Democracy In Albany

  What is sad is that at the public comment period at the Common Council meeting about the budget, there were exactly two (2) people, including myself who told the common council that this budget was a mess and they had to "rein in spending"  The only question or response from the CC was Mike O'Brien pointed out that we also used some of our county surplus to balance our budget.  This was (is) true, but we also did a number of other things, eliminated vacant positions, restructured depts., went to a self insured health insurance and raised some taxes.  It does not take a rocket scientist, fiscal policy expert or accountant, to recognize and deal with reality.  The Mayor and his folks are unwilling to do so.

  But, hey, at least there was some comment from the CC, which was more than any of them who voted in favor of rezoning Holland Ave. did before blindly voting  to give us a beautiful Walgreens with a nice 25 foot high sign and drive through...