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Top Heavy Spending
After numerous questionable hiring practices from the County Executive. Legislators passed a law to add a fourth deputy county executive for economic development and planning with no discussion. The county executive is required to hold a public hearing on new laws. I attended this public hearing and here are my…
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Comments on County 2025 Budget
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It’s not too late, Cancel the Aquarium!
Sent to Onondaga County Legislators on March 26, 2024 We have now seen the reports that what the feasibility study said could work here is not financially feasible due to rising costs and has to be scaled back. This is concerning as the county’s very own feasibility study stated: “A smaller…
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Comments Against County Lawsuit
At the February session of the Onondaga County Legislature, there was a resolution that appeared the day before on their agenda that gave the County Executive $100,000 of taxpayer money to sue the state over moving elections to even years to increase turnout. I attended the legislative session and gave…
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County Makes Citizens Fish for Information
For the amount of taxpayer money to be spent on the county executive’s vanity aquarium, taxpayers are being kept in the dark on updates. Where are the designs for the aquarium that were to be released this summer? Where are the updated project costs? In June, Republican legislators approved a…
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Sales Tax Comes from Residents, not Tourists
The math doesn’t add up to me. Onondaga County Executive McMahon wants to spend $85 million on an aquarium with taxpayer money. They estimate it could generate $796,000 in annual sales and hotel tax revenue, which would be 0.2% of the sales tax we already generate. If the aquarium generates $796,000 in…
