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March 16, 2012
To the Editor:
I urge the Village residents to vote for Jan Smith and Barbara Gosda. I feel they reach out to the public, listen to residents, and struggle to ensure the Village Board acts in the best interests of the taxpayers.
The best candidate currently running is Jan Smith. Jan has decades of experience as an auditor for the Federal government, and a steadfast sense of honesty and integrity. We need Trustees who have the ability to decrease the Village debt, without causing major increases in taxes. If you want a Trustee who is able to accomplish this, Jan Smith is your candidate. Jan’s experience as an auditor gives her the ability to make heads and tails of the Village budgets, and enables her to determine what the best course of action will be in the future.
Barbara Gosda has spent several years in office, immersing herself in activities that allow her to get to know the residents, and what issues are important to them. Activities like the Hike and Bike and the Village Yard Sale not only add to the positive, family style nature of the Village, they also allow residents to get to know Barbara, and what she is about. Positive, friendly, and beneficial activities are what Barbara is about.
Barbara also takes the time to uphold her fiduciary duties as a Trustee. It is the fiduciary duty of each Board member to ensure that tax dollars are spent properly, and in a manner as to minimize Village debt and the chance of raising taxes. Barbara has been accused of being an obstructionist, a dissenter, and a negative person. Yet, she stayed strong through these accusations, and kept urging that residents cannot afford the tax increases our overwhelming debt is causing.
The current Board majority has struggled to throw large sums of money at a highly questionable project. Former Mayor Moulton provided an explanation of how the 2005 Bond money was spent. The article presents the concept that the project was needed due to deficits in the Village budget. Yet – why were there such deficits in the first place, especially when Village debt was so high? If the Board was encountering deficits and debt, why did they choose to take on more debt as the answer? The 2005 meeting minutes show that the Board was aware of the deficits in June 2005. Yet, they went ahead with the July 2005 Bond resolution a month before the LDC contract was signed. Rather than electing to postpone the project and not incur more debt, the 2005 Board chose to take on more debt and use the project to pad budget deficits.
The community does not need that. We need elected officials who act to reduce debt without taking on more debt, and stop revolving our debt until sky-high taxes are inevitable. Jan Smith and Barbara Gosda are the candidates fighting to accomplish this. They do not question to be uncivil, they do not argue for arguments sake, they argue for you.
Melissa Vellone
Cornwall-on-Hudson
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