Touting their own horns, the Village of Elmsford, a long time model of efficiency, innovation and character, issued a press release that they were recently awarded second place by the New York State Conference of Mayors and the Empire State Report magazine for Public Management & Administration Category of the 24th Annual Local Government Achievement Award Program. The Conference of Mayors represents 590 cities and Villages in New York State, since 1910.
Five Villages within the Town of Greenburgh, comprise the Consortium of Villages. They are Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Hastings, and Irvington. They meet almost monthly and through their joint efforts have saved their respective villages money and improved services to their residents. They share services by sharing equipment, personnel, and resources, eliminating the need of each village to have to spend money unnecessarily. This is the sterling example of how the consolidation idea should be implemented, used and fostered. They didn't call press conferences, do studies or pander pros and cons. They all got together, discussed what they might be able to do and just did it. The Town of Greenburgh has resisted this. Why?
The Consortium of Villages has repeatedly saved their residents money through combined bidding and purchasing. We recall Democratic County Legislator Alfreda Williams stating that if the Villages purchased police vehicles with the Town of Greenburgh, they might be able to get a better price through volume discounting. Huh? Police vehicles are purchased through state bid which precludes volume discounts. As the 13 year Greenburgh Town Clerk, she wasn't even aware of a consortium. Might this be why The Paul shunned her and brought in Judith Belville? No matter. She's moved up to the County level where The Paul wants to do away with County government. Wait a minute...
With seven communities purchasing as one, the Villages have been able to save about $500,000 in the last two years. This is no small accomplishment and is one of the obvious reasons this award should be recognized and celebrated. ABG congratulates the Village of Elmsford, their trustees and their employees for a job well-done! We also salute all the Villages for putting their residents first, their egos aside and doing what others only pontificate. Well done!
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Sleepy Hollow is NOT one of the six villages in the Town of Greenburgh. Sleepy Hollow is in the neighboring Town of Mount Pleasant. The Village of Tarrytown, however, IS one of Greenburgh's six villages.
ReplyDeleteI'm no defender of Prince Paul. His time has long passed. By why the pandering to antiquated, byzantine, wasteful village governments? Keep your quaint identities like hamlet known as Hartsdale, but please be serious and admit that consolidation - if properly managed by serious people - will save everyone lots in the long run, except of course your friends who would lose their redundant jobs in the libraries, police forces, school administrations etc.
ReplyDeleteVillage governments exist and more properly represent their constituents, keeping their residents best interests in mind. It IS worth mentioning and showing that somewhere in this Greenburgh hell-hole there are good people doing the right thing for it's people. Feiner hasn't lowered anything! He routinely panders to every group, cause and phony issue instead of helping Greenburgh residents have lower taxes, and less subsidized housing. He placed a rubber-stamp Board as his henchman and they do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Juettner and Sheehan cut the deal to go along with him to get reelected. At least Brown finally stopped drinking the Feiner Kool-Aid. It's so sad.
ReplyDeleteABG regrets the error of inclusion for the Village of Sleepy Hollow and has corrected the post accordingly.
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