|
We're Family Rated |
|
|
|
|
News
May
09
2008
|
Dan Veaner
|
|
Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Now that the Lansing Board Of Education has approved a $22,838,912 budget for the 2008-2009 school year, Superintendent Stephen Grimm is taking it to the public to explain a budget that includes over $1 million of cuts and how it will impact the community, the schools, and the kids. This week he reached out by speaking to local groups such as the Lansing Lions, and reaching out to newspapers including this publication, as well as mailing a copy of the budget to all district residents and holding a budget hearing at Lansing High School last night. He hopes this outreach will convince the public to vote to pass the budget on May 20.
Former Superintendent Raymond Buckley and current Superintendent
Stephen Grimm. Grimm went to Monday's Lansing Lion's Club meeting
to fill them in on budget cuts and how they will impact taxpayers.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
May
09
2008
|
Dan Veaner
|
|
Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 Ed LaVigne at School Board last Monday
The Lansing Community Council has been in existance for many years, and
for many of those years has acted as a funnel for United Way monies
that help fund the Lansing Recreation Program, Lansing Youth Services,
Lansing Older Adult Program (LOAP), and the Lansing Drop-in Center, as
well as providing relief for people in need. Two years ago the group
was revitalized with the next generation of members, who wanted to
continue the funding to these groups, but also to do more. The group
has 8 members with three serving on its board of directors.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
May
09
2008
|
Dan Veaner
|
|
Friday, 09 May 2008 |
Lansing Fire Commissioners say that a new fire station planned for the Village of Lansing will be put on hold for now. The Oakcrest Road Station 5 was built in 1972, and is now too small for the new generation of fire trucks and equipment. Fire District officials have been negotiating with the Village to decide where a new, larger firehouse could be built. But the estimated cost of nearly $4 million to build the new station is almost twice as much as estimated.
"We're going to pursue the addition at Central Station, because more of the members of the Fire Department are here," says Commissioner Jeff Walters. "There is only one member down at Station 5. So instead of burdening tax dollars to buy land and build a new station we're going to capitalize on what we have and keep the cost down."
Station 5 in the Village of Lansing
|
|
Read more...
|
|
May
09
2008
|
Marcia E. Lynch
|
|
Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 Legislature Sets 3 Percent Tax Levy Increase Goal for 2009
The Legislature tonight took the first step toward preparation of a 2009 Tompkins County budget, establishing a financial goal of a maximum tax levy increase in 2009 of 3 percent. The 3 percent levy increase goal was approved by a vote of 11-4, with Legislators Martha Robertson, Greg Stevenson, Dooley Kiefer and Tyke Randall voting no.
A 3 percent increase in the tax levy (the total amount of property tax revenue needed to balance the budget) would carry with it a projected 11.2 percent decrease in the tax rate (the amount paid by taxpayers per thousand dollars assessed property value), a rate of $6.09 per thousand. The tax rate would decrease because Tompkins County assessed property values, as documented in the 2008 revaluation, have increased by 16 percent compared to last year's level. Achieving the 3 percent goal will require a nearly $2 million decrease in locally controlled spending. The Legislature also resolved to continue the process of stabilizing the level of tax levy change during 2009. The resolution notes that the current rate of inflation is just under 4 percent.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
May
09
2008
|
Marcia E. Lynch
|
|
Friday, 09 May 2008 |
After more than an hour of discussion, the County’s Health and Human Services Committee today declined to advance a proposal that called for the County to discontinue Health Department sponsorship of the federal Women/Infants/Children (WIC) Nutrition Program.
The proposal, submitted by the Health Department, requested Legislature authorization for the department not to seek renewal of the WIC program, which the department has operated since 1980, by not responding to the Request for Applications (RFA) for the next five-year funding cycle, to be issued by the New York State Department of Health.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
May
09
2008
|
Marion Read
|
|
Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Michael A. Arcuri (D-Utica) voted with a bipartisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives today to send the President landmark legislation prohibiting health insurance companies and employers from discriminating against people on the basis of genetic tests.
“Scientists have made great strides to fight diseases and help Americans live longer and healthier lives, but with this new knowledge also comes the responsibility to protect individuals from inequality,” Arcuri said. “This important legislation will prohibit health insurance companies and employers from misusing new information about the fundamental building blocks of who we are.”
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
Events Calendar |
 |
May 2008 |
 |
|
|
|
|
Post New Event