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Leslie Masson September 4, 2012 at 01:23 pm
I am responding as a former member of the Festa Committee (2010 and 2011). Before assuming that the…Read More Italian Feast received $15,000 this year from the BID, you should check your facts. I heard that the number was about 1/5th of what they gave in previous years, but we could both be wrong. Secondly, about the money being made on the street. Vendors pay a flat fee to the festival to get their spot so whatever money you see on the street during the event goes to the vendors themselves and not the festival. I don't know how the raffle ticket was drawn this year but in the past it was drawn by a randomly selected person from the audience. If it wasn't for Assumption personnel and church goers buying the raffle tickets in yet another way they support their church they probably wouldn't even have been 260 raffle tickets sold. So as long as the winner was selected randomly it shouldn't matter who the winner was. The non profit company that runs Festa Italiana Peekskill is Downtown Festivals Inc. and they must file tax returns each year which I believe any Peekskill taxpayer can request to see. Maybe even non Peekskill residents, non Peekskill property owners, non Peeksill business owners have that right also, you can check with the NYS Department of taxation to see if you can also get a copy of their tax returns.
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Patty Villanova September 4, 2012 at 11:59 am
The Festa receives taxpayer money from the BID. I believe this year it was $15,000, as it was in…Read More the past. The money is supposed to be for a "sponsorship" and in return the BID was supposed to receive certain "perks" for its members. if you walk through the event, it's obvious that there's a lot of money being made here, most of it in cash. Since taxpayer money is involved, I'm wondering if the organizer's registered charitable organization is ever audited to see how where the money goes. Also, how is it that an employee of the Assumption,which is the main beneficiary of the Festa, wins the raffle? I thought such things were not permitted; then again, this is Peekskill so the rules are different.
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NAO June 15, 2011 at 11:53 pm
What a nice story. It is so nice to see when people and corporations give back.
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Laurie Gershgorn May 1, 2011 at 12:34 pm
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Peekskill80 August 27, 2012 at 08:08 pm
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Lynda Hall August 27, 2012 at 03:01 pm
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Deb Carlin Polhill July 25, 2012 at 12:25 pm
The Brady girls, Lauren & Caitlin, are to be commended for their leadership, courage and…Read More dedication. I am so proud of them, as I am of my daughter Lauren Shortt and her beautiful tribute to her precious sister Cait Chivonne. The support we have seen through donations at Curls for Cait is yet another fine example of the magnificent Peekskill-Cortlandt community of which we are a part. Looking forward to wonderful success on August 17th!
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john basic July 11, 2012 at 12:14 am
I don't think the gazebo is an anchor for downtown. The size of it looks misplaced where it is.…Read More People can volunteer where they think they will be useful but I think for the most part city projects should come from the taxes that are collected and not use the taxes saved by the volunteers to be used to hire another consultant.
Patty Villanova July 10, 2012 at 08:33 pm
Anyone who "volunteers" to do this kind of work is a sucker in my book. Here's why: the…Read More city of Peekskill (or rather, the Corrupto-crats who run it) obtains many millions of dollars from local taxpayers as well as those in surrounding communities, the State and the Federal government. This money is used mainly to keep said Corrupto-crats and their compadres in office and to pay their extortionate salaries and benefits. Jason Angell, the BID director gets something like $25K per year for his part time job. A job for which "there is no reward for excellence and no penalty for failure." In short, there are any number of people with such lucrative positions who work in every department, who could and should be doing this work. Except maybe their unions won't let them. Or maybe they're just too lazy and/or incompetent. So please, before you volunteers go patting yourselves on the back for a job well done, consider how you are actually making things worse.
john basic July 6, 2012 at 05:09 pm
The Design of the Gazebo does not fit in with the downtown look. I do not know how it was approved…Read More in the frist place. If you cannot put seats or benches in it, what is the purpose of it? It is just a large structure now with NO use.
Ryan Buncher (Editor) July 4, 2012 at 08:54 pm
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Faith Varriale July 4, 2012 at 07:26 pm
Thank you Stu, you sure captured the frustrated mood of my grandaughter. "Happy 4th".…Read More
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Greg Russo March 11, 2013 at 12:38 am
It is a wonderful thing, not a waste of money, since the girls went through the
painstaking task of…Read More getting it up, someone
should step up and take care of it instead of bringing negativity before thr town takes it away.parents should go there and pratice
with there kids instead of watching sports on TV.
Jon Sebastian December 1, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Court had been up since June and these kids have played basketball maybe twice. This was a waste of…Read More town money. The only thing it's used for is kids hanging out smoking and drinking at night.
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