A NICE STORY...CAPITAL BUDGET APPROVED

A VERY NICE STORY ABOUT A FANTASTIC RESIDENT…
BOARD APPROVES CAPITAL BUDGET—FUNDS $1.5 MILLION FOR ROAD RESURFACING…SPACE SAVER TO AVOID SPENDING $21,000 A YEAR LEASING SPACE AT WESTY’S …FUNDING FOR CRIME ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
From: Dan [mailto:dan

Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:55 PM
To: Paul Feiner


Supervisor Feiner,

My name is Dan and I live a little north of you in Armonk. I am on the Board of the Greenburgh Public Library Foundation. I wanted to send a quick email to tell you about a really positive experience I had in Greenburgh today. I’m sure you hear about all of the negative things…

My wife recently got a traffic ticket for a broken tail light and we had to go to the Greenburgh court today. (It was fixed and the ticket was dismissed), but that’s not the point of the email.

At court there was an elderly man who appeared in front of the judge and he was really having a hard time physically keeping up with what was going on. The Judge told him that he would have to pay a certain amount and he replied that he was on Social Security and could not afford it. The Judge told him to stick around until after everyone else was done (I’m sure she was trying to help him out). A woman who was sitting near this man went before the Judge when it was her turn, but after she was done she paused near her seat and wrote out a check to help this elderly man pay his fine.

I have to say that my wife and I were blown away by this act of kindness and I think it speaks in a very positive way about the character of people that are living in your community.

As I said before, I’m sure people are not shy in sending you negative things and I thought it was worthy to send this along to you. Good luck and I look forward to meeting you at some point in the future.

Sincerely,

Dan

Greenburgh Town Board approves capital budget
The Greenburgh Town Board approved a capital budget of $6,089,000 tonight. The Board voted unanimously to increase funding for road resurfacing from my original proposal: $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. I agree with the Board. Some of our roads are in bad shape. We need to maintain our infrastructure. We will be going out to bid shortly. We anticipate that the roads will start being repaved in the fall –some of the work may not take place till the spring. We are currently evaluating all our roads.

The Town Board also authorized the expenditure of $68,000 (which was not in my original budget) for a space saver filing system. The town has been leasing space at WESTY’s to store police records. The cost: About $21,000 a year. With this new space saver filing system – police records will be stored at Town Hall. We will be able to avoid the $21,000 expenditure. The funding includes security for our records room. A final change to my proposed budget: the police dept requested $25,000 for a crime analysis software module which will help the police dept do their job efficiently.