Wear Boots for This Meeting with Gounardes
If you are attending this meeting on March 4th and want to hear about Property Tax Reform – please wear your boots!
Senator Gounardes and Senator Benjamin said they were waiting for Mayor de Blasio’s Property Tax Commission before they could do anything. Their response to the Property Tax Commission results says Gounardes is clueless about his area.
Instead of adjusting that rate for everyone who has been overpaying taxes, Senator Gounardes has alternate plans to help his friends – rather than the whole community. Gounardes appeared on Channel 1 News to explain the bill (See here) It will now be based on your income. Why can’t Gounardes correct the system by lowering the tax rate?
Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Albany and apparently told legislators not to. Senator Gounardes forgot to include that in his February Newsletter. In fact, the February newsletter doesn’t even mention the word property tax. Here you can see the Mayor telling them not to cap the system. Gounardes should have spoken out and done the right thing for his neighborhood. But he folded to BDB.
This is the same politics we have always know. Politicians making bills for their friends, instead of representing their community whose being overcharged by the de Blasio administration. This week we saw Gounardes
What it comes down to is Gounardes is not able to speak up against the Democratic Leaders and doesn’t take the next step when people aren’t being helped.
Gounardes talked to Caranza – when he didn’t get a response to seven letters, Gounardes didn’t take the next step to get a response….Calling for a meeting and talking to people in person isn’t his thing I guess. See the video here.
Hugs,
marlene
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