TIMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 13, No 5
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FEBRUARY 3 - 9, 2016
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Lloyd ZBA member resigns following outburst
As the Lloyd Zoning Board of Appeals
was discussing a variance for a fence at a
meeting in December, board member Tim
Marion spoke at length on what he sees as
present and past practices of favoritism
in town.
Marion, who resigned from the ZBA
on Tuesday said he grew up in Lloyd and
has roots that go back two centuries. He
summed up the way he believes business
is conducted in Lloyd.
“If you’re not part of the who’s who
club you don’t get what you want. If you
come in and you want to do something
with your property you get shoved up
ONE DOLLAR
Baseball
clinic
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Uproar at the Zoning Board
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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you’re a**. Its not funny.”
Marion told the ZBA that he was
once issued a ticket from officer Larry
Fuhrmann (also Marion’s step father-inlaw) for having too many vehicles on his
50-acre property, while he (Fuhrmann)
wanted to sell a car from his parcel. After
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Sunday stroll
Last Sunday, with the temperature nearing 60 degrees, people went out to the Walkway Over the Hudson to enjoy the unseasonably warm,
sunny weather.
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County
seeks sales
tax equity
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week, the Ulster County
Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee,
under the chairmanship of Richard
Gerentine [R-Marlborough], met to discuss how sales taxes are divided up across
the county. A new agreement is drawn up
and voted upon every five years.
In a power point presentation,
Gerentine stated that by a 1968 resolution
the county received all of the sales tax
money. After negotiations in 1993 a new
division was drawn up, with the county receiving 88 percent and the City of
Kingston 10 percent, leaving the remaining 2 percent to be divided among 20
towns. By 2001 the division was adjusted
again, to what stands today, with 85.5
percent going to the county, 11.5 percent
going to the City of Kingston [an increase
of 1.5 percent for Safety Net costs] and
3percent apportioned for the towns. This
later agreement is set to expire at the end
of February, which is what prompted the
Committee to consider the matter.
Gerentine said he has been involved
in preliminary discussions that he
expects will be ongoing with the City of
Kingston; also included were Legislative
Chairman Ken Ronk, Legislator Hector
Rodriguez, County Executive Mike Hein
and Kingston Mayor Steve Noble and
members of their their respective staffs.
“Hopefully we can have this resolved
in the time frame that we have to have it
done by,” Gerentine said.
Once slide showed that in recent years
the amount collected in sales taxes in
the county has been steadily rising, with
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