Years ago  I was the event coordinator for The College of Saint Rose.  I would love to know who set this voting day up.  What a mess!  Went after work.  People gotback on the elevator with me and said they were going home an NOT voting.  I did talk one of them into going back upstairs.  They should have used the senior center for this.  The room was jammed.

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At one point in the day a woman fell outside Town Hall and REMS responded to treat her. The town public works department also had to measure the distance between Town Hall and a campaign sign that was placed in a median out front. The verdict: the sign was outside the 100-foot parameter required.

Gadfly place a sign wrong???  she hangs with White Rabbit and Bill the Lizard

GPS, Google maps and hidden markers and mini-metal detector ensure all are just outside the legal limit

RPD and code enforcement have been trying for years, but Gadfly has them on Rule 42

as for me entrance to exit 5 minutes

this being rotterdam who has the blue bookie sheets?

Quoted from TippyCanoe

Gadfly place a sign wrong???  she hangs with White Rabbit and Bill the Lizard

GPS, Google maps and hidden markers and mini-metal detector ensure all are just outside the legal limit

RPD and code enforcement have been trying for years, but Gadfly has them on Rule 42

as for me entrance to exit 5 minutes

this being rotterdam who has the blue bookie sheets?

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   Apparently, they are going to close the doors at 8:00pm.  Anyone inside the voting room will be allowed to vote.  It is projected that by 8:30pm, at the latest, results of the vote will be announced!

Due to rotterdam's present administrations insistence of having ONE polling place, coupled with NO ABSENTEE ballots, left the residents with NO place to park. People were walking blocks just to vote!
!!!
So the cops are actually giving out PARKING TICKETS!!!!!!!!! YUP they are!! Several people saw it with their own eyes and were appalled

So let's get this straight......
One polling place for how many thousands of people?
No absentee ballots for the elderly.
Inadequate parking.
Some waiting in line for over 1/2 hour to vote.
Not enough ballots.
Cops ticketing the residents due to the fault of this administration. These tickets should be ripped up!
Postponed audit.
Does it go out to bid...doesn't it go out to bid?
Where did the ALS money go?

People have never seen such incompetence coming out of rotterdam's town hall!

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The FACT is that I DO pay taxes  income and sales tax DIRECTLY  and .. I contribute significantly to
helping pay the property tax.
You and your ilk continue to make  harassing personal attacks in an attempt at character assassination
because you KNOW that I am right on the issues and you folks are afraid of the fact that I can point
out everyone of your lies and distortions.

You pay income taxes?????   What, on volunteer work at your church?   What, on most of your waking hours sitting on your computer posting on these boards?

Any tax  you do pay is A TEENY WEENY amount compared to real adults who pay income taxes, sales taxes, mortgage recording taxes, town taxes, fire district taxes, highway lighting taxes, election charge taxes, county taxes, taxes on their home phone, taxes on their Nat Grid bills, etc etc etc......all kind of taxes that real adults pay.....real adults who are adults, responsible, stand on their own two  feet instead of living with a mama figure

By the way, DV, can you explain WHY people should pay a tax for an ambulance district when their health insurance pays for ambulance.  Eldelry have medicare and there is next to NOTHING out of pocket.   And we who have health insurance have small co-pays.  And so the question is, let's assume the tax never increased over the next 30 years, and let's say my house is assessed for $175,000 which means my tax would be $17.50 per year.  After 30 years I would have paid $525.  Tell me why it would be better for me to pay $525 in tax when I could have, say, Mohawk, and wind up with only a $35 co-pay.   In order for it to be more financially advantageous to have REMS would mean that in the next 30 years, I would have to have such extreme life threatening emergencies once every other year for the next 30 years.  I have NEVER NEVER needed an ambulance in my life.  My mother needed it ONCE in her 80 years.   My dad NEVER needed it.

You've GOT to be kidding me.  Those tickets should be retracted, immediately.

WTH are they thinking?

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Due to rotterdam's present administrations insistence of having ONE polling place, coupled with NO ABSENTEE ballots, left the residents with NO place to park. People were walking blocks just to vote!
!!!
So the cops are actually giving out PARKING TICKETS!!!!!!!!! YUP they are!! Several people saw it with their own eyes and were appalled

So let's get this straight......
One polling place for how many thousands of people?
No absentee ballots for the elderly.
Inadequate parking.
Some waiting in line for over 1/2 hour to vote.
Not enough ballots.
Cops ticketing the residents due to the fault of this administration. These tickets should be ripped up!
Postponed audit.
Does it go out to bid...doesn't it go out to bid?
Where did the ALS money go?

People have never seen such incompetence coming out of rotterdam's town hall!

Quoted from mikechristine1

By the way, DV, can you explain WHY people should pay a tax for an ambulance district when their health insurance pays for ambulance.  Eldelry have medicare and there is next to NOTHING out of pocket.   And we who have health insurance have small co-pays.  And so the question is, let's assume the tax never increased over the next 30 years, and let's say my house is assessed for $175,000 which means my tax would be $17.50 per year.  After 30 years I would have paid $525.  Tell me why it would be better for me to pay $525 in tax when I could have, say, Mohawk, and wind up with only a $35 co-pay.   In order for it to be more financially advantageous to have REMS would mean that in the next 30 years, I would have to have such extreme life threatening emergencies once every other year for the next 30 years.  I have NEVER NEVER needed an ambulance in my life.  My mother needed it ONCE in her 80 years.   My dad NEVER needed it.

I wonder if you can opt out of ambulance coverage on your health insurance to reduce your premiums.
Hmmm.
/tic

Just received a call from someone at Town Hall with the final vote count.  The referendum to create the ambulance
tax district failed by a vote of 1380 in favor to 2472 opposed.  64%+ of Rotterdam property owners voted
for No New Taxes

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Just received a call from someone at Town Hall with the vote count.  The referendum to create the ambulance
tax district failed by a vote of 1380 in favor to 2472 opposed.  64% of Rotterdam property owners voted
against New Taxes.

The Mohan vote was the same direction, even if its $1 a year more people are not interested in new taxes...  

So now I suppose the town will come up with a RFP and ask for bids??

BTW Brad that Jefferson quote is one of my favorites

Can't wait to see how the proponents backpeddle now

Quoted from 78

Just received a call from someone at Town Hall with the final vote count.  The referendum to create the ambulance
tax district failed by a vote of 1380 in favor to 2472 opposed.  64% of Rotterdam property owners voted
against New Taxes.

Brad -- Thank you for keeping us informed!    And it is so apropos that one of last year's NNTP candidates has announced that Rotterdam residents WILL NOT allow a new taxing district.   I always said that you guys were just a year too early...the voters weren't quite ready for NNTP yet.  They are finally starting to get it!

DV is going to demand a recount.

It appears that former Town Councilman John Mertz was more in tune with the views of the residents that he
represented than those who drove him from office.  Congratulations to John, Brian McGarry and Michael O'Connor,
all of who campaigned on a platform of No New Taxes including the creation of the ambulance tax district.

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Brad -- Thank you for keeping us informed!    And it is so apropos that one of last year's NNTP candidates has announced that Rotterdam residents WILL NOT allow a new taxing district.   I always said that you guys were just a year too early...the voters weren't quite ready for NNTP yet.  They are finally starting to get it!

YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH! If I remember correctly, the reps not only supported it, but they campaigned on it and lost. The dems also supported the taxing district.

The NNTP guys, John Mertz, Mike OConner, Brian McGarry and Brad Littlefield were the ONLY ones who spoke out against this taxing district. Hey guys, looks like the electorate is ready now! 2011 is an election year....hint hint!!