Good News, not Great News, but Good News

Adam Sichko reports in the April 19, 2011 Business Review that the Albany area’s March unemployment rate dropped to 7.2%, down 0.5 percent from March 2010.  You can read the article at http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2011/04/19/albany-areas-unemployment-drops-to-72.html.

G. Scott Thomas reports in the April 25, 2011 Business Review that New York ranks 7th in U.S. employment growth, with an increase of 56,500 nonfarm jobs between March 2011 and the same month this year.  You can read the article at http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2011/04/25/nys-ranks-7th-in-us-employment-growth.html. 

Thomas also reports that all but three states added jobs between March 2010 and March 2011. The exceptions were Kansas (down 6,000 jobs), New Jersey (down 1,700) and New Mexico (down 100).

Good News - Yes.   

Great News - No.  Not for those who are still unemployed, and unfortunately, I'm sure we all know someone who is.

A quick review of the 2010 Census Data reveals that:

• East Greenbush's population grew by 913 (5.87%) from 15,560 to 16,473 during the 2000 to 2010 period.
• Rensselaer County's population grew by 6,891 (4.52%) from 152,538 to 159,429 during the same period.

East Greenbush accounted for 13.25% of Rensselaer County's growth over the decade and 47.70% of its growth since 1980!! 

Board of Education Adopts 2011-2012 School Budget

Posted April 15, 2011 on http://www.egcsd.org/index.php

The East Greenbush CSD Board of Education adopted a budget for the 2011-2012 school year at its April 13th Board meeting. The budget totals $84,730,093 and represents a 0.52 percent reduction in spending from the current year’s budget. Despite school officials cutting spending, the 2011-2012 budget carries a 2.8 percent tax levy increase, due largely to a $4.7 million loss in NY State operating aid.

The adopted budget includes full-day kindergarten, as well as positions earlier proposed to be cut from art, music, social work, guidance and continuing education. The budget also provides partial restoration of cuts made to athletics, business education, and family and consumer sciences.

The budget calls for the elimination of 33.15 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, including teaching, administrative and support staff.

You can learn more about the budget at the public hearing scheduled for Wednesday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goff Middle School Cafeteria.

Additional budget presentations are scheduled at each of the District's schools during PTO meetings in April and May. These presentations are open to the public and will take place at the following times and locations:
Goff MS- April 27 at 7 p.m.
Columbia HS- April 28 at 7 p.m.
Bell Top ES- May 2 at 7 p.m.
Genet ES- May 2 at 7 p.m.
DPS ES- May 3 at 7 p.m.
Red Mill ES- May 5 at 7 p.m.
Green Meadow ES- May 5 at 7 p.m.

Voters will go to the polls on May 17 to decide on the proposed 2011-2012 school budget. Voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at polling locations at Bell Top Elementary School, DPS Elementary School, Green Meadow Elementary School and Goff Middle School.

To learn more about 2011-2012 budget, please attend one of our public budget presentations or visit our Budget & Tax Wepage

