Look at where the dough goes, and it is going first and foremost to the big
money end of town.
Not exact matches
The work is part
of the biggest parks project in Hanover Park since 1974, when the district borrowed
money to build the Community Center at 1919 Walnut Ave.. Since then, new residents have poured into developments built at the south
end of town, creating a need for more parks there,...
Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay
Town Supervisor John Venditto «traded their office for
money, plain and simple,» a federal prosecutor said in closing arguments marking the tail -
end of the one - time elected leaders» 10 - week - old corruption trial.
He says he's working to get approval for the commission that Riverhead
Town has advocated as a way
of fast - tracking projects at EPCAL and, among other things, has been instrumental in establishing the Stony Brook Business Incubator in Calverton; has secured grant
money for the J. Kings food processing facility in Baiting Hollow; and has helped to create a synergy among the three East
End hospitals.
Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay
Town Supervisor John Venditto «traded their office for
money, plain and simple,» a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments marking the tail -
end of the one - time elected leaders» 10 - week - old corruption trial.
East
End state Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) called the proposal «bold and unprecedented,» noting that it builds on the recent extension
of the Community Preservation Fund, a 2 percent tax on real estate transfers in the five East
End towns that was enacted in the late 1990s and now features a provision mandating that 20 percent
of those
monies be used toward water quality initiatives.
Officials from East
End towns and villages are being asked to contribute
money toward a comprehensive socio - economic study
of the East
End fishery.
So it would have been a characteristically bravura, publicity - grabbing touch if the U.S. Attorney had chosen the
end of last week to unveil a federal indictment
of Mayor Bill de Blasio on campaign - finance - related charges — while de Blasio was out
of town, jetting to Chicago and Fort Lauderdale and Beverly Hills raising
money for his reelection campaign.
«We were able to finally at the
end of the year bring it in with a slight variance over budget so that it wasn't losing
money,»
town Supervisor Angie Carpenter said.
Families moving into the
town because
of the award winning school district, district wide Universal Pre-Kindergarten, organic diversity, a mix
of urban and suburban life, coupled with a big inventory
of affordable homes has flooded the schools and left the district scrambling to make
ends meet with less
money.
Our hope is to
end Monroe's many years
of strife caused by the battle for control
of the
Town Board with its far - reaching powers over annexation, zoning, board appointments, permits, tax
monies, and employee hiring» said Michael Egan who led the negotiations for United Monroe and Preserve Hudson Valley; Emily Convers, Chairwoman, United Monroe; and John Allegro, Director, Preserve Hudson Valley in a joint statement.
Finally, the referenda in the East
End towns to extend the Community Preservation Fund (CPF) another 20 years and allow up to 20 percent
of the
money raised to go to improving water quality passed — by 69.5 percent on Shelter Island.
When the time came to vote for two
of the three contenders for the two
Town Board slots that will be opening up at the
end of this year — his own and Republican Bob Ryan's — Hughes led the pack with 117 votes to Stacy Lipari's 80; Zoning Board
of Appeals member Frank Klepeis finished out
of the
money with 53.
In a unanimous vote that surprised even some
of the members, a Legislature dominated by representatives from the suburbs voted to
end the longstanding practice
of giving nearly one - third
of the sales tax
money to suburban
towns, villages and school districts.
But because sales - tax
money has been distributed according to population, rather than property assessments, the impact
of ending the credits will vary from
town to
town.
This approach would leave more and more
of Connecticut's public schools without the
money needed to provide comprehensive education programs and would, in the
end, threaten the quality
of education in our public schools while leading to higher local property taxes as
towns are forced to rely even more heavily on regressive property taxes.
She
ended up in a tiny Colorado
town barely ahead
of a blizzard with no
money, no wallet, and only her Louis Vuitton luggage to keep her company.
That
money — about $ 3,500, which she kept in a sock hidden under a pile
of towels in the linen closet —
ended up being used to cover her living expenses during a spell
of unemployment after moving to a new
town after she was separated.
Any time I think
of the Berkshire situation — savvy outside investor targets a company in a dying industry in a small New England
town — I can never help thinking
of Other People's
Money, with Danny DeVito's «Ben Graham» style value - investing analysis to the company's management and his Prayer - for - the - Dead speech at the
end to the shareholders.
And despite isolating himself in a small fishing shack in the tiny Texan
town of Chinquapin, he remained extremely curious until the
end of his life, having intense correspondences with figures such as renowned art critic Meyer Schapiro and sexologist John
Money.
understanding how we begin to compete with this
town's «old
money» and large out
of state investors — notice all
of the high
end apartment complexes being built around campus, I bet those aren't financed by «Mom and Pop Investors.»