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YOUR TAX DOLLARS

So let me get this straight. The current town board, which is supposed to be watching our tax dollars, has spent over $8000 so far this year for an attorney to help the new members of the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) become functional and has now decided to spend an additional $18 an hour to have a secretary perform the same function at ZBA meetings that the previous ZBA did at no cost to the town. 

DONATIONS

Please, if you can, help me help our community.  Send any political contributions to: 
Voters for Howard Harris
PO Box 31
Bearsville NY 12409

As usual I will be at Catskill Mountain Pizza  Tuesday at about 5:30 and don’t forget to visit 

LOST FUNDING ?

Governor Cuomo has established a 100 million dollar, yes that is correct 100 MILLION DOLLARS, in competitive grants as part of the Cleaner, Greener Communities Program. Have the officials of this town done anything to get any of the grant money, and if so why wasn't the public, us, made aware of this. What happened to keeping the public informed?   

MY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH - REPUBLICAN PARTY NONIMATION

For those of you who don’t know me I have been in Woodstock for over 20 years and on the Zoning Board of Appeals for 15 years, the last 8 as chairman. We were a team of volunteers dedicated to protecting the town and its property values. Not being your typical candidate I am not going to stand up here and tell you what I think you want to hear. What I am going to do is stand up here and listen to what you have to say. You are the town; you are the community which I hope to serve. 

Thanks again for your support

HELP ME,HELP YOU

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WOODSTOCK WATER TREATMENT PLANT - REED BED

I received the following email this week.   

“Mike Kutcher (father of Gary Kutcher, currently running for the town board), and Mary Burke wrote a grant application to the NYS DEC for a reed bed, 15 years ago.  Mike had read about reed beds and how they worked, and he had gone down to Highland to observe the “working reed bed” at an apple orchard down there.  That orchard used it to absorb the residues from their cider-making process.  I believe there was a vineyard in that area that also incorporated a reed bed to absorb the residues from their wine making operation.  Mike and Mary actually drove to the DEC headquarters in Tarrytown and hand-delivered that grant request and were “assured” that it was complete and stood a good chance of receiving some grant money.  A short time later the Town was advised that the proposal had not gotten any money that year, but that it would be “kept on file for the following year’s grants fund requests”.  Why that wasn’t pursued by the Town Board that following year, or any other year until recently, is the question.   Mike Kutcher did all the preliminary research and then he got Mary Burke involved in helping him with writing the grant proposal.” 

How many Town Board administrations have there been since then? How many members of the current Town Board were a part of those administrations?  At least two, Wilber and McKenna we need a change; let us finally “GET IT DONE”. Vote For Me, For You.