All
Croton residents should watch Joel Gingold expose the “grossly erroneous” cost
estimates used to justify what he calls the “albatross” known as Gouveia
Park—pushed by Croton Dems Trustee Ann Gallelli and fully supported by Trustee
Brian Pugh (who said in January 2015 that the cost/benefit analysis was
“appropriately conservative”). How “grossly erroneous” were the estimates?
Here’s an excerpt from a letter from Joel that we will publish soon: “They
estimated the cost of the driveway and parking area as $12,000. But last night,
the board voted to spend over $218,000 for this same work. A cost overrun of
1,800%, that will chew up over 20% of the endowment and we haven’t even looked
at the costs of bringing the house up to code.” See the short video of Joel
here: http://ec4.cc/jfd3d69ca
First off - UNBELIEVABLE and thank you Joel !!!
ReplyDeleteSecond it is my belief that although one might rent a home, an apartment or a room in this or any town for that matter, unless you get your checkbook out 4 times a year and pay taxes then you should not be able to represent the taxpayers as a village board member.
Wow. And are there any solid plans yet for how to use the park? As of last fall there weren't, per Ms Gallelli herself when I asked her during one of the open house park tours with the shuttle bus.
ReplyDeleteKnew it was bad but not THIS bad.
ReplyDeleteFor an update about this boondoggle deal, link to:
ReplyDeletehttp://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2018/03/highlights-only-3118-gouveia-gazette.html