[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-14 Thread Gabrielle Obre
thanks, be there around 11am --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre gabrielleobre@ wrote: that was snort worthy! funny stop