Quoted from biaggio

read the facts- feds will pay 75 perccent its the right business decision! Run this town correctly its about the town !! learn from schoharie !! This town from both sides cant afford to get out of their own way - like i said get the hell out of hear old minds will never succeed here !

Federal dollars come from us taxpayers as well as Rotterdam dollars.

You are talking about over a million dollars.

oh well - take care of business

get the feds to help - your gonna end up with them anyway and buffidiot knows no one will build there again so whats he up to . The town will never see tax money from those properties again--Let somone get hurt in one of those buildings and see how ya feel----Why do we continue to put such morons in charge of this town

Quoted from biaggio

get the feds to help - your gonna end up with them anyway and buffidiot knows no one will build there again so whats he up to . The town will never see tax money from those properties again--Let somone get hurt in one of those buildings and see how ya feel----Why do we continue to put such morons in charge of this town

DNA

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Flood buyback plan sinks
Rotterdam sees little interest for program to purchase flood-damaged homes
By John Purcell As of Friday, October 26, 2012 -5:12 p.m.

#ROTTERDAM — As quickly as a buyout program for flood-damaged homes resurfaced, Rotterdam officials have put aside the proposal.

#The Rotterdam Town Board on Wednesday, Oct. 24, voted to not pursue a program to purchase properties severely damaged by floodwaters from Hurricane Irene. Councilman Robert Godlewski was the only board member voting in favor of the buyback proposal that he reintroduced earlier this month. Godlewski proposed tapping $100,000 in additional FEMA funds to purchase dilapidated properties.

#Town Attorney Kate McGuirl said there are several requirements a potential applicant would have to have met. Godlewski had submitted 23 potential properties for the program, with the 2012 tax bills for those properties falling 73.5 percent, or $14,200.

#“I was, I guess, a little bit surprised initially, but once I reviewed the potential 23 houses with the building inspector and the assessor I wasn’t surprised,” McGuirl said. “People have come in and they are either rebuilding or in the process of rebuilding.”

#Supervisor Harry Buffardi said one person inquired about the buyback program, but the property was not eligible.

#The buyback program would see the federal government covering 75 percent of the cost to buy out a home, with the town covering the remainder. Any expenses for razing the property would also be the town’s responsibility.

#What concerned some town officials was any property purchased through the buyout program could never be redeveloped in any way or placed back on the tax rolls.

#“I think the big thing there too is it would pockmark that community from redevelopment forever,” Buffardi said. “I have actually had people from Rotterdam Junction thank me for not supporting (the buyback.)”

#Town Assessor John Macejka Jr. previously expressed reservations about the program since condemned properties could hold value again. Some people have already sold flood-damaged properties at higher prices than the town’s reduced assessment, according to Macejka.

#Buffardi pointed to the town’s recently completed study to redevelop Main Street in Rotterdam Junction and said the buyback would hinder those efforts. McGuirl said vacant properties could hurt the value of surrounding properties, too.

#“This would severely hurt the prospects of redeveloping it,” Buffardi said. “Main Street isn’t a flood plain and if we pockmarked it and made it ineligible for development, then we would have overgrowth in those areas.”

http://www.schenectadyspotlight.com/news/2012/oct/26/flood-buyback-plan-sinks/

of course godlewski did....

here comes ANOTHER FLOOD....

our administration are a bunch of idiots- macejka however is a non resident moron !!!!! what plan are they moving forward with to redevelop main street -they have been against and have put no efforts towards it from the beginning. They talk outtheir asses and dont care at all about the Junction -Please share with me anything they are doing to move those plans forward show me where they have publicly stated how they are supporting and participating in making it all come to fruition - Yor never gonna find it -just a bunch of political BS lol

I trust Bob, more than I trust the rest of the people in charge. Seems like a logical program, therefore we will of course not take advantage of it.

godlewski is the only one who really cares about the town and its residents - The others care about themselves and the friends in the good old rotterdam click-wake up will ya lol

The residents were warned of the friends and family club before the last election and it did no good at all.

Quoted from biaggio

godlewski is the only one who really cares about the town and its residents - The others care about themselves and the friends in the good old rotterdam click-wake up will ya lol

rotterdam has done a great job over a generation of cut and paste in planning via the gumbas and 'bailing out' via
the gumbas....

this town has had no classy comp plan....everything is cookie cutter classless and without style, just so some can
'feel good', get voted in, rub elbows, drink drinks, etc etc.....

I'm all about the community but to cut and paste around town for the gumbas is wrong

Quoted from biaggio

read the facts- feds will pay 75 perccent its the right business decision! Run this town correctly its about the town !! learn from schoharie !! This town from both sides cant afford to get out of their own way - like i said get the hell out of hear old minds will never succeed here !

Actually, there is no guarantee that the Feds will pay 75%.  All the Feds will say is that they MAY - if the property qualifies - pay UP TO 75% ... but there is no guarantee.   And in order for the property to qualify - there are a list of criteria that has to be met and if items in that list are not met then the property doesn't qualify and the town doesn't get reimbursed.

joke

they checked with the capo and he said no

macejka is a friggen liar - he needs to be booted back to guilderland -fat a** just says what hes told to by the buffidiot lol