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NOW YOUR ERIC SEVERIED MOMENT MY PERSPECTIVE ‘26
THE BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENT BY KEN JENKINS I FEEL A LOT WAS MISSING. THERE WAS NO BREAKDOWN OF SPECIFIC FACTS ON HOW MUCH COUNTY CAPITAL EXPENDITURES WERE BEING USED TO HANDLE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS: HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS.
THE COUNTY HAS TO MAKE PEOPLE’S NEEDS LIKE EATING A CAPITAL EXPENSE. HOW MANY UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARE GOING TO BE BUILT AND WHERE? HOW MANY? HOW SOON? IN THE CITIES OR IN SACRPSANCT TOWNS? AND
ON THE OPERATING BUDGET WE WERE HEADED FOR THE BEST SURPLUS IN SALES TAXES WE’VE EVER HADIN THE COUNTY. ARE WE?
WHAT ARE THOSE BONDS REALLY GOING TO COST US?
THERE WAS NO MENTION OF PLAYLAND CONTINUED EXPENSES.
LOCALLY DEVELOPMENT OF WHITE PLAINS WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE PLANNING BOARD AGENDA. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS ARE PILING UP AT THE PLANNING BOARD.
WHAT IS THIS IMPACT GOING TO BE ON NEIGHBORHOODS AND TRAFFIC? AND SPEAKING OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING HOW AFFORDABLE ARE THEY GOING TO BE? SINCE THE AVERAGE COST OF A HOUSE IN WHITE PLAINS IS AROUND 600,000 AND AN APARTMENT IS AROUND 3,000 DOLLARS A MONTH.
AS COMMON COUNCIL CANDIDATE CARUSO SAID IN THE FORUM YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT THE FACTS. THE CIRCUMSTANCES. THE DEMAND. DO MARKET RESEARCH PROFESSIONALLY TO DO DEVELOPMENT RIGHT.AND IF THE CITY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE REAL ESTATE SITUATION IS THE PLANNING BOARD HAS TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS OR BE AWARE OF WHAT THE ANSWERS ARE.
THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION IN THE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF WHITE PLAINS. COMMUNICATIONS HAVE IMPROVED 100% WITH A PROFESSIONAL MEDIA PERSON IN THE CITY BUT THE STATISTICS HAVE BE FOUND OUT ON PROBLEMS.
SEWERS.
THE COUNTY COMPLAINING ABOUT GREENBURGH REPAIRING A CHRONIC FLOOD ZONE ON COUNTY LAND
YOU CAN’T MAKE POLITICS UP.
THAT IS RIDICULOUS AND THE COUNTY DEFENDING ITS TURF THEY SHOULD HAVE SENT COUNTY WORKERS IN LONG AGO.
THERE ARE NO SOLUTIONS DETAILED ON THE FLOODING THAT POLLUTED SOUTH SHORE BEACHES AT LEAST 10 TIMES THIS PAST SUMMER. THAT HAS TO BE DONE NOW.
WHY NOT MENTION THAT KEY DETAIL OR START WORK AND PLANNING WITH THOSE TOWNS, MAMARONECK, LARCHMONT RYE NOW FOR THE SPRING. JUST SUGGESTING.
NOW MY 250 YEAR PERSPECTIVE
OUR REVOLUTION THAT BEGAN 250 YEARS AGO CONTINUES TO INSPIRE UKRAINIANS UNDER AS MUCH RUTHLESS BOMBING AS LONDONERS HAD IN THE BLITZ BY THE LUFTWAFFE.
YET THE UKRANIANS HAVE FOUGHT RUSSIA TO A STAND STILL. THAT DESPITE U.S. AID BY WASINGTON SPOTTY STINGY SUPPORT BY U.S. LEADERSHIP .I AM ASHAMED AT AMERICA’S PERFORMANCE AS AN ALLY.
THE COLONISTS WHO FOUGHT ON BATTLE HILL HAD THE SAME SPIRIT UKRANIANS SHOW TODAY. THEY BELIEVED IN DOMOCRACY.
THEY DID NOT TOLERATE REPRESSION UNFAIRNESS AND IRRESPONSIBILITY IN GOVERNMENT.
PERSONS WITH OTHER AMBITIONS AND OBJECTIVES IN THIS COUNTRY MAY TRY AND TWIST THE WORDS OF THE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS AMENDMENTS.
THE COLONISTS THE FIRST WHITE PLAINS MEN AND WOMEN. THEY BELIEVED EVERY WORD. THEY WERE NOT NUANCISTS. THEY KNEW WHAT WORDS MEANT.
THEY HEARD THE FIRST READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT THE ARMORY STILL STANDING DOWNTOWN 250 YEARS AGO.
THEY BELIEVED IN IT. THEY WERE EDUCATED. THEY KNEW RIGHT FROM WRONG. THEY DIDN’T MAKE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS WITH A DICTIONARY.
THAT’S WHY THEY DIED SUFFERED AND STOPPED THE BRITISH ARMY THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD
AT THAT TIME. THEY FOUGHT THEM FROM HILL TO HILL—BATTLE HILL TO MILLER HILL. THEY LAY AT REST IN THE RURAL CEMETERY. A WALK IN THAT CEMETERY IS A TEST.
THE GRAVE STONES LOOK UP AT YOU. THEY CHALLENGE YOU TO BE AS GOOD A MAN OR WOMAN AS THEY WERE BECAUSE AFTER 5000 YEARS OF HISTORY OF TYRANNY SLAVERY LOOTING PILLAGING AND STEALING, ONE COUNTRY AFTER ANOTHER CONQUERING AND TAKING SLAVES —-
ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER AND STOPPED IT. THEY THREW OUT THE REDCOATS. FOR A VERY BRIEF 250 YEARS HAS SHONE A BETTER WAY DEMOCRACY, RIGHTS, COMPASSION HELPING. MAY WE RECAPTURE THAT MISSION WITH YOUR VOTE NO MATTER WHAT YOU VOTE YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR VOTE SAYS.
YOUR VOTE COUNTS USE IT.
THIS IS JOHN BAILEY REPORTING FOR WHITE PLAINS WEEK. GOOD NIGHT AND THANK YOU!