As part of our 2010 Budget Review for The Town of Mamaroneck, we are looking at a proposed 5 year Street & Sidewalk Repair schedule which will be funded to a large extent by a Bond issue. This represents a departure from the way we have been doing it in the recent past where the monies came out of our operating budget. Doing it this way will allow us to do twice as much work in a much shorter time period as was heretofore been possible. Interested parties, with concerns about particular streets, should pay attention to our Budget hearings and make their concerns and feelings heard.
Our next General Budget discussion will be taking place during our upcoming Work Session which starts at 4:30p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18th in Conference Room A in The Town Center.
I feel that to better encourage our citizen's participation, we should be publishing more details about when we will be discussing what, as it regards our budget.
I wish more of our citizens, if they agree, not just about the budget, but all of our Town Agenda items, would let their feelings be heard by my fellow council people. They can do this via e-mail, letters, phone calls or, best, by showing up and speaking up at our Town Board meetings. Next one is Wed. Nov. 18, 2009 at 8:15 p.m., in the Court Room of the Town Center.

Hope to see you there.

Ernie

If you have 7+hours to spare, you can view The Town Board's All Day Budget Session of Oct. 30th this afternoon starting at 4:30 on Channel 77 Cablevision or Channel 34 Verizon. It will be repeated tomorrow morning (Tuesday Nov. 10th) at 9:00am same channels. We are working with LMC-TV to schedule additional airings.

Interested parties are welcome to tomorrow's 5:00pm budget session in Conference Room A in The Town Center where we will be discussing 2010 Capital Projects as well as Revenue. Check out the Town website for more details www.townofmamaroneck.org

The next airings of the all-day session will be at 4:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 19th and Friday, Nov. 20th at 8:00 am . Both will be on Channel 77 Cablevision and Channel 34 Verizon.

Thanks to everyone that came out to vote on Tuesday. I appreciate the chance to continue to serve The Town of Mamaroneck as one of your Council people. I am certain Nancy and Valerie are thankful for your participation as well.

At our Town Board meeting this evening, while I was bemoaning the fact that we should be giving out more information to our residents regarding Agenda Items in general and our Budget Hearings in particular, one of my fellow Council people, Phyllis Wittner, suggested that hardly anyone cared. She sited the lack of any e-mails, letters or phone calls to her and no one in our live audience clamoring for these details that it was a non-issue. If any of my blog readers feel differently, I suggest you send Phyllis an e-mail letting her know your sentiments. She gave out her e-mail address at the meeting and invited comments. You can reach her at pwittner@townofmamaroneck.org

I felt that the more you knew, the better able you might be to comment and make useful suggestions about the budget. We are trying hard to keep it tight while maintaining the high service levels we have all come to expect in The Town of Mamaroneck.