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An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 18, 2020, 11:05 am
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Yesterday, many of the businesses in Fairport and Perinton
closed their doors! Employees were told to seek unemployment
insurance. Most of these were in the restaurant and bar
industry, noted to rely on tipping and not well paid.
You can almost guarantee that many of these workers were parents
who had claimed on the school free lunch program, they would be
designated by our school district as living below the poverty
line.
Our school superintendent stated recently that 23% of our
children fall into this category. That is a DISMAL record that
everyone living here should be thoroughly ashamed of.
We, the ECNA, have proven that Perinton and Fairport are the
highest taxed town and village on the Erie Canal. See the
webpage at www.ecna.us for proof. It should therefore come as no
surprise that some people can no longer afford to live here.
As this epidemic continues, with so many out of work and ill,
and most businesses unable to survive, our property values are
going to drop like a stone. People will be forced to sell up.
Many businesses will fail into Bankruptcy. Foreclosures will be
common, crime will increase, and our world will fall apart.
Village officials need to do something right now
REPEAL THE NEW SCHOOL BUDGET IMMEDIATELY.
STOP THE PROPERTY LATEST TAX HIKE!
STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY LIKE WATER.
We have far more important things to worry about now! Please
give our residents the relief they need to survive this.
Thank you
Michael Caswell.
Erie Canal Neighbors Association
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www.ecna.us
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 18, 2020, 5:23 pm
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Well! Common sense at last!
Well done Fairport & Perinton Officials!
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WARNING! TAX ASSESSMENT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR TOWN!
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Another Canal Neighbor
Date: March 19, 2020, 5:21 pm
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Bravo. Chalk one up for town citizens, thank you ECNA
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Doug K
Date: March 20, 2020, 1:15 pm
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Thanks for sharing Mike, small steps get the job done nicely.
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 22, 2020, 3:00 am
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Our village seems to like spending our hard earned money. The
most recent thing is these drain labels.
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They look like ceramic, and there is one one every drain in the
village. With the labor cost of the installation, that must have
run up quite a few thousand dollars. Its a drain for crying out
loud! Why do we need a sign on it. Any idiot could see if the
drain is blocked, just make a public statement to ask residents
to keep a lookout for blockages and remove them.
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New signs for Oxbow Road. Really? The village won't maintain
this trail entrance, that my wife tripped over the uneven
surface and had to be rushed to hospital with head injuries. She
suffered severe bruising, and was sore for weeks. But they can
put up brand new signs instead of simply cleaning the old ones.
They were fine, but had gone green.
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At the same entrance are these pads for the blind. As you can
see, these are already becoming a tripping hazard and have
peeled up from the sidewalk. And look at the install. They
actually ran some caulk around the edges. What purpose did the
serve? It certainly wasn't for its adhesive properties. What a
complete waste of time and money!
I have never seen a blind person in our area either. Surely,
there are better ways to spend our money than this? It's not
like there is any traffic down this trail entrance, it is only a
drive entrance for one residence. No vehicular traffic is
allowed on Oxbow Rd. By the same logic applied here, every drive
on Erie Crescent should have a pair of these on the sidewalk.
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Nathaniel H
Date: March 24, 2020, 1:53 pm
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"I have never seen a blind person in our area either." Well, to
be fair, they've also never seen you.
In all seriousness, whether or not you have a seeing-impaired
person among your neighbors, governments (even local
governments) have to follow the Americans with Disabilities Act,
and cannot pick and choose when to do so.
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 25, 2020, 6:09 am
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Nathaniel. Ha! Very funny. :)
My point is why would they put this pad here? It's the drive to
a private residence. By their logic, every drive should have
one. Common sense and some regard to cost have been abandoned
here. Lets not confuse the issue please.
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Re: An open letter to Fairport and Perinton officials
DIR By: Doug K
Date: March 25, 2020, 11:21 am
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Welcome Nathaniel, thanks for the chuckle, great point as well.
Two words here that matter most, but seem to have faded over
time, Common Sense.
Sound thinking, and having a sense that truth & facts matter is
not "common" any more. To put it differently it is very
important that as we strive to "do things the right way" , we
also have good sense to be actually doing the "right things".
Doing something to follow a law, guideline, or requirement may
offer improvement opportunities when someone points out where
it failed. Like not fastening a safety walk to dirt & stone.
People are fighting against Canal Embankment Safety work in our
area, which flies in the face of " common sense" to most, and
when you try to point it out there's always resistance. In fact,
many people seem to put emotion & opinion in place of truth &
facts, and think that is common sense.
Mike was leaning in that common sense direction, like we do here
in the ECNA, there's a time when people have to do the "right
thing" not "do things right"... sometimes we need to point out
to some in our society, what most other people understand to be
commonly held truths. Its part of continuous improvement, it's
meant as an opportunity to make change, and save some money
perhaps.
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