They Must Be Taking The Short Bus
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- April
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The besieged Westchester County Board of Legislators is going on an excellent adventure a tomorrow when they journey to Playland Amusement Park in Rye for a personal inspection of the bath house.
No, they’re not going to be snapping towels at each other’s bare posteriors. Darn! But they will be covering their butts, in a manner of speaking.
The purpose of the trip is see just how badly in need of repair the historic bath house is, before they approve the funds “preserve and protect” it.
But take a guess at the proposed cost…Are you sitting down? It’s eight million bucks! That’s equivalent to the most expensive waterfront homes in Rye. Somebody must be running the figures through the Hall of Mirrors to achieve such a distortion.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
The county government could make it go down easier by saying the eight million dollars is an “adequate level of compensation” for the work that needs to be done. Kind of like “a spoon full of sugar”.
As I posted on the blog, this bunch should take a tour of Disneyland to see how much money old Walt’s heirs are losing each year. Lots of federal, state, property and school taxes paid, too, one would imagine. AND amortization of the land. They also had to engineer their own lake. Long Island Sound just HAPPENED!
Touring the bathhouse? Say hello to Barney Frank.
And they probably arrived in seventeen separate taxpayer-owned cars.