandate that no village resident could have access to any town park, including Veterans Park, unless the residents of that village agreed by referendum as of November 1, 1982 to pay their fair share of the costs of all Greenburgh parks and rec facilities. Ardsley said no, and has been barred ever since -- and Ardsley agrees that that's the way Finneran must be construed. <BR/><BR/>So calling residents of TOV "thieves" is not at all constructive. <BR/><BR/>Maybe the Finneran Law will be declared unconstitutional, in which case Ardsley will get access at the price of having to pay for all of the town's parks. Or maybe the Finneran Law will be deemed constitutional, and the state legislature will amend it to permit the town to allow non-TOV residents to use town parks for a fee. But don't count on it. <BR/><BR/>Ardsley made its bed most recently by supporting the lawsuit that seeks to uphold Finneran's constitionality and by doing that, instead of trying to compromise, Ardsley's once again made its case far less sympathetic than it might otherwise have been.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com