Elected officials in the Salem are dealing with some of the same questions homeowners have been asking for years. Where can we put our stuff and how can we protect the stuff we do have, from the harsh elements?
Town Supervisor Dennis Faber is hoping for additional space to store equipment for the Camp/Center Lake Rehabilitation District, and would like to pursue the option to purchase or rent of town land for the construction of a storage building.
“The building we lease now is not big enough for anything but our trailers,†he said. “Our other equipment is valued at about $100,000 in replacement costs. The weather hasn’t been good on the equipment and we thought if we can lease or buy some land and put up a storage building, it would help keep stuff out of the weather.â€
Ultimately, the new building would be large enough to store trailers, as well as three harvesters, a transporter and a shore conveyor.
“The harvester cuts the vegetation and is offloaded to the transporter, which is like a shuttle bus, and a shore conveyor which loads to a dump truck,†said Faber. “These are expensive parts and if they sit all winter, we have to keep replacing parts.â€
While Faber and Town Administrator Patrick Casey have no property in mind yet, they needed the Board’s approval to move forward to search for a location, and to determine if the Camp/Center Lake residents are interested in exploring this avenue.
A. Supervisor Faber was not elected to the CCLRD. He was appointed – by the town board – to oversee the lake district for Camp and Center Lakes – a taxing body.
B. He, and the others of the board, spend, spend and spend some more.
C. The CCLRD has become a little business for Supervisor Faber and his relatives and friends.
D. The CCLRD is not, repeat, not a TOWN entity.
E. The Town should be overseeing (via Supervisor Faber) the actions of the District.
F. Chairwoman Tesar frequently shakes her head after listening to Denny Faber talk at length about the CCLRD activities and spending.
G. She has some experience in this venue as she is part of the Hooker Lake District and they havent near the budget that CCLRD nor the money in the checking account that CCLRD has – even if adjusted for size, they are substantially lower in their levy.
H. The money expended in this district is huge, the budget overstated and monies from previous overstatements never presented to the electorate.
I. There is no oversite, little input from the electors and a big tax on those owning in the district, not just to those along the shorelines of these two lakes.
J. CCLRD is a loose cannon and has no intention of curbing itself as evidenced with the desire to spend money it does not have on something it does not need, but WANTS.
K. We all may WANT something, that does not mean that we will GET it.
L. Once property and building are purchased, it will always be a money sucking scenario to a portion of the people in the town for lakes that are used or can be used by everyone.
M. Please, dont let Supervisor Faber prevail in this or in his upcoming election in April.
And who will pay for this?
The CCLRD has about $300,000 sitting in the bank. This is the result of taxing us too much over the past 5 years.
It’s just like the Town of Salem who have been overtaxing us for years.
The CCLRD has a Slush Fund of almost $300,000.
How else can the Town build that castle on Hwy C and not raise taxes? They have been taxing us and taxing us. The Town has a slush fund of almost $1 Million of our money that they don’t need.
There are a lot of people in this town who are losing their homes and all this town and CCLRD can do are raise taxes.
There are a lot of elderly on a fixed income in this town and all they can do is raise our taxes.
Both the CCLRD and the Town of Salem are overtaxing and what is the common denominator between the two? Denny Faber. I would look to him to blame.
PLEASE ATTEND THE UPCOMING CCLRD ANNUAL MEETING ON SATURDAY AUGUST 20TH AT 9AM AT THE TOWN HALL. FIND OUT THE FULL TRUTH BEHIND THE NUMBERS AND NOT HALF TRUTHS THAT ARE BEING SPREAD. QUIT COMPLAINING ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE. BETTER YET, IF YOU FEEL YOU CAN DO A BETTER JOB, GET OFF THE COUCH AND ATTEND QUARTERLY MEETINGS OR BETTER YET RUN FOR OFFICE. THIS IS NOT A DENNIS FABER PROJECT, BUT SIMPLY SOMETHING TO DISCUSS IN AN OPEN FORUM. DOES THE FARMER LEAVE HIS TRACTOR OUTSIDE ALL WINTER, OR DOES HE BUILD A BARN TO STORE IT IN? WE ARE SIMPLY LOOKING TO PROTECT THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE OWN PRIMARILY THROUGH STATE GRANT MONEY. THE INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST STATEMENT THAT CCLRD HAS TOO MUCH MONEY WILL END THAT DAY. IMAGINE A TAXING BODY THAT SOME PEOPLE CLAIM IS TOO MUCH IN THE BLACK DURING THESE TIMES. ASTONISHING.
A CCLRD Board Member said: “IMAGINE A TAXING BODY THAT SOME PEOPLE CLAIM IS TOO MUCH IN THE BLACK DURING THESE TIMES. ASTONISHING.”
So there you are. They want to tax us just to have money in the bank.
Look at the Budget they sent us. They want to collect $179,700 dollars from us and they want to spend $350,000. That means they have at least $170,000 in the bank. And I bet it is a lot more.
This isn’t Obama money. It is out tax dollars that have been taken from us over the past couple of years. As it is written above, there are people out of work. There are people being evicted from their houses. There are seniors living on fixed incomes. And all the CCLRD wants to do is build up cash in the bank.
It is good to see that they are proposing a 17% reduction in our taxes but how much more could it be. We might know if our budget showed our cash balance. But it does not.
I agree it would be nice to be in the “Black” on our books but how much in the “Black” should we be?
YOUR LAST QUESTION IS A FAIR ONE. HOPEFULLY THE PUBLIC WILL ARRIVE AT A CONCLUSION ON 8/20. REMEMBER EVERY DOLLAR CCLRD HAS IN THE BANK HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE CITIZENS OVER THE LAST 15 PLUS YEARS. SOME YEARS THERE ARE SURPLUSES, AND SOME YEARS THERE ARE DEFICITS. ITS THE SURPLUS YEARS THAT ALLOW US TO LOWER TAXES IN 2011 AS WELL AS 2012. THE BUDGET IS PROPOSED USING HISTORICAL AVERAGES. WEATHER PLAYS A BIG PART IN OUR OPERATION AND NO ONE HAS A CRYSTAL BALL. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING AND PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS.