Meeting to Review 2010 Erie County Budget

Will this mean, Erie County will actually be "Business Friendly" for companys wanting to locate here? Instead of telling them how to run thier business, how the building should look, who should be working for them, pay a fee for every nick nack you have in your business and then tax the crap out of them.
And also, actually fix the city sidewalks and streets? Plow the snow off ALL CITY streets after snowfall instead of making many people wait days to sometimes a week before they can drive down thier own block again. HOLD THOSE IN POWER FOR ONCE??? If someone is not doing thier job, writes bogus checks, and is a known criminal, can they actually be booted out of office in 2010?
All this and more will make Erie County a much better place to work and live in.

The 2010 Erie County Budget will be eliminating funds for the county's last two remaining public health clinics, the Matt Gajewski Human Services Center and Jesse Nash Family Health Center.

Thousands of individuals and families rely on these easy-to-access neighborhood clinics for basic healthcare services. Their immunization efforts are a front line defense against the spread of deadly diseases like the Swine Flu. The entire community benefits form the services provided by these clinics.

There will be a rally at County Hall on Nov. 12th at 4pm. Please come and help us call on the County Executive and Legislature to protect the health of the community and keep these clinics open.

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Erie County cannot be business friendly as long as every city, town and village are allowed to have separate IDAs and zoning codes and other local buracracies instead of a single point of contact for any business trying to add jobs.

Erie County cannot be people friendly if it is closing access to health clinics that for some are the only access they have to medical care.

Erie County cannot be tourism friendly if it continues to refuse to even discuss a new Convention/Conference Center for the CVB or Light Rail extensions to the airport and Central Terminal Rail Center, especially since the majority of new growth downtown is in hotel rooms which wont have the patrons if we cant expand visitors accessing downtown.

Erie County cannot be education friendly if the light rail doesnt get connect to UB Amherst...which would give a population of nearly 50,000 access to downtown Buffalo or push expansion at Buffalo State (the states 2nd largest educational institution).

Oh...arent the statistics for the County Building and City Hall as roughly 50% occupancy. Seems to me if someone wanted to save money, then the City and County would merge into one single building and open the other building for rent back to the taxpayer. This could even lead to consolidating certain services between all municipalities and the county. Particularly if their co-located.

Of course...they wont consolidate into one building or merge services to save money but they will close healthcare clinics and dump the Olmsted Parks Conservancy which brings millions in matching funds...and starve other pro-growth necessities.

So much of what Erie County is trying to do is odd. Erie County has lower taxes than Monroe County. Buffalo has lower taxes than Rochester. Yet, companies still choose Monroe County and Rochester over Erie County and Buffalo. Obviously there is something in play that doesnt involve the state and doesnt involve taxes. Its called quality of life. If Erie County continues to starve quality of life then Buffalo and Erie County may never grow.