HomeMy WebLinkAboutCatherine Stein Statement-Budget on Deer.PDFStatemenf at CH BoT mtg, Nov.9,201
by Catherine Stein
Resident of Cayuga Heights, Ithaca, Ny
At the Village Board of Trustees meetin
$275,000 thar is slated in the draft
killing program. Ihat draft budset is
The monies refe.rred to have also bee
August z4'n, zoo,g, in which trustee
the budget was to go to ,,The phD fi
"and trends and all that.,,
After I asked about the $275,000 clearly
the unusual move of responding to my s
dismiss my query abour the $275,000
"I'M NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND MS
THIS POINT NO PROGRAM HAS B
money in the budget at this point in time
by the board for anything related to deer
While it is a relief to know that the bud
brush my question aside as irrelevant si
FORMERLY) app,roved by a vote of the
budget is voted on, there will be no
about this expendirture to be funded
consecutive years, will at that point be de
asking for an explernation.
So, what we have lo work with here,
proposed budget that has been put forth
deer issue in Cayul;a Heights. And the r
quafler of the $lm dollar budget, to pay f
A proposed budget represents the basis
will become. In other words, the prop
by saying the proposed budget hasn,i
a catch 22 situation -- that is, we cannot
simply been proposred... but once it is
not change because it has already been
Therefore,I am stating that now is the ti
the proposed budget, before it gets approv
impact this deer-killing program wili have
about how the monr;y in the budget will
Specifically, they nLust understand that t
(>t z
extremely high taxes due solely to the
on September 13,20I0,I asked for a clarification of the
plan for vaguely described duties related to the deer-
ically available and has been described in local papers.
publicly d-iscussefl at a village board meeting on
Andolina explaiilained that the "$5o,ooo a year" in
Cornell" who dols the modeling and the tracking
ineated in the prgposed budget, Mayor Supron macle
tements made duripg the privilege of the Floor to
ted in the proposgd budget. She said:
STEIN'S COMMEI EIN',S COMM$NTS ABOUT THE BUDGET...,,\T
APPROVED BY THE BOARD... SO the only
rery tentative. So there's been no S275 00o annrnv.rlvery tentative. So 's been no $275,000 approved
has not yet been approved by the whole board, to
y because no budget has been FORMALLy (or
illage board doesnlt make any sense because once thr:
for the public to change it. Therefore, the decisions
ha5Vo tax increase on each and every residentfor 1Cl
'acto. Consequentll/, there would be little use in my
afinal approval iS made by the whole board. is the
the members of thp committee assigned to address the
budget very clearly allocates $275,000. over a
vaguely worded services.
what a final budget; after approval of the full board,
$275,000 expenditure cannot be swept under the rug
approved by the whole board. 'Io suggest this creates
the $275,000 dollars allocated because it has
, we can discuss it as much as we want, but it will
ed.
that we MUST question the allocation of money in
so that members oJ the public can understand the
rn their future taxes, and get answers to their questions
used.
r taxes will see a 57o increase on top of their already
rsed deer killing program.