Leaders Fight Plans to Make Them Pay for Police Protection
(Erie County, NY, June 9, 2006) - - Town and Village leaders from across Erie County are fighting plans to make them pay for police protection. Grand Island received a payment request from the county for the cost of sheriff’s road patrol services for three years.The town’s payments start at 301 thousand dollars and triple to 903 thousand dollars by 2009.
Town Supervisor Peter McMahon says his people shouldn’t have to pay.
County leaders say they may cut patrol services to towns and villages that don’t pay.
Why is it that they are trying to force us to pay for Sheriff patrols that we already pay for? They are just trying to suck more money out of our pockets.
I will be doing more digging in to this right now.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI am confused - the “tax revolt” folks cry for smaller government and cuts to the county budget - then when the county legislature does make moves such as this, which is pursuant to the four year plan you cry foul.
Which is it?
There will be no cuts to the county budget, that is the problem. The taxes we pay already cover the road patrols, why should we pay twice?
The Sheriffs are the only state mandated road patrols. This is just a move by Giambra and the legislature to get more money into their hands by making us pay again.
If they were actually going to cut county taxes by charging the individual towns and villages, I would be all for it, they’re not.
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