Joe Pacini, author of Fighting Back...Appealing Your Property Assessment and Cathy Lawrence,
Co-Founder of Concerned Citizens will be guests on the Common Cents Show this week
on Public Access Channel 99 at the following times:
f you missed the Monday, June 16, 2008 meeting
that was held at the New Hartford Library regarding Stormwater "fixes" for the Oxford/Tibbitts/Longworth
Acres area,
Concerned Citizens audiotaped
the meeting.
To listen to the tape you will need Windows Media Player.
Another meeting was held on June 24, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in the New Hartford
High School Auditorium regarding the Woodberry/Beechwood area.
Concerned Citizens videotaped the meeting and
it is now available online.
ALL Town of Whitestown, N.Y. Online
Assessments are now online;
click here to search by owner name or address.
A signed copy of the New Hartford Teachers Contract 2007 - 2010 is now online.
Click Here!
You've probably already heard about Joe Pacini's NEW book,
"Fighting Back...Appealing Your Property Tax Assessment",
from his interviews on the "Common Cents" radio & TV program.
For more information on
Joe's complete how-to guide is now availalbe, click here!
Concerned Citizens For Honest & Open Government was conceived in October 2006. It is
comprised of individuals whose residences are situated within the boundaries of
the Town of New Hartford, New York. Our members are both professional and non-professional.
Our ideas, goals and objectives serve to inform town residents on matters impacting their quality of life.
Work performed is strictly on a volunteer basis. The Group’s efforts to date have centered on the following
fundamental areas of concern: (1) Compliance with New York State Laws; (2) Assessments on both commercial
and residential real estate and the Grievance process; (3) Environmental issues; (4) Fiscal restraint;
(5) Open Meetings and the Conduct of these Meetings IAW Open Meetings
Law; (6) Dissemination of town information via the internet; (7) Compliance with
New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL); (8) Mandatory use of
referendums to the maximum extent possible where the expenditure of tax dollars
is involved; (9) Town Contractual Obligations and (10) Storm Water Issues.
However, the foregoing is merely a template and always a work-in-progress,
subject to change.
While the above is merely an overview of our concerns, goals and objectives; it is within the Group’s
purview to continuously challenge town officials to be open and honest in matters that have recently been
kept from the public eye since January 2006. A basic tenet of our Group is to ensure and maintain the
integrity of public officials whose observed failure of due diligence does not reach beyond the pale of
justice.
We encourage any town resident to view our website to learn more about ways in which they can become
actively involved as a member of our Group and/or to actively participate as a subject matter volunteer on
any of the above mentioned areas of concerns.
Concerned Citizens for Honest & Open Government Sign up for our Email Group! For more information,
click here!
Assessment Debacle...... Really? I didn't know...
and what about.....? Our reply to the Town Board
regarding the Oct. 20, 2006 Observer Dispatch article.
Town of New Hartford Adopted
Sign Ordinance!
Click Here!
Robert Freeman, Executive Director,
Committee on Open Government regarding Minutes of Meetings Also be sure to read
our
BLOG regarding this Opinion Letter