Why Bother

Its apparent  that  losing  candidate  Taylor  is  simply  going to write  whatever  crosses her mind - true and  factual or  not. Mostly  she makes up stuff to  suit her needs which is  clearly  to  stir  dis-content and  make  people uneasy  about  Town business. She brings up and makes up  conflict that  doesn't  exist just to start trouble.
  She has yet to acknowledge her  termination from two of her  previous  employers and yet she throws  as much mud at the  current  administration for their  sucessful and productive hires-  jealousy?  You are  free to conjour up your own conclusions but  we  would  ask you  this  one  simple  question :   why would  a  woman who so desparately desires  Town office contiually make statements  that are  clearly misleading and  quite  simply  not  true?   She has insisted  that nepotism, double dipping  and  cronyism are  specific  to  the  Dems  yet she  conveinently  fails to acknowledge ALL the cronyism of the  Cristo appointments  and  the  King  of  pension padding- Rick Matters.    Fair is  fair and  ya know  what?  Its about  time  we  all set the  record  straight.
 Bottom line:  Taylor  has NOTHING of  any  consequence to write, nothing really  to  complain about  of  any  substance.   The  Ambulance  District debacle is a  direct  result of  Rick Matters  stalling and his  continual refusal to entertain offers  from  cash/check carrying entities  looking to purchase  the  rescue  vehicle.  A  Move that  would  clearly  "lighten the load" on the overburdened tax  district.
 The time  for  the  Taylor  trash talk is  way over - yet she has apparently  no life to speak of and  nothing but time on her hands.    Too bad that she  simply  can't  focus on anything  else-  her  temper  won't  allow it.    Someone so  desirous of  local office after all her lies and  distorted facts  makes one think of  exactly  what she's  truley up too.
    Many of us are quite  sure that  nepotism and  cronyism would  run rampant in her little  world, and  as  was done in the past with the  Cristo hires , no interviews or  resumes  would be handed in and  as  was the  case  with Defruscio, Grant and  Breig(s) -  a  hand shake from party  faithful would  suffice.  Sound  familiar?  Yup - same  stuff she and Cristo complain about  daily-  wonder where they learned all that ?     Constant  complaining is all they know - nothing of any substance -  just a  daily  dose of  "sore loser" ,  admittedly  by  their  supporters .  Focus on the positive -  or whatever else makes you happy.    Your continual ficticious blabbing is  getting  boring- your  lies  detract from your already damaged  reputation.  

Lets get some opinions- shall we ?!

Political  know-it-all and  two time  losing  Town Board  candidate Ann Taylor has  once again decided to throw  some  undeserved and  arrogant  snowballs at the  Supe- Rick McCabe. 

In the interest of  rhetorical spin journalism ,  write  whatever you want  Ann,  just be  prepared for the  backlash that is  guaranteed to follow.  You and  Cristo made it a  point to alienate almost ALL Town employees  the past two  elections  , and then  cry and  scream  foul when they didn't  support  your  failed  campaigns.  Go figure?!?  It's  almost  like;  C'mon Man!!  You  must be  kidding!  

Anyway- because  I'm confident  that  little  miss numbers  lady  is  actually  screaming  for  help - see her latest add in the most recent  addition of  " Our  Towne"   where  she  advertises her  alleged  bookeeping  skills and her  ability to  handle  paperwork for  small business owners.  OK-  good  luck with that and  I hope that none of your prospective clients  ever check your backround  references-  fired/terminated  TWICE  from  banking positions  and  having to be  physically  escorted from one of the  businesses!    Best of  luck though - really -  NOT!!!

  Ann -  Rick McCabe  is so far  ahead of you and  your campaign mate  Cristo and  neither of you could  ever  come close to his  accomplishments  in the  political arena  nor the volunteer/personal arena.  You can  throw  snowballs  all day long  ann-  but  reality is  that your  truley  envious  of the  man and  your  starting your  smear  campaign  because  quite  frankly,  THE  TOWN IS  RUNNING ALONG  QUITE  WELL  WITHOUT  YOU !   You and cristo  screwed  up  things  well enough  last  year-  we  fixed them again and  things  are moving  along  flawlessly - no thanks to you or any of  your supporters. 

Therefore and in the interest of  equal time  and   play -  tell us what you  really  think  of  Ann Taylor-  she  makes  things up as she  goes  along -  and  I believe she  mis-placed her  Dale  Carnegie paperback because  she has  clearly  forgotten  how to  make  friends and  influence  people!  Feel free to say exactly  what you  think -  and ...:  note  to  reformers  and " her  people"  -  don't  bother - this one is  for  us, not  you !  Time for some  chathartic  venting - AGAIN  -  let us celebrate  the  enigma  we've all come to know  as  Ann Taylor -  NOT!!

Oh -  I almost  forgot - Rick  worked  for  35  years  as a  teacher for the  Rensselaer City School District and  collects  his  very  much deserved and  earned retirement.  As far as  what he gets  from the Town,  he gets  his  approved  salary and  NO  retirement  benefits , he is not in the NYS retirement system- nor does he receive any health care benefits  from the  Town!  That's  truthful-foilable FACT!

Citizens Fiscal Advisory Committee Meeting

The Citizens Fiscal Advisory Committee has scheduled a meeting for Monday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m.

Mr. Robert Pasinella, Executive Director of the Rensselaer County IDA, will meet with the Committee.