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NOW!! WE NEED TO DO IT NOW!
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: May 8, 2020, 5:12 pm
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NOW would be a good time for The Village of Fairport to shelve
their recent property Tax hike, for The Fairport School District
to shelve their $60 million School Improvement budget, and for
The Town Of Perinton to shelve their outrageous property
reassessment hikes. We are currently the most heavily taxed
village on the canal, two to four times as much as even
Pittsford. (see the graph below)
NOW would be a good time to consider dissolving The Village of
Fairport. It would save the average homeowner about $2000 -$4000
a year. We simply can't afford this unnecessary layer of
government under these circumstances.
NOW would be a good time for everyone to challenge these
administrations and the way they seem to think adding more
taxation is the way forward.
Our area depends on small businesses, and most employees are in
the service industry, restaurants, bars, retail, etc Not the
highest paid jobs, for sure. . Many of those people are out of
work, and are renting their homes. They won’t be able to pay
rents, or mortgages. The Supt of Schools admitted 23% of our
school children are claiming free lunches. That was BEFORE this
pandemic hit us.
THIRTY THREE MILLION NOW UNEMPLOYED - and the number grows
daily.
I am horrified to think how many of them are in our area, and
how many of these jobs (along with the businesses) will be lost
forever.
Fairport and Perinton Taxes are out of control.
We need strong leadership, and a sharp knife to drastically
reduce our taxation. If they can’t cut the expenditure to a
similar rate, at least to Pittsford's level, they should all
resign - NOW.
#Post#: 1092--------------------------------------------------
Re: NOW!! WE NEED TO DO IT NOW!
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: May 8, 2020, 6:11 pm
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See how far out of whack Fairport is!
#Post#: 1093--------------------------------------------------
Village Officials will never volunteer to leave their jobs
DIR By: Village Taxpayer
Date: May 10, 2020, 10:21 am
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Simply wishful thinking that anyone working for a village would
leave their job to reduce their neighbors tax bills, sorry but
this effort will most likely go nowhere.
Can anyone remember a time in Fairport's history that the
Village Leadership talked about too much government and the need
to downsize?
Can anyone remember a time when the Mayor of Fairport ever said
that village residents were paying too much for their local
village government?
Does anyone believe the village would volunteer to eliminate the
little empire they have built on the taxes of others?
Village Leaders who live in Fairport or Perinton, spend a few
thousand dollars each for taxes like the rest of us, but they
get a very large return in salary and benefits that they simply
won't give up on their own. They say it's not in "our" best
interest, but the truth is THEY are the only ones getting a
DIRECT benefit from having the village remain in place, and
spending their neighbors hard earned money.
It's called a paycheck, and it's currently in short supply these
days.
Their answer to this Village Tax Problem is always the same, no
matter what village you live in. Mayors, Clerks, anyone getting
a paycheck from this simply uses one word for those who say it's
wrong or unfair.
Move!
No one's holding a gun to your head to stay and pay those taxes
they will tell you...move.
Move, if you don't like getting robbed by your Village Mayor and
the others every June when your third Tax Bill arrives.
Stop complaining and just move away if you don't like the status
quo, because NYS Village Leaders know that their best offense is
simply denial that THEY are the problem, not the people they are
telling to move.
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Re: NOW!! WE NEED TO DO IT NOW!
DIR By: Doug K
Date: May 10, 2020, 5:20 pm
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I would have to agree with this statement too...
Simply wishful thinking that anyone working for a village would
leave their job to reduce their neighbors tax bills, sorry but
this effort will most likely go nowhere.
But hopefully more people get tired of the "same old same old",
and start to band together for change.
It will only go no where if village taxpayers let it, they have
the power to change it with a vote.
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