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#1430379 --- 12/23/13 11:43 PM
Re: Mayor sells out?
[Re: Mean Gene]
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By JIM MILLER jmiller@fltimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:40 am
PENN YAN — The Village Board is back up to a full complement of trustees.
Mayor Bob Church appointed Carolyn Benedict Tuesday to fill the vacancy created when Mike Christensen resigned last month to become Milo’s town justice.
Benedict, who was appointed at the start of the board meeting, took her seat immediately and will serve until Christensen’s term expires in March. Then, she’ll have to run for the office.
“She contacted me and showed interest,” Church said. “She plans to run in March.”
Benedict currently works for Genesee BOCES, and she previously served as the Penn Yan school district’s business official.
In other business Tuesday, the board:
• AGREEMENTS: Approved two inter-municipal agreements with Yates County. The county will share some of its occupancy tax revenue with the village and help the village offset the costs of two anticipated payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements related to hotel projects.
The Legislature approved both agreements earlier this month as a way of helping the village handle the costs associated with the new hotels.
Church said the village has long sought such agreements.
“As you know, it’s been a thing with me that the village does provide a lot of services and does not get much back in return,” Church said.
He thanked Christensen, Trustee David Reeve and county officials for their efforts in the negotiations.
Church said the deal was key to allowing future development to go forward.
“This is a very huge deal for the village and will also bring added sales tax revenue to the county,” he said.
Taylor Fitch, the Legislature’s chairman, joined Church in signing the agreements after the Village Board’s unanimous votes.
“I can feel confident that a healthy village of Penn Yan, a healthy county seat, benefits the entire county,” said Legislature Tim Dennis, who chairs the county’s Finance Committee.
• TAX CAP: Scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Jan. 21 on a local law to override the state’s tax cap for 2014.
The law would not require the village to exceed the cap but simply give it the option.
• JUSTICE: Approved the appointment of David Grace as acting village justice through March 31. He will fill out the remaining term of Acting Justice John Symonds, who resigned earlier this month
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#1430380 --- 12/23/13 11:59 PM
Re: Mayor sells out?
[Re: Believer4]
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By JIM MILLER jmiller@fltimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:40 am
PENN YAN — The Village Board is back up to a full complement of trustees.
Mayor Bob Church appointed Carolyn Benedict Tuesday to fill the vacancy created when Mike Christensen resigned last month to become Milo’s town justice.
Benedict, who was appointed at the start of the board meeting, took her seat immediately and will serve until Christensen’s term expires in March. Then, she’ll have to run for the office.
“She contacted me and showed interest,” Church said. “She plans to run in March.”
Benedict currently works for Genesee BOCES, and she previously served as the Penn Yan school district’s business official.
In other business Tuesday, the board:
• AGREEMENTS: Approved two inter-municipal agreements with Yates County. The county will share some of its occupancy tax revenue with the village and help the village offset the costs of two anticipated payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements related to hotel projects.
The Legislature approved both agreements earlier this month as a way of helping the village handle the costs associated with the new hotels.
Church said the village has long sought such agreements.
“As you know, it’s been a thing with me that the village does provide a lot of services and does not get much back in return,” Church said.
He thanked Christensen, Trustee David Reeve and county officials for their efforts in the negotiations.
Church said the deal was key to allowing future development to go forward.
“This is a very huge deal for the village and will also bring added sales tax revenue to the county,” he said.
Taylor Fitch, the Legislature’s chairman, joined Church in signing the agreements after the Village Board’s unanimous votes.
“I can feel confident that a healthy village of Penn Yan, a healthy county seat, benefits the entire county,” said Legislature Tim Dennis, who chairs the county’s Finance Committee.
• TAX CAP: Scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Jan. 21 on a local law to override the state’s tax cap for 2014.
The law would not require the village to exceed the cap but simply give it the option.
• JUSTICE: Approved the appointment of David Grace as acting village justice through March 31. He will fill out the remaining term of Acting Justice John Symonds, who resigned earlier this month They sat there and told the people half the story which in this case is worse than a lie, why didn't Church announce that the village is buying the boat company from the county?
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#1430457 --- 12/25/13 06:34 PM
Re: Mayor sells out?
[Re: TheKing]
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where do you get this info? Resolution No. 92-2013 passed by the village board December 17, 2013, the PILOT AGREEMENT for the two new hotels is that the county will now pay the developer's village taxes for the next 10 years. I wonder where the county gets their money from? BUT the county makes the village take the revenue from "ELM STREET Microtel HOTEL PILOT AGREEMENT and the LAKEFRONT HAMPTON HOTEL PILOT AGREEMENT and use it for improvements to roads, recreation area[s], sidewalks and the Keuka lake outlet trail, and the financing thereof, IN A AREA west of Lake street and east of the Keuka Lake outlet and KEUKA LAKE [the Infrastructure Project] AND the village covenants that it is aware of the laws governing the USE OF PAYMENTS provided under this agreement, and the village agrees to use the payments disbursed pursuant to this agreement only in the manner so allowed. The Village Board at the October board meeting vote to take out a $2,000,000 half grant half loan for this Lake street project and then have the village residents pay it back by charging us higher water, sewer, electric rates, that information came from a village trustee, and this came from 2 board members, it was part of the UNWRITTEN AGREMENT that the village will buy the toxic boat company and that the developer has back-out of the plans he proposed to the county and village. To me it looks like the LAKEFRONT HAMPTON INN PROJECT investors have a lot of pull.
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#1430598 --- 12/28/13 04:07 PM
Re: Mayor sells out?
[Re: Believer4]
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By JIM MILLER jmiller@fltimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:40 am
PENN YAN — The Village Board is back up to a full complement of trustees.
Mayor Bob Church appointed Carolyn Benedict Tuesday to fill the vacancy created when Mike Christensen resigned last month to become Milo’s town justice.
Benedict, who was appointed at the start of the board meeting, took her seat immediately and will serve until Christensen’s term expires in March. Then, she’ll have to run for the office.
“She contacted me and showed interest,” Church said. “She plans to run in March.”
Benedict currently works for Genesee BOCES, and she previously served as the Penn Yan school district’s business official.
In other business Tuesday, the board:
• AGREEMENTS: Approved two inter-municipal agreements with Yates County. The county will share some of its occupancy tax revenue with the village and help the village offset the costs of two anticipated payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements related to hotel projects.
The Legislature approved both agreements earlier this month as a way of helping the village handle the costs associated with the new hotels.
Church said the village has long sought such agreements.
“As you know, it’s been a thing with me that the village does provide a lot of services and does not get much back in return,” Church said.
He thanked Christensen, Trustee David Reeve and county officials for their efforts in the negotiations.
Church said the deal was key to allowing future development to go forward.
“This is a very huge deal for the village and will also bring added sales tax revenue to the county,” he said.
Taylor Fitch, the Legislature’s chairman, joined Church in signing the agreements after the Village Board’s unanimous votes.
“I can feel confident that a healthy village of Penn Yan, a healthy county seat, benefits the entire county,” said Legislature Tim Dennis, who chairs the county’s Finance Committee.
• TAX CAP: Scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Jan. 21 on a local law to override the state’s tax cap for 2014.
The law would not require the village to exceed the cap but simply give it the option.
• JUSTICE: Approved the appointment of David Grace as acting village justice through March 31. He will fill out the remaining term of Acting Justice John Symonds, who resigned earlier this month Read the fine print in the agreements and you will see that the Mayor has sold the village taxpayers out, all property taxes the county will be paying the village for the 2 new hotels for 10 years and the occupancy taxes from the 2 new hotel $7,000 a year for the next 10 years and a $1,000,000 loan that will be paid back by village residents in the form of higher electric, sewer and water rates must be spent on the Hampton hotel and surrounding area. The county will not be sharing any sales taxes with the village and the village will be stuck with paying all the infrastructure cost related to this one hotel, who are the investors? This great deal for the county was shoved ahead before the new year so Fitch and Church could push it thru while their cronies were in line and before they both leave their positions, Fitch as chair of the county legislators and Church as Mayor of the village. Here's the big sell out the village will buy the still toxic boat company from the county for $1, and hold a note for the developer who claims he no longer is interested in his original plans of developing the site, but he might try one townhouse at a time and if that don't go then he goes. Because the county didn't follow the procedures the developers wanted them to in cleaning up the site all those who were interested in investing millions into the site have dropped out, so the county found someone foolish enough to take this nightmare off their hands, that person is our Mayor Bob Church.
