THE THINGS THEY SAY

Last week, the Physical Services committee voted to reduce the expenditure of the repairs to the County owned properties from $12.1 million to $9.5 million.

In your initial look at the article in the on line newspaper, you would think that the renovation costs of  the county buildings are to be reduced. That’s good, we say, since most of our nieces and nephews are disgusted at the expense of it, especially because of the horrible state in which we find the county. (What was it? a $60 million deficit?) And especially since the County Executive is trying to ram down our throats the mistaken belief that the sale of Valley View would solve this problem. 

But it is not what it seems.        

The Chairwoman of the Physical Services committee, Katie Bonelli, talks of reducing the budget for renovations because the repairs to the Surrogate Court Bldg. would not occur for a while.

Katie said: “In looking at the cost and when we would actually get to do the Surrogate Court which is out on Park Place, we wouldn’t be getting to that for at least two years. So, we’ve taken that estimate of cost and we’ve taken it out of this particular resolution.”

This is not reducing the amount to be spend but merely delaying part of the expenditure.

The voters in Orange County must LOVE to be fooled by these politicians.

After all, they keep inviting them back to do so again and again.

      

 What fun!!! Fool me again, please! What will they do next, these little dickens? Don't worry, you have my vote! Please, Sir, may I have some more?

On another note, will our legislature correct something, while apparently small, that illustrates a total lack of knowledge regarding our history: the Orange County logo?

  

  How many orange trees are growing in Orange County? While our counterparts in California and Florida are aptly named after this healthful tree, the Orange County NY name comes from something called land grants by someone named William of Orange.

And orange trees were not named after him.