Quoted from CICERO

Good point.  If there is an extra 185 residents on Hamburg Street, it may justify CDTA to have a route on Hamburg.  That is a good working together works solution.  They view that as a win win for the people.

I think these guys should be put on Guilderland Ave, somewhere in the vicnity of someone we know

Out by the railroad tracks, a remote area.

perfect. Working together works.

Quoted from Gemini

If you think about it, the people that are there for the checks, will move to where they dont have to walk very far or pay for a ride.  That would explain why Bellevue is getting run down.  If you moved the office to another location, Im sure the same thing will happen there too.  

that was our discussion from the beginning......move the feed bucket and everyone will follow....it's like a petting zoo....

I think what angered me the most was about 15 years or so ago, my sister moved here from Colorado after escaping an abusive relationship.  I was living in a one bedroom apartment and my landlord gave her a couple of weeks to be allowed to stay til she could find somewhere else.  She was able to get a part time job and went to welfare for a little help getting into an apartment and some food stamps.  Nothing permanent.  Just some temporary help.  They told her to go to the shelter.  I was looking around the room at the ones that were getting checks and they looked to be pretty well off.  Not sure why they were there.  Obviously NOT in need.  But yet they got the cash and my sister was told to hit the streets.  I dont get it.  The people that do need the help dont get it.  

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Moving all YMCA’s tenants to Broadway building a mistake

    The Jan. 12 Gazette reported on the Galesi Group filing an application with the city Planning Commission to move ahead with resurrecting the vacant industrial building next to 797 Broadway as a home for men living at the Schenectady YMCA.
    While there is an urgency to fi nd a place for the 180 or so men at the YMCA, putting all of them in a single building at this location may not be the best solution.
    Many of them have a history of mental illness and/or substance addiction, and they are in the YMCA because there weren’t sufficient other places in Schenectady for them to live.
    Some will tell you they like it at the YMCA, while others do not. They are glad to have a place to live and the care has been good at the YMCA. But many of them would prefer to have their own apartment or live with others in a residential neighborhood, where they can participate more fully in the activities of the community.
This is the challenge facing Schenectady — to fi nd decent and affordable housing in the community for as many of them as want to live outside the YMCA and who will benefi t from it.
I think there should be a community discussion, with leaders able to hear more points of view about a living place for the men, before planning goes ahead on that one big building on Broadway.
This is really the bone of contention. That building may be renewable, as ugly as it looks. But it’s a quick solution to get the men out of downtown. It’s extremely costly — the bill is estimated at $18 million, or about $100,000 per resident who would move in there.
I don’t think it’s the kind of home we want to create for them and at great taxpayer expense. Nor should Schenectady citizens feel proud of this.

ROY NEVILLE
Schenectady
The writer is treasurer of NAMI Schenectady (National Alliance on Mental Illness of Schenectady).

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r02603&AppName=1

Quoted from senders

that was our discussion from the beginning......move the feed bucket and everyone will follow....it's like a petting zoo....

This trial balloon hasn't been popped YET? The most stunad idea to come from the DEM morons in the past 2 months.

The YMCA residents should stay right where they are. Revamp the already existing building. They will be close to downtown, where businesses and jobs are flourishing. (tic)

This will allow the mentally ill and the substance abuser to ease their way back into society. And what better place but flourishing downtown where residential housing/apts are being proposed.

They are located close to SCCC where they could re-educate themselves...perhaps? And being right over the bridge to scotia, perhaps scotia/glenville can also find jobs and housing for these folks....no?

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The YMCA residents should stay right where they are. Revamp the already existing building. They will be close to downtown, where businesses and jobs are flourishing. (tic)

This will allow the mentally ill and the substance abuser to ease their way back into society. And what better place but flourishing downtown where residential housing/apts are being proposed.

They are located close to SCCC where they could re-educate themselves...perhaps? And being right over the bridge to scotia, perhaps scotia/glenville can also find jobs and housing for these folks....no?

bumble-you really should go to the council meeting and say just what you wrote here- its excellent : )  

Well there is that new apartment building coming where the diner will be torn down.   Id feel sorry for the Scotia townspeople.  They would all be hanging around the park then.  

The new YMCA housing should be moved to the long abandoned Grand Union in Niskayuna. It's about time these Nisky DEM morons put something near their property. Sure the DEM 3 stooges Finn, Gordon & Landslide Savage would approve-lol. For once practice what you preach?

     BTW, Landslide Savage has now cleansed the Library Bored of any and all opponents to her reich. This follows the County Building, Metrograft and CIDA. The sorest of sore losers.

  

Quoted from benny salami

The new YMCA housing should be moved to the long abandoned Grand Union in Niskayuna. It's about time these Nisky DEM morons put something near their property. Sure the DEM 3 stooges Finn, Gordon & Landslide Savage would approve-lol. For once practice what you preach?

     BTW, Landslide Savage has now cleansed the Library Bored of any and all opponents to her reich. This follows the County Building, Metrograft and CIDA. The sorest of sore losers.

  

really? interesting....

Read the letter to the editor in Saturday's Gazetto. Landslide is going nuts. A complete purge of critics from all County boards and commissions. Everyone get in goose step to the New County Order.

the library board is made up of stuffy folks that haven't changed since the 50's along with 'perverts'.....

Savage's going to make sure it isn't all white folks "of a certain age"-ROTFLMAO!! She replaces DEM fossils with older DEM fossils. One Party, One County, One Landslide!