The Citizens Campaign for Open Village Government has now posted to You Tube two videos clips from the 4/7/14 budget meeting of the Patchogue Village Board of Trustees. In addition full video of the "reorganizational" meeting held prior to the budget meeting and public hearing of that same date is online and the full video of the budget meeting is also online.
To see the full videos please go to our website: www.patchoguevillagecitizens.com.
To see the first video clip, Mayor Pontieri's summary of important aspects of the 2014-15 village budget and reasons for the tax increase click here.
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To see the second video clip, Trustee Tom Ferb describes various potential strategies to raise fees to increase revenues and avoid future tax increases see here.
Members of the public who would like to see a copy of the proposed village budget, the draft copy is now online and this draft was adopted without changes on 4/7/14 please go to the website of the Citizens Campaign web address provided already above. Once on the front page find the "More" tab upper right hand corner, that tab has a drop down menu, click the tab that says "Village Budgets". A PDF document will then be available to be clicked and downloaded.
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Lastly there will be a regularly scheduled meeting of the Patchogue Village Board this Monday at 6 p.m. on 4/14/14. A review of the agenda for the meeting contains one item of interest. This sentence under Trustee Keyes' section of the meeting appears: "Resolution to set garbage rates for condominiums at five hundred dollars per year". There is no other information available at this time to explain this change. Please see the village website to see a copy of the agenda for the meeting for further reference see village website: www.patchoguevillage.org.
Additional clips from the meeting are being published over the next few days. Please see our Facebook page at Patchogue Village Citizens for Open Village Government. Like us if you do and show support for our public informational campaign when you do. Video clips appear first on our Facebook page, in addition join in moderated discussion of village issues and stay connected to other issues reported by the Campaign that appear first on our Facebook page.
