Happy Hour for Gounardes for Free Childcare?!
Politicians love to send out flyers to the community boasting about what they did.
Last September, Andrew Gounardes sent out a flyer saying that the MTA was giving 8 minute service. (See Below) The MTA gave some trains 8 minute service, but not in Bay Ridge. Gounardes never checked the train service before sending the flyer to the whole community!
Andrew Gounardes probably thought most of you wouldn’t read the flyer since it was September and you were busy!.
Some people did and they called him out. Gounardes said the truth online, but never corrected the mistake in a mailer. (See here)
This year, Andrew Gounardes’ mailer failed to mention that PS 185’s and other public schools in our area were cut by NYS funding. Parents are only finding out now. (Here)
If parents knew, they would have gone to other politicians to ask for help. PS 185 is Councilman Justin Brannan’s alma mater, so surely he would have helped. Brannan had a lot of money because he used it to pay for Summer days at many parks across the district. (See here)
Children who attended afterschool programs at PS 185 for free last year will not be able to attend this year because parents will have to pay $3,300 per child ($6,600 for two children!) Many schools in our area still have free afterschool programs, so why were some removed?
Next week, a group with a Manhattan is hailing Gounardes with a Happy Hour because they want free childcare. The organization doesn’t seem to care that childcare and tutoring were taken away from some families in Bay Ridge.
Why is our community paying such high property taxes, if afterschool programs at some schools in our area were defunded at the state level?
Hugs,
marlene
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