And when you consider the following, why would our county government not consider; 1- using land currently owned by the county for it's offices or 2- consider selling off those properties instead of selling Valley View?
STEVE SAID: “Orange County is such a big land owner and we are renting properties out, we are leasing properties out, we are sitting on empty properties so we are re-canvassing our whole inventory of properties that we have and last week, we did a walk-through of some of the properties we currently own in Newburgh that are currently vacant that we could move our office space to,”
Now? You just realized that?
Here is a general idea of the properties owned by the County (Info available on the county website):
635 properties.
Some of them must be worth something.
The Old County Building at 124 Main St in the Village of Goshen has a full market value of: $2,251,000!
The Surrogates Building at 30 Park Place in same village has a full market value of: $1,360,300!
And this is VERY interesting:
Legal Property Description: 11 DSS/13-WHTHS-QUARRY RD 1-CSR/2-SMN/3-GLN/4-PRY/5-GRND 15-SWR(JES.SWT RD) Property Class: 633 - Aged - home
Address: 1-5 Glenmere Cove Rd has a full market value listed *below.*
And this is just SBL 20-1-10.21-1. There are at least a dozen more SBL's (section block and lot #'s) in regards to the Valley View property. (This does not go with the argument of selling VV to make up the deficit-we still believe that there are plenty of other properties to sell and/or other ways to close the gap- but this is an illustration of WHY so many want to buy it, for much less than the full market value of...wait for it... *$55,333,000*)
FYI the OC jail has a full market value of $75,234,800
And speaking of property records, let's take a look at the Town of Deer Park, where Assemblyman-Elect Karl Brabenec is the current Town Supervisor:
Orange County Holdings, sounds quasi-governmental, doesn't it?
It's not.
over 636 acres in Deer Park alone...
Just FYI:
ReplyDeleteMany of these properties are land with homes on them -- and they are rented out to cronies at below fair market rent ... now someone needs to do a report about that in the newspapers!!
Now this story in the THR paints a whole different picture, but then you have to look at who is providing the info...Daino.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.recordonline.com/article/20141216/NEWS/141219521
County Land Holdings at $17M looks like someone took your advice Auntie, and printed an article but numbers do not jive. All in the eye of the bookkeeper. oops
ReplyDeleteThis would not be the first time that Dain did not utilize information that is readily accessible. Funny, how he would not use the county's own website which is where (as indicated above) Auntie "procured" (excuse the pun) the information.
ReplyDeleteWay to.go.sullivan
ReplyDeleteNice job! Sen Johnny B, really snake eyed ole Larkin and Neuhaus. Maybe you can get them jobs at the casino at the craps table. Oh yeah, don't forget to take care of Allie boy D'amato. Great job Johnny, you screwed them good!!!!!!!!!!! You are now senator for life!! Oh don't forget little Eddie from the first ward and his partner Joe Joe who are gambling aficionados.
ReplyDeleteIt took how many years for a CE to admit this county is land rich. People have been mentioning this for years as a solution, but the talking heads never seem to do anything about it. Talk is cheap.... etc. etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteGo go Auntie you gottem Nuts. Wait till that radio hag on wtbq gets the door like the last 4 did Truatt isnt marryng his locer is WTBQ. Hear FCC is on Truatt CASE.
ReplyDeleteShe on the radio doesn’t like valley view,
ReplyDeleteBecause Steve told her not to!
She gives her on-air dig,
While her partner flips his wig,
The all Neuhaus radio thing to do!
I caught part of Truatt's show the day after the casino decision was announced and Taylor Sterling (or whatever her name is) was totally unhinged, ranting and raving about it and how bad the state government is.
ReplyDeleteLater Truatt read some sort of list by a guy about who shouldn't be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and again she was a bit unhinged, suggesting the author of the list should be killed.
It is a real shame the Chronicle story on the station was spiked. Real loss in terms of freedom of the press.
Caught her spiel the other day or should I say rant on the old folks again. How come she really, really doesn't like the old and infirmed? She loves her dogs, the vets, the poor homeless, Leo Kades Ford, the Porsche people, that old geezer who sings, Nascar, and she especially loves Neuhaus...shouldn't she not be allowed to express her opinion without that saying that is announced before each guest host speaks, or are her opinions the opinions of this cock a mamie radio station. Wonder what the sponsors think of her, but maybe they are all fans of the CE. She really is out of bounds with her comments and all her inside knowledge. Who the heck is this dame anyway, Half the time do not even want to listen, but you do it because you want to hear how stupid she really is. It used to be Truatt's show, now it is definitely not. She took over and he is like Charlie McCarthy... he speaks when he can get a word in and then she insults him. She says the things Steve can't and gets the message out there...Tokyo Taylor
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