$67 Million!!! Orange County Government Center bonding

STEVE SAID: “I know Valley View is a hot topic but Valley View is not a facility that every taxpayer can enjoy,” Neuhaus said.

Not everyone “enjoys” a hospital, but we should have some. Not everyone “enjoys” a Police Station but it is good to have one here and there. Not everyone “enjoys” a Senior Center, but should we get rid of them? How many of you enjoy the airport, golf course? Using the same “logic” we should dispose of them!

When we value a building over the residents of Valley View, we have lost our humanity. Yes, your Auntie does want to see the government center reopened, with the DMV firmly ensconced, so that the businesses in the Village of Goshen can earn a livelihood to feed their families (ugh, that humanity again!), but when the selling of Valley View is presented as the cure-all to the counties financial ills, it makes your Auntie wonder: “Who benefits?”

And now for the practical, presented by Legislator Mike Anagnostakis:

“If indeed we have a $60 million deficit, and I understand we are not going to have this $4.1 million hit us for a couple of years, but we are also not going to have the $5 million of savings from Valley View materialize for a couple of years. So it seems to me that a lot of people might think that we are trading off buildings for Valley View, because at the end of the day a couple of years from now, that $60 million stays at $60 million and if we face 700 or 800 layoffs, if we have 30 or 40 percent tax increases, I think the building, trading off for Valley View, leaves us in the same exact position.”

We all know that the reasons presented for selling Valley View are a load of garbage.

But not everyone “enjoys” honesty.