The 3rd of 3 Public Hearings on the County Wide Shared Services Initiative ~ in Windham this Tuesday ~ Please come to this meeting!

Bring ideas of how Greene County can consolidate efforts to improve service and save taxpayers money.

PUBLIC HEARING – County Wide Shared Services Initiative ~ in Windham this Tuesday

June 13 @ 6:30 pm
Greene County Legislature, Public Hearings
Venue
Centre Property
Windham, NY United States

Public Hearing – Governor’s Shared Services Initiative

Please come to this public hearing, we need your support.

Thank YOU!

Greene County Democratic Committee

http://greenegovernment.com/event/public-hearing-cwssi-2

https://www.ny.gov/programs/shared-services-initiative

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR:

A thoughtful piece on our challenges and opportunities as we Take Back the House in 2018!  And don’t forget the 74 town races in 2017. Do you have candidates identified in your town?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/can-democrats-save-themselves.amp.html
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GreeneDems.org – More Info
GCDC on Flickr – Event Photos
GCDC on Facebook

This is the 2nd of 3 Public Hearings on the County Wide Shared Services Initiative ~ in Cairo this Tuesday ~ Please come to this meeting!

Bring ideas of how Greene County can consolidate efforts to improve service and save money.

PUBLIC HEARING – CWSSI
June 6 @ 6:30 pm
Greene County Legislature, Public Hearings
Venue:
Greene County Emergency Control and Training Center
25 Volunteer Drive
Cairo, NY 12413 United States
Phone:
518-622-3643
http://greenegovernment.com/event/public-hearing-cwssi

Public Hearing – Governor’s Shared Services Initiative

Please come to this public hearing, we need your support.

Thank YOU!

Greene County Democratic Committee

http://greenegovernment.com/event/public-hearing-cwssi 

https://www.ny.gov/programs/shared-services-initiative

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The 3rd meeting will be held in Windham:

June 13 @ 6:30 pm
Greene County Legislature, Public Hearings
Venue
Centre Property
Windham, NY United States

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GreeneDems.org – More Info
GCDC on Flickr – Event Photos
GCDC on Facebook

Want to Run for Local Office?
74 Local Elections in November 2017 ~

Find what office to run for and contact your Town Chair here ~ http://greenedems.org/?page_id=39

Please come to this meeting if you are available, public participation is needed.

http://greenegovernment.com/event/public-hearing-governors-shared-services-initiative

https://www.ny.gov/programs/shared-services-initiative

Devastating.

There is no other way to describe the latest reports on the impact of the Republican’s American Health Care Act. 23 million people would lose their health care according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, states would lose $834 billion in federal funds for their Medicaid programs and in New York, 2.7 million people would be left without health coverage.

That’s 1 in every 7 New Yorkers who would be shut out of potentially life-saving medical care. Another 7 million New Yorkers who rely on Medicaid and other services created under the Affordable Care Act would also be put at risk.

And all this comes with a hefty price tag – a loss of nearly $7 billion in health care funding in New York alone.

Fewer people covered and much greater cost for taxpayers is a prescription for disaster.

But the bad news doesn’t stop there. The AHCA would also defund Planned Parenthood, strip away access to reproductive health services, and deny low-income New Yorkers tax credits used to lower insurance costs.

Their bill will deny millions of Americans access to critical health programs like maternity and pediatric services, opioid addiction treatment, and protections for people with pre-existing conditions. It would set our country back to the darkest days of the Great Depression when getting sick was a financial death blow.

In New York, we don’t look back and we’re not going to let this Congress take us back to the days when going to a doctor meant going broke. So please, reach out to your member of Congress and make your voice count.

Think of your friends and family. Think of yourself. Now think of a country where health care is unaffordable and unattainable for you and the people you love.

That’s not who we are as New Yorkers. If you feel the same way, please join us in sending a message to Congress. 

In unity,

Andrew Cuomo

Talk to your Town Chair, we are setting up interviews for potential Candidates in 2017 and 2018 ~

NY 19 Votes Spring Canvass

Sign Up ~ Show Up! You don’t have to live in Catskill or Windham to participate. Come to the training in Catskill or Windham, and then go to your neighborhood or town to canvass. It’s easy!  Canvassing now will help all our candidates this November, and next November.

Join us and help make our NY 19 Votes Spring Canvass as powerful as possible. Let’s continue to register and engage voters across the district! Sign Up!  http://bit.ly/NY19SpringCanvass

GREENE COUNTY: Information will be the same in both locations
Catskill: 466 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414
Windham: Higher Grounds Coffee, 61 NY-296, Windham, NY 12496 – (518) 734-4120

May 07, 2017• 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Updates coming soon…

For more information, please contact Beth Schneck at bSchneckPhoto@gmail.com – updates coming soon.

The Broadband Program Office has made Round III RFP guidelines available and will begin accepting applications for broadband funding on the Consolidated Funding Application portal starting on June 6, 2017, and applications must be submitted by August 15, 2017. The New NY Broadband Program sets as a requirement for service a goal of 100 Mbps download speeds, with 25 Mbps acceptable in the most remote and rural areas.

https://www.nysbroadband.ny.gov
https://www.ny.gov/programs/broadband-all
https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/broadband-progress-reports/2016-broadband-progress-report
https://www.greenegovernment.com/news-press/greene-county-isps-broadband
https://www.greenegovernment.com/news-press/nys-phase-ii-grants-to-bring-broadband-to-4391-unserved-and-underserved-greene-county-homes-and-businesses


http://www.ottcommunications.com/regional-broadband-approaches/

Columbia County Information as reference – ConnectColumbiaCounty.com :

uy Tickets Now ~ click on FDR Photo Below, or at  GreeneDems.org click on FDR photo in Column on the Right of the Page ~ Please purchase tickets by midnight Monday,  April 24th.

The candidates that will be speaking at this event are:  Brian Flynn, Sue Sullivan, Antonio Delgado, Steven Brisee and Patrick Ryan.  

The money raised at this event will be used to support Democratic Candidates in the 76 local races in Greene County in 2017. Want to Run?

Audio Recording of the Meeting is Here Thanks to WGXC! 

The 2 audio recordings overlap, part 2 starts at 4:05 on part 1 (which covers 47:00 minutes of the meeting). You can listen to part 2 only, the first 4 minutes were primarily about the difference between a county jail and state prison.
0 – 56:40 – 1st Speaker – Shaun Groden
20:00 – Average stay in jail under 50 days
21ish – Drug treatment and training
30:00 – Greene County gets no money from NY State
33:22 – Shrink size? Cells come in pairs/double bed cells
39:42 – How much cost? Started at 51.3 million, now at 46.7 million more will be cut (this is build cost only, not amortized over 30 years – see chart)
49:00 – Interest rate is locked in – describes how this process works
51:30 – Not able to whittle down price below 38million
56:40 – 2nd Speaker – Lori Torgersen
1:06 – Shaun Groden
1:23 – Solar usage at jail to 1:26
1:26 – Water reservoir used and concerns

https://wavefarm.org/wgxc/newsroom/1s5cx3

Additional information here: http://greenedems.org/?p=4298
https://greenegovernment.com/greene-government/proposed-jail-project
https://facebook.com/GreeneCountyJailProject

Interested in Greene County Transit?
Info: http://greenegovernment.com/greene-county-transit
Routes: http://greenegovernment.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Route-Guide.pdf