Edited by helpme (12/28/13 04:10 PM)
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#1430783 --- 12/31/13 01:38 AM
Re: Mayor sells out?
[Re: helpme]
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Registered: 11/15/13
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By JIM MILLER jmiller@fltimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:40 am
PENN YAN — The Village Board is back up to a full complement of trustees.
Mayor Bob Church appointed Carolyn Benedict Tuesday to fill the vacancy created when Mike Christensen resigned last month to become Milo’s town justice.
Benedict, who was appointed at the start of the board meeting, took her seat immediately and will serve until Christensen’s term expires in March. Then, she’ll have to run for the office.
“She contacted me and showed interest,” Church said. “She plans to run in March.”
Benedict currently works for Genesee BOCES, and she previously served as the Penn Yan school district’s business official.
In other business Tuesday, the board:
• AGREEMENTS: Approved two inter-municipal agreements with Yates County. The county will share some of its occupancy tax revenue with the village and help the village offset the costs of two anticipated payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements related to hotel projects.
The Legislature approved both agreements earlier this month as a way of helping the village handle the costs associated with the new hotels.
Church said the village has long sought such agreements.
“As you know, it’s been a thing with me that the village does provide a lot of services and does not get much back in return,” Church said.
He thanked Christensen, Trustee David Reeve and county officials for their efforts in the negotiations.
Church said the deal was key to allowing future development to go forward.
“This is a very huge deal for the village and will also bring added sales tax revenue to the county,” he said.
Taylor Fitch, the Legislature’s chairman, joined Church in signing the agreements after the Village Board’s unanimous votes.
“I can feel confident that a healthy village of Penn Yan, a healthy county seat, benefits the entire county,” said Legislature Tim Dennis, who chairs the county’s Finance Committee.
• TAX CAP: Scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Jan. 21 on a local law to override the state’s tax cap for 2014.
The law would not require the village to exceed the cap but simply give it the option.
• JUSTICE: Approved the appointment of David Grace as acting village justice through March 31. He will fill out the remaining term of Acting Justice John Symonds, who resigned earlier this month Read the fine print in the agreements and you will see that the Mayor has sold the village taxpayers out, all property taxes the county will be paying the village for the 2 new hotels for 10 years and the occupancy taxes from the 2 new hotel $7,000 a year for the next 10 years and a $1,000,000 loan that will be paid back by village residents in the form of higher electric, sewer and water rates must be spent on the Hampton hotel and surrounding area. The county will not be sharing any sales taxes with the village and the village will be stuck with paying all the infrastructure cost related to this one hotel, who are the investors? This great deal for the county was shoved ahead before the new year so Fitch and Church could push it thru while their cronies were in line and before they both leave their positions, Fitch as chair of the county legislators and Church as Mayor of the village. Here's the big sell out the village will buy the still toxic boat company from the county for $1, and hold a note for the developer who claims he no longer is interested in his original plans of developing the site, but he might try one townhouse at a time and if that don't go then he goes. Because the county didn't follow the procedures the developers wanted them to in cleaning up the site all those who were interested in investing millions into the site have dropped out, so the county found someone foolish enough to take this nightmare off their hands, that person is our Mayor Bob Church. One correction the occupancy tax from the 2 new hotels will be closer to $15,000 a year but this must also be spent at the lake street hotel area by agreement for 10 years.
Edited by helpme (12/31/13 01:40 AM)
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