Katie Connolly! The Town Clerk of course. Katie Connolly has been busy running around and putting together the Supervisor’s tentative budget. Why is she doing this? Because the Supervisor is inept and incapable of doing a budget. How she has the time while serving as a party commitee person and apparently writng what appears to be a severly spelling challenged web blog, is anyone's guess.
Last year it was Connolly who plugged in the numbers in one of the most bizarre budgets ever witnessed. The Supervisor issued a press release claiming a 3% tax hike. Yet the math showed a 33% increase. No said Evers 33 is 3 not 33. But numbers don’t lie, politicians do and when the budget was finally adopted the 33% was cut to about 13%. (We’re sure Evers called this a tax cut!)
Now a year later, it’s the Town Clerk trying to plug in all the numbers once again. Last year she was the only employee to attempt to grab a 6% pay hike instead of the 3% everyone else got. The Town Board cut the increase back and froze their own part time salaries.
The other interesting budget issue to watch will be how the 2007 budget hike was reduced from 33 to 13%. It was done by placing $235,000 in revenue in the budget from GEIS fees owed to the town by developers who are the financing powers behind the Evers slate. The number was given to Evers by the town engineer Tom Murley and is equivalent to the entire tax reduction from the original Evers budget.The thought was that the Supervisor would make the needed effort to ensure these fees were paid to the town which would realize the revenue to balance the budget.
However, it appears none of that revenue has been realized wich could spell an interesting time for the town meeting expenses at the end of the year.Equally apparent is that the Supervisor did nothing to collect the revenues. Instead, when the Town Board voted to require payment of these fees by the developer at the 4 & 43 intersection before a building permit could be issued, Evers voted NO! It passed but the developer is apparently suing the town in an effort not to pay and that suits Evers just fine. No pay, no balanced budget for 2007 and a structural deficit built in to the 2008 budget. (We bet Evers is glad he illegally hired those two secretaries he his running out of money to pay!)Evers has stated he intends no tax increase for 2008 so look for lots of phoney reveune in his, or shall we say, the Town Clerk's budget, when it is made public shortly.
Bets are in that the Town Clerk will again try for a 6% salary hike for herself and bets are also coming in that Evers, jobless after loosing his private sector job, will try to make his salary a full time hit at 60, to 80K! Imagine how much damage he could do if this were a full time job!
Stay tuned as we follow the budget and keep wondering Why 4 party bosses would endorse Mark Evers?
Late Financial Disclosure
Kyran Devery
Today is Day 74 for the North Greenbush Democratic Committee violation of State Election Law requiring the on line filing of a Financial Disclosure Report due July 15, 2007. Laws apparently don’t apply to the “reformed” democrats under Jeff Spain and his Treasurer, Tax Collector Kyran Devery.
Hint, we're told a lawsuit will be filed very shortly to force the filing of this report. Way to go Kyran!
7 comments:
LET ME UNDERSTAND!! IF THE BUDGET FOR LAST YEAR WAS 33% DECREASED TO 13% BASED ON THE GEIS MONEY THAT DID NOT HAPPEN --THEN WE ARE STILL DEFICIENT FOR THE 33 LESS 13=20%.
IF YOU ADD 20% TO THIS YEARS ?(SAY 13%) THAT'S =33% FOR THIS YEAR++ THE NEW HIRES AND NEW CARS AND NEW NEW NEW --THAT'S MABY 50%
THE ANTICIPATED RENT FOR A STORE LOCATION IN THE NEW 4-43 MALL WILL BE IN THE $30 / SQUARE FOOT RANGE AS WE HAVE BEEN TOLD. IF THE TAXES GO UP 30% -THE RENTS WILL HAVE TO GO UP AND THAT WILL PUT THEM HIGHER THAN NYC RETAIL SPACE AT $45-50/SF. HOW MUCH MORE WILL THE PRODUCTS COST US HERE IN NORTH GREENBUSH THAN NEW YOUR CITY BECAUSE OF CANOLI AND EVERS. TIME TO MOVE!!! THAT WILL BE ENOUGH TO SCARE GE AND OTHERS OUT!!!THANKS EVERS YOU ?#@$%#@@
The numbers may be wrong on the percentage but essentially you are correct. We had a deficit for last year which was not addressed in this year's budget. Evers has failed to produce "budget to actual" reports to the board despite repeated requests. This would show the deficit at the point in time it is produced.
Bottom line is there will have to be substantial spending cuts to deal with the deficit and to restrain the tax hike that would otherwise be necessary to maintain staff etc at its current rate.
Evers will likely produce a phoney election year budget with unrealistic revenue projections to appear as though everything is fine. We'll be watching!
Someone answer why the Clerk had a proposed pay raise of 6%, when all other employees were 3%? It's certainly not because she remembered to sign the Oath Book. And as for Mark Evers quitting his job. If that is true, we shouldn't vote for him based on stupidity alone. He told the Rebublican Committee, he hoped the position would become full time because he couldn't live on the small pay he gets now. Why would you quit a good-paying full time job for $20,000/year? My bet is he was fired for not doing his job. Of course, they would call it mutual agreement, or something like that.
Wonder Woman? How many hats does this woman wear? Comptroller, Supervisor, Consultant to the Assessor, and now the Budget. Is this because she screwed it up so badly last year that she wants a second chance? One night after a Town Board meeting she was overheard saying that Premo didn't know what he was doing so she had to do his job for him. Hope the poor thing has the time to do her own job!
Don't forget her role running the Democratic Committee. You just know she does there what she does in town all.
ANSWER TO WHY EVERS QUIT ???? HIS JOB? THE SUPERVISORS JOB WITH THE PERKS !!!! AND PAYOFFS WILL PAY MUCH MORE.
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