The Elmsford Animal Shelter provides shelter to dogs/cats waiting permanent homes. They are seeking to enlarge their Board of Directors and are also looking for new volunteers. They will be holding two open meetings this Wednesday: January 6th at 11 AM and at 7 PM at Greenburgh Town Hall. If you are interested in volunteering your time and helping this worthy organization - please e mail Hartsdale resident Wayne Osnow at wosnow1@yahoo.com or attend the meeting. The shelter is located in unincorporated Greenburgh, in N Elmsford off of 9A.
Many Greenburgh residents continue to be unemployed. Over a year ago I formed an informal Greenburgh job networking group. I have been encouraging residents to advise me of job openings @ their place of business. I have been sharing the information with residents who have asked to be notified of job openings as I learn of them. I also post job notices on www.linkedin.com (greenburgh jobs group) at least a few times a week & on my facebook page. I estimate that over 30 people found jobs, thanks to this service. If you want to be personally advised of job openings as I learn of them, please e mail me at pfeiner@greenburghny.com. If your business has a job opening - please advise so I can share the info with your neighbors. Neighbors helping neighbors---that is what community is all about.
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Good information to know…………
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" I estimate that over 30 people found jobs, thanks to this service."
Translation:
The Supervisor is patting himself on the back based upon his own estimate.
"They are seeking to enlarge their Board of Directors and are also looking for new volunteers."
Translation:
The Supevisor keeps busy helping dogs/cats find permanent homes and keep Mr. Osnow voting.
What is he doing to assist residents who work like dogs to afford his tax increases? Being a volunteer won't pay the mortgage, pay taxes or even keep Fido fed.
What's next?
The feinerhood of the unraveling sycophants?
Sent to the usual suspects.
It is time that citizens take a closer look at the Council on the Arts. Consider it one of my 2010 projects (think Library). Please treat these questions as the first round of questions seeking an answer in either written format or as "questions to be answered" at the next Town Board meeting.
FROM THE JOURNAL NEWS
"Greenburgh solicits entries for 39th annual Poetry Contest
Posted By Stacy A. Anderson On December 30, 2009 (11:40 am)
Greenburgh’s Arts and Culture Committee will accept entries for its 39th annual poetry contest from Jan. 1 to March 15. The contest is open to all residents of New York state.
Poems must be original, previously unpublished and no longer than 50 lines. The $7 entry fee covers two poems per person. Children ages six to adults can enter the contest. However, first place winners of previous contests are prohibited from entering again in the same age category.
Cash prizes for winners range from $15 to $100. Poems by the top 10 percent of participants who reach finalists’ status will be published in the 2009 contest anthology, “Let the Poets Speak.” Winners will be announced at an awards program in May.
To receive a print copy of submission guide-lines and an official entry form, send a self-addresses, stamped, business-sized envelope to: Greenburgh Poetry Contest, Arts and Culture Committee, 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh, NY 10607. To download guidelines and application from the Internet, go to www.greenburghartsandculture.org."
Dear Mr. Morgan as "liaison to the Council on the Arts":
PLEASE RECOGNIZE THAT THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED UPON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS COMMITTEE (AFFILIATED WITH AND SUPPORTED BY THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH) DISBURSES CASH IN VARYING SUMS TO CHOSEN RECIPIENTS, NOT TO ALL WHO APPLY.
Please explain the process of how the Arts and Culture Committee was selected? Is it an appointed Committee? Was there ever notice given for potential members? What criteria and qualifiers were used to select the members.
Who processes the $7 entry fee and holds the proceeds. Are there written financial records to sustain this?
When does the Council on the Arts meet? Where? How often? Are meeting minutes available?
Are there written guidelines as to how the winners are determined?
Why do Greenburgh taxpayers pay to support a "Council on the Arts" if it is providing service to the entire New York State?
If the answer is grants, please list all grants received for fiscal year 2009.
Are municipalities allowed to sponsor contests offering financial incentives without prior State approval? If not, has Greenburgh obtained same?
Furthermore, having looked at the application I see that lip service is given to hiding the identity of applicants presumably so that the Committee will conduct an unbiased review of submitted work. However the application (accompanying the submission and payment) asks the name and address of the "poet"; this does not provide the assumed assurance of anonymity that the contest language infers.
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Also, I noticed that the Council on the Arts sponsors something akin to a Kids Short Story program/competition with application fees ranging from $95 (resident) to $120 (non resident). This implies a considerable amount of proceeds collected and I am curious as to whom is the beneficiary of these proceeds? where the program is conducted? and the qualifictions of those who run it?
Finally, I note that per The Journal News, the White Plains Public Library runs a poetry "slam" contest. Since Greenburgh taxpayers already support their own Library(ies) at great expense to its respective taxpayers, what justification can be given for why Greenburgh taxpayers must commit to an additonal and considerable expense to maintain a separate acknowledgement of the arts? Especially since Greenburgh taxpayers not only sponsor a Community Center, the Library, an after school program (Xposure) and is home to several public school districts and private schools and the introduction to the Town's 2010 Budget acknowledges that there are harsh, economic times afoot.
this is a test for my new account.
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