Talking budget, OP trustees considered options. Cutting costs being one of them:
Trustee Robert Milstein said the board should be careful not to raise false expectations that they can keep spending in line.
"I don't think anyone's going to be happy if we cut a service," Milstein said.
As a revenue producer, Milstein suggested increasing fines for developers who do more demolition than was village-approved on historical homes, and implementing a tax on vacant buildings.
Let us give credit to anyone trying to spend no more than $116.7 million next year, but may we not ask what’s this about making people happy? Since when did that happen at budget time? Question is, will you trustees be happy — satisfied, whatever? Not to mention, will voters be happy if spending goes over, bond rating is reduced, etc.? And which voters? The dumb ones?
As for those fines for developers et al., are not these people who have been in Trustee Milstein’s crosshairs for some time now? And might he be better occupied in finding sources with eye on prize of revenue totals rather than, as one suspects, on people to be taught a lesson? Forget killing two or more birds with one stone already.
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