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Wayne W. Calder Age: 66 Occupation: Rotterdam Police Department (Ret) Residence: Rotterdam Political Affiliation: Democrat
Biography/Introduction: A Vietnam Veteran, served in the U.S. Navy. Married my wife Bobbi and moved to Rotterdam in 1967. We have two children and five grandchildren. A communicant of St. Paul the Apostle Church, I enjoy playing golf and pickleball. Appointed to Rotterdam P.D. in 1971, Youth Services 1979, and Detective 1984. I served as an Investigator with the DEA Narcotics Division, and upon returning was promoted to Lieutenant in the Detective Division. I served as Deputy Police Chief until retiring in 2001. I volunteered with the Carman F.D. and Rotterdam Little League, and served with the Schenectady County Traffic Safety Board, the Rotterdam PBA, the Northeast Police Chiefs, and New York State Chiefs of Police Associations. I was elected to the Mohonasen School Board for a three year term ending in 2004, and now work part-time for Mohonasen. I am the endorsed Democratic, Conservative, Independent and Working Families Party candidate.
Why do you want to sit on the Town Board? Our Town faces serious problems. My ability to work with others to find solutions and my experience in government are attributes I bring to the Board. I was told that success in public service comes from listening to the people and I am a good listener.
Do you think the Town Board of Rotterdam is dysfunctional? If so, how do you plan to fix it? The Town Board comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, hard working and strong willed individuals from the fields of business, education, engineering, and law. I would harness this energy and focus on what unites us instead of what divides us, for the common good of our Town.
How do you plan to deal with Rotterdam’s current budget? Municipalities face problems with increasing expenses and declining revenues. The people do not want more taxes yet they do not want to lose any services. Cutting costs and reducing taxes by eliminating duplication and sharing services between municipalities is a concept whose time has come.
How would you promote economic development in Rotterdam? We realize future success by using all resources, private and public, to build a commercial tax base creating jobs. You outline goals and objectives, involve people with experience and ideas, then formulate and adopt a plan, creating partnerships that make it a success. We all benefit.
Additional comments: I readily accept the challenges we face and will bring new ideas to the Town Board. There are services we provide in Town today that we can do less expensively. We need to identify those functions, determine what those services costs our residents and then explore partnerships with others that allow us to maintain those services and reduce associated costs. Many such opportunities exist today in the areas of composting, sewage treatment, highway services, prescription drug programs, and assessments to name a few. We need to maximize new revenue streams. One such revenue stream alone would provide an estimated additional $150,000 in annual tax relief to our residents just by allowing ambulance services to bill insurance companies for the services being provided by our police department paramedics. These opportunities shouldn’t be overlooked and will receive my prompt attention should they choose me as their Town Board member.
Who is Wayne Calder? The guy that will obliterate chris tomaselli!!!!
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Do you think the Town Board of Rotterdam is dysfunctional? If so, how do you plan to fix it? The Town Board comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, hard working and strong willed individuals from the fields of business, education, engineering, and law. I would harness this energy and focus on what unites us instead of what divides us, for the common good of our Town.
Wayne W. Calder Age: 66 Occupation: Rotterdam Police Department (Ret) Residence: Rotterdam Political Affiliation: Democrat
Biography/Introduction: A Vietnam Veteran, served in the U.S. Navy. Married my wife Bobbi and moved to Rotterdam in 1967. We have two children and five grandchildren. A communicant of St. Paul the Apostle Church, I enjoy playing golf and pickleball. Appointed to Rotterdam P.D. in 1971, Youth Services 1979, and Detective 1984. I served as an Investigator with the DEA Narcotics Division, and upon returning was promoted to Lieutenant in the Detective Division. I served as Deputy Police Chief until retiring in 2001. I volunteered with the Carman F.D. and Rotterdam Little League, and served with the Schenectady County Traffic Safety Board, the Rotterdam PBA, the Northeast Police Chiefs, and New York State Chiefs of Police Associations. I was elected to the Mohonasen School Board for a three year term ending in 2004, and now work part-time for Mohonasen. I am the endorsed Democratic, Conservative, Independent and Working Families Party candidate.
Why do you want to sit on the Town Board? Our Town faces serious problems. My ability to work with others to find solutions and my experience in government are attributes I bring to the Board. I was told that success in public service comes from listening to the people and I am a good listener.
Do you think the Town Board of Rotterdam is dysfunctional? If so, how do you plan to fix it? The Town Board comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, hard working and strong willed individuals from the fields of business, education, engineering, and law. I would harness this energy and focus on what unites us instead of what divides us, for the common good of our Town.
How do you plan to deal with Rotterdam’s current budget? Municipalities face problems with increasing expenses and declining revenues. The people do not want more taxes yet they do not want to lose any services. Cutting costs and reducing taxes by eliminating duplication and sharing services between municipalities is a concept whose time has come.
How would you promote economic development in Rotterdam? We realize future success by using all resources, private and public, to build a commercial tax base creating jobs. You outline goals and objectives, involve people with experience and ideas, then formulate and adopt a plan, creating partnerships that make it a success. We all benefit.
Additional comments: I readily accept the challenges we face and will bring new ideas to the Town Board. There are services we provide in Town today that we can do less expensively. We need to identify those functions, determine what those services costs our residents and then explore partnerships with others that allow us to maintain those services and reduce associated costs. Many such opportunities exist today in the areas of composting, sewage treatment, highway services, prescription drug programs, and assessments to name a few. We need to maximize new revenue streams. One such revenue stream alone would provide an estimated additional $150,000 in annual tax relief to our residents just by allowing ambulance services to bill insurance companies for the services being provided by our police department paramedics. These opportunities shouldn’t be overlooked and will receive my prompt attention should they choose me as their Town Board member.
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I'd say Wayne is doing a hell of a job with what he's dealing with!
Were YOU one of the people who lost their job?
How do you feel about putting your money on him now?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
How do you feel about putting your money on him now?
Again...........all for raises!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
He is a retired police officer and we will be lucky to have him on the board. There are many of us who remember him from when we came to Rotterdam. He is smart, knows the town and its antics and has served our community well for many years. He is from Colonie and one of the brighter cops Rotterdam has ever had in place. I believe he will win.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....an wonder what the feeling is 4 years later?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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