Mayor Sottile...NO MORE 9% TAX INCREASES ....CUT Fire Department

To Mayor Sottile,


We cannot cut the Police Force. We can cut some supervisory positions at DPW. However, we MUST cut the Kingston Fire Department budget down from $7 Million. We can no longer afford to send fire trucks to all Emergency Calls. We can no longer have firemen sleeping through the 12 midnight to 8am shift. Please Mr. Mayor, do not burden City taxpayers with another 9% tax increase plus more fees and plus more layoffs in DPW in order to preserve a GOLD plated Paid Fire Department. To discuss further, Go To my blog at......ULSTERTAX.BLOGSPOT.COM

Please Save Our Children's Future in NY -- Vote Paladino over Cuomo

How much more pain are we New Yorkers expected to take? Our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters are leaving New York by the droves. Why? Because of the usual New York politics symbolized by Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, Shelly Silver and all of the dysfunction in Albany which is "owned" lock-stock-and-barrel by the state unions. I urge my fellow New Yorkers to try to get out of this mess by putting somebody like Carl Paladino in as Governor to balance out the power of the New York City politicians such as Andrew Cuomo and Shelly Silver.

BASIC LOGIC --- Why fewer students? People and Jobs have left us.

BASIC LOGIC ------ If there are fewer students and fewer buildings, there should be less personnel including teachers, administrators and support people and there should be a reduction in school taxes, not an increase...............Why are there fewer students?  Because people and jobs have left our school district due to high taxes and unusually high teachers salaries and benefits....Reject all politicians who are supported by unions.......ie. Andrew Cuomo and Tom DiNapoli.

Fiddling While Rome Burns -- Please Stop KHS Building Project Madness

Fiddling While Rome Burns ----- We the people of the Kingston School District want the school board to Stop this KHS Renovation exercise in futility. Change Gears and start brainstorming on how we are going to break the Teacher's Union stranglehold on our children's future and our local ability to stay in our homes. We want the board to eliminate "Step Increases for longevity and education credits". Why? Because we can do this elimination at the local level. There is NO Mandate for "Step Increases". Look at what is happening in Saugerties. Their district is descimated and dismantled. That is coming for Kingston. The Federal and State governments are broke. The Teacher's pension funds could bankrupt us. Please stop this building project madness. To discuss further, please Go To ---> http://ULSTERTAX.BLOGSPOT.COM

What Can Voters Do in this November's ELECTION ?

What can we the people do to begin to 1) Make our schools better, 2) Lower taxes, 3) Keep more young adults in New York State and in Ulster County?


The answer is ---- DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE WHO RECEIVES UNION SUPPORT..........For a list of candidates who receive Union support, come back to this BLOG. The list will be updated over the next few weeks.  If you know of candidates who receive Union support, please help us out by posting to this blog.  Thanks.

DO YOU WANT TO HEAR A BAD IDEA - Demolishing the MJM Building as part of the KHS $86 Million Renovation

Any KHS Renovation Plan that demolishes usable classroom space such as the MJM Building is a BAD IDEA.  First of all, the elementary population in the Kingston District has decreased dramatically.  There is a 22 percent vacancy rate in the elementary schools.  Some of these elementary schools will become available for KHS usage eventually.  Let's not demolish any schools and rebuild them at a cost of $86 Million.  Let's face it.  Those days are over.

Reject Union Control - Reject both Cuomo for Gov and DiNapoli for Comptroller

The powerful teacher's unions run the schools. How do we know this? The unions control the compensation plan via their unfair advantage in contract negotiations. Where is the evidence of unions controlling the compensation plan. The unions will not agree to individual good teacher merit pay, but they will agree to giving teacher's step pay increases for longevity and agree to giving teacher's pay raises for taking college courses in teaching. In other words, the unions will not let individual teachers be given pay increases for excellent results with the students in their classroom, but the unions will allow teachers to get pay increases as a group for courses and longevity. The key to a successful operation is control of individual compensation not group compensation. That is why I say the teacher's unions run the schools and why our schools could be much better if a school boss gave raises to individual successful classroom teachers for excellent individual student successes. I don't know about you, but I am tired of wasting our New York State children's lives and futures for the benefit of union raises and nonsense. For this November's election, do not vote for any state candidate who gets union support. For starters, do not vote for Andrew Cuomo for governor or do not vote for Thomas DiNapoli, both who receive heavy union support.