Westchester, Wastechester?
Rethinking Westchester Government, the organization formed by Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner and Yonkers Councilmember Joan Gronowski, launches its website tomorrow. The group hopes the site will serve as an educational tool showing how Westchester County can live without Westchester County government.
RethinkingWestchesterGov.com will detail the experiences of Connecticut and Rhode Island, which abolished county government, and Masschussets, which adopted legislation that’s resulted in more than a dozen counties disbanding there. The committee maintains that the absence of county government conrtibutes to lower overall taxes in those states.
Also on the website will be “Wastechester,” which Feiner said will be a regular feature presenting examples of county government waste. The committee plans to unveil the website at a 7:30 p.m. meeting tomorrow at the Women’s Club on 305 Ridgeway Avenue, White Plains. The meeting is the group’s second major meeting for the public, Gronowski said.
Though Feiner and Gronowski are Democrats, Rethinking Westchester Government describes itself as nonpartisan. County Executive Andrew Spano is a Democrat and Democrats dominate the county Baord of Legislators.
The aim of the organization and the website, Feiner said, “is not to be funny or angry, but to offer careful analysis” all with the goal of answering the question “can we do better.”
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What a joke, a real estate agent with no homes to sell, declares Westchester Government to be a waste of taxpayer dollars while promoting the benefits of tiny over funded school districts and provincial little towns and duplicative villages. Spano is a joke but Wastechester is a fraud
spano is yesterday..that is the problem ..his time has come
and gone..I have a feeling that the democrats understand this but feel he is unbeatable..I on the other hand believe
that there is blood in the streets in terms of the economic
meltdown..and that having multiple body guards.. and a public relations staff for a county which claims that 85%
of the money it spends is state mandated will be viewed
by voters as a compete waste…one manager could administer
the whole thing…and cut unnecessary fat at the same time
why do we need a board of legislators with guys like bill
ryan to spend money that is mandated by the state…
the jails, the county police and the welfare system needs
an administrator not layers of elected officials…
so cut the county beaurocracy..and at the same time
eliminate duplicative services in the towns and villages