Maybe the NYS Comptroller can help us?

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yes - I want to get into it. You dont live here - you dont pay taxes here - you dont own property here

 

you are obsessed with the mayor - you aer obsessed with the city - a city you dont live in

 

Why?

 

Because he and his paymasters the Kradjians got stomped in the 2005 election, in which they spent a record amount of money to come in last place. They believed they were entitled to win, because of who they are.

 

When they got crushed and fully rejected, that sense of entitlement turned into a vendetta against those they believed to be responsible for the savage beating they took.

 

But they really had it coming. The way they now demand a discount on water, when they are among the worst scofflaws on water bill payment, shows they had it coming, and had no business thinking they were entitled to just walk in and run city government.

 

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Why are the supposed late fees an issue if the City of Binghamton is prepaying them to the Water Fund and then pocketing the Broome County money for the water payments?

 

 

This was sent to the NYS Comptroller with the bogus late fee article from the PSB Tarik Abdelazim:

 

 

"The late fees are not the problem.

 

It is all a smoke screen for Ryan and Abdelazim to hide behind..

 

Calvin Stovall, Executive Editor of this newspaper, told me last Friday The City of Binghamton General Fund prepays the delinquent water bills from the General Fund to the Water Fund and then the General Fund pockets all the Broome County check for the delinquent accounts. That would include the late fees and penalties as well. (read that again so it is clear, the City makes money by loaning the water payments to the Water fund, Broome County helps them)

 

Isn't that true, Calvin? Why won’t you print it?

 

The problem is the City drawing down on the Water Fund with bogus charges to the tune of $700,000per year every year. They will take more if there is more in the Water Fund. That is why Matthew T. Ryan wants to raise rates.

 

The City of Binghamton rips the Water fund off for charges like $5000 in fees to the Corporate Council Ken Franks’ time (the City of Binghamton Corporate Council who lives in Vestal) , or $50,000 for computer fees, more for computer upgrades when those are being paid for with a capital improve bond and excessive rent. The Water fund is a cash cow Ryan and Abdelazim are milking dry to cover up their waste and mismanagement elsewhere. It they didn’t raid the Water Fund they would have to raise taxes even more than they have and will.

 

The late payments have nothing to do with the 81% increase, the eighty-one percent inncrease the Press & Sun-Bulletin never mentions out loud ($1.65 Dec. ’06 to $2.99 Au, ’09).

 

We are not getting the real story. Yu cannot believe this newspaper. You cannot believe Abdelazim and Ryan (The Regency Hotel deal proved that)

 

NYS Comptroller DiNapoli should audit the City 's books and those of the Water Department. He has already been requested to do so. The Press & Sun-Bulletin will not report that even though they have the request). Maybe he can explain why we are told there are a only $300,000 deficit and a$100,000 increase in chemical costs but we are facing a rate increase that will net a surplus of $2,3000,000 (two million, three hundred thousand) each and every year.

 

It took three years to strip the water fund (most of that thanks to Ryan), why do we have to rebuild it in less than one year?

 

Do you pay off your mortgage in less than a year?

 

What aren't Abdelazim and Matthew T. Ryan not telling us?

 

Last week we heard City Comptroller Jon Cox was going to study other towns. Will he only use the worse policies and highest rates he finds or the best policy and reasonable rates?

Here are a few:

 

Endicott $35 $1.21 $0.88 discount for greater consumption. ($0.88 compared to Binghamton’s proposed $2.99, are you feeling the pain yet????)

 

Elmira $3.07, $2.23 $.84 less than their residential rates a 27% discount

 

Rochester $0.97 $0.83 discount for greater consumption

 

Watertown $1.52

 

Utica (Mohawk Valley Water Authority) $2.21~ $2.24~ $1.41~*

discount for greater consumption

 

Cortland $2.00 $1.30 $1.50

 

Johnson City $20.00 $1.68 $1.55 discount for greater consumption

 

Syracuse $2.02

 

Conklin $2.55 discount for greater consumption

 

Mayor Matthew T. Ryan likes to tell us Binghamton is open for business. Is it really?

 

Let's see if Binghamton will then follow the example of about half the other water departments in New York State that offer institutional and industrial rate reductions. After all, isn't decreasing consumption said to be part of the problem?

 

Will the City of Binghamton charge more for the direct water sales at the plant to tanker trucks, they're said to be giving away that water fro next to nothing. Then there is the sweet deal the asphalt company has locked in for 20 years.

 

Sure people are asking about and worried about the late payments, that’s only because nobody, certainly not this newspaper of the Mayor, are giving them the real story.

 

Demand they tell you the truth."