Village Budget Hearing

..........is about as boring as the small booklet of paper that the proposed budget was printed on....... It can't be exciting all the time folks!  Very little was brought up as a concern over the proposed budget.  I was expecting Kay Doheny to filibuster every line item of the budget.  Maybe next years budget! 

Hearts For Youth was represented by Cindy Penn and Todd Hunter.  I was waiting in the wings to support any requests that they might have.  They came to the VB to request an increase in the villages contribution to the youth group. The contribution from the village for the past 3 years has been $10,000.  I agreed when they asked it to be increased to $15,000.  The AUDIO for this can be heard by clicking here.

At 1 min:16sec HFY discusses now having to charge for all the youth programs.

A lot of silence in this audio.

The mayor makes this statement: "people in the village are getting hit twice for the same program".  4min:26sec.

Here is a comment that I received 4/19/09 12:15 pm.  I thought it should be added here:
Dean Erck said...

The mayor does not understand the funding for Hearts for youth under the town budget structure. HFY is funded by the Town in the General fund B part of the budget and that exempts village residents. How does he not know this? How does Gebo and Sharon not correct him? There are some things improperly charged to the village residents but HFY is not one of them.

H4Y was asked what the Town contribution was, They kick in $26,000 annually.  H4Y had asked them for an increase of $6,000.  The Town denied the request. 14min:10sec.

The VB wanted to wait and see how the village monies were holding out. They promised to review the finances and said their might be a possibility of some extra money in September 09.  At this point it did not look good for any increase from the village. Village Clerk, Sharon Cullen and Attorney Gebo came up with an idea to use money collected from Penalties  on taxes which has a surplus balance.  This would have no impact on our budget.  The amount to be contributed  will be determined in May 09.  14min:50sec.

Personally I can not believe the Town would not offer some increase.  But then again I was not at the Town meeting when the increase was asked for.  Maybe I will make the next one.

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