Mannsville residents will vote on village dissolution this Tuesday. It's the latest in a series of such votes that have gone both ways around the state.
For most, Mannsville is an exit on I-81 but for those voting its more a question of local identity versus what even proponents say would be small savings as the village only has a couple of employees.
Watertown Daily Times | Mannsville residents weigh factors in village dissolution vote
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One has to wonder if a "Regional" Govt. is the way to go, It was discussed in the 80's with a county wide water district, but it seems to have died, and DANC was created.
We have a regional government. It's called the Watertown Daily Times.
You hit it Mayor. Two people working in a village amounts out to just asking them if they would take the right to use all the equipment as the pleased and a used car to drive instead of money. maybe a tax break on property? Hell I would work there. Most people who work for a town already have all that. :)
Ray the problem that everyone overlooks is that two people working in a village could steal everything and never show up for work but it would still be much cheaper than if they were part of a bigger government system. The engineering consulting fees and attorney fees alone for a bigger system would wipe any savings.
Look at the unionized library in Watertown. Look at the hundreds of thousand committed to the ugly bird cage at the park.
If a small village wanted to rehab the bird cage, they would show up for free on the weekend and do it with volunteers. If they wanted weekend hours in the library they would do it with volunteers. If they wanted fire coverage they would do it with volunteers. If they wanted a bigger fire barn they would put up a pole barn and do it with volunteers.
You have to keep in mind that there are legions of sharks just waiting to leach off from government by supplying either "services or "products". These leaches have a much tougher time spreading their costs over a small municipality and so are often kept in check. Not so in the bigger systems.
Look at DANC. They are regional. They located the landfill on the top of an aquifer in a non central location. Then in order to pay their buddies generously they sold out your children and decided to import trash.
They built fiber optics that were redundant. They hand checks for 12 million over to the city without blinking so that they could rebuild their water plant and then price gouge the town of Watertown when supplying them. And that $12MM was back when that was a lot of money instead of just the amount to rehab an historic building.
There are million$ of reasons to keep from merging and if you don't see them then you might as well vote democrat. Is that what you want???? Do you want to be one of those? If not, then straighten up and fly right boy!
Just like the town of Watertown should be abolished and absorbed by the city..
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