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WHITE PLAINS WEEK for 11-3 is on youtube…
here’s the link
posting to www.whiteplainsweek.com now.
PETER KATZ, JOHN BAILEY, JIM BENEROFE
$15 MILLION SHORTFALL ALREADY MADE UP BY RED HOT COUNTY SALES TAX DOLLARS AFTER 9 MONTHS–NO NEED TO LEASE THE AIRPORT
ASTORINO AND LATIMER–DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME
LATIMER PAYS HIS PARKING TICKETS
ANOTHER EPISODE OF TRUMP THE PRESIDENT WITH PETER KATZ
SECRECY SURROUNDS TRANSIT DISTRICT INTERESTED PARTIES
PAULINE OLIVA–AN HISTORIC RETROSPECTIVE
Pauline Oliva, Councilwoman, Advocate for the Less Fortunate, Dies
WPCNR MILESTONES. From the McMahon, Lyon and Hartnett Funderal Home website:
Pauline C. Oliva, a lifetime resident and longtime civic leader of White Plains passed away peacefully on October 31, 2017 at the age of 91. She was proud of her Irish and Lithuanian roots and was the daughter of two immigrants Alexander and Mary Johnson. She was predeceased by her husband of 66 years Patrick, and her beloved brothers Vincent, Charles, and Edward.
Pauline is survived by her three children, Patricia Lynn, Edmond (Margit), and Thomas Oliva, three grandchildren, Marland (Julia) Oliva, Lillian (Stephen) Rasulo, Edmond T. Oliva, and three great grandchildren. She also leaves behind her loving sister-in-law Angie Johnson and several nieces, nephews, cousins and their families.
Pauline was a graduate of White Plains High School and later earned a degree in Labor Studies from Empire State College. Pauline worked in government service for more than 30 years, first with the New York State Department of Labor and later for the Westchester County Department of Planning, where she served as the Program Director of Section 8 Housing Programs.
She was a longtime member of the White Plains Beautification Foundation, White Plains League of Women Voters, Women’s Club of White Plains and White Plains Hospital Center Auxiliary and a past President of the Battle Hill Neighborhood Association. Pauline served on Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church Parish Council. She was a lifelong Democrat and until her death was an active member of the City of White Plains Democratic Committee.
Pauline was elected to two terms on the White Plains City Council serving a term as Council President. A reelection endorsement by a local newspaper described her as “…the shining star on the Common Council because of her work for quality neighborhoods and her many other innovations.” Her legacy on the Council as well as in life was as an advocate for the less fortunate.
As an animal lover Pauline was a parent to many cats and dogs. She found time to be an outstanding cook and baker with the help of her Italian mother-in-law who shared many of her original recipes. Pauline loved to garden and cheer on the New York Yankees. She was always willing to step up and volunteer and coached her sons’ Little League teams when no one else would.
Pauline received the City of White Plains Human Rights Distinguished Service Award and the Rotary Club‘s Paul Harris Fellowship Award. She was inducted in the White Plains High School Hall of Fame and received the White Plains League of Women Voters’ award for dedicated community involvement.
With all of these accomplishments, Pauline was best known to White Plains residents for her warm and welcoming personality, her modesty and compassion, beauty and great sense of humor. She is already missed by her devoted family, and her numerous friends, colleagues, and neighbors.
Contributions can be made in Pauline’s memory to the White Plains Beautification Foundation (PO Box 1614, White Plains, 10602) and Forgotten Felines (PO Box 430, Valhalla, 10595).
Visitation will be Friday from 2-4 & 6-9pm. Mass Saturday at 10:00am at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church with interment to follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
McMahon, Lyon & Hartnett
491 Mamaroneck Ave
WESTCHESTER COUNTY SALES TAX $$ ON TRACK TO WIPE OUT $15 MILLION SHORTFALL THAT ASTORINO AIRPORT LEASE DEAL WAS CREATED TO CLOSE. WHITE PLAINS SALES TAX DOWN 3.9% IN ITS FIRST QUARTER–RETURNING TO ITS ERRATIC PATTERN
WPCNR QUILL AND EYESHADE. From the New York State Department of Finance, reporting by John F. Bailey. November 3, 2017:
On the eve of County Executive Robert Astorino’s schedule to submit his 2018 budget, 4 days before the County Executive election, the county coffers are brimming with a solid nine month gain in County Sales Tax Dollars of 3.4%, creating a very handy windfall of $12.8 Million through nine months.
The county is throwing up record numbers.
The County has made $389,545,503 in sales tax coin, $12,788,989 more moola than the county had in 2016 after three quarters ($373,756,520 in 2016).
Mr. Astorino does not need the airport deal as a deficit closer.
This means Mr.Astorino could withdraw the airport deal entirely. He devised the airport lease to make up the deficit caused by over optimism in 2015 in predicting a 14% increase in sales taxes for the 2016 budget (a wild guess that was approved by the Board of Legislators).
He does not need it.
He almost has it in hand this month.If he says he does, he should pay attention to these figures. How can he justify a 40 year deal for a one year deficit that’s being erased? Funny the County legislators aren’t questioning him on it.
The Astorino Airport Lease Deal devised this year would deliver $15 Million up front whenever it is agreed to, (or any deal the Board of Legislators chooses to support) to cover that $15 million dollar “overoptimism,” followed by payments for 40 years. The $15 million “budget gap” is rapidly being closed by the robust sales tax receipts across the county, gaining monetary momentum the last three months.
Let’s pay attention what this means:
If the county now sitting on $389,545,503 in sales taxes receives the tax receipts it received last year in October($40,724,262) November ($40,041,594) and December ($51,355,703) to close out 2017, it will finish the year with $15,788,963 more in sales taxes ($521,667,062) compared to the 2016 figure of $505,878,099.
Isn’t that nice?
That’s a 3.1% increase in sales tax receipts.
If the receipts go up 3.4% the rest of the way for the county, an additional $4.5 Million may roll in, creating a $20.3 MILLION sales tax increase, more than enough to wipe out the wildly optimistic increase predicted for 2016 that was just unfounded. How sweet it is.
There is no joy two blocks away from the Michaelian Building at White Plains City Hall. The county rise in retail/restaurant spending is not being spent in White Plains, New York, USA.
September Sales Tax receipts in White Plains declined $1.2 Million to $3,706,161 from the robust $4,904,462 Million in August.
Unfortunately the news on sales tax revenues in White Plains are not keeping pace with its wild $4.7 Million August greeted by this reporter with hallalulias. Turns out it was fool’s gold.
They should be shaking their heads in the bunker at 355 Main Street wondering where the money went all of a sudden.
Sales tax dollars coming into White Plains as of September 19, dropped after the first three months of the city fiscal year to $12,297,250, a 3.9% decline. Perhaps October, November and December will rev up the sales tax dollars. Let us hope so.
The mystery continues as to the lackluster performance of White Plains business.
Those millennia renters cannot come soon enough to White Plains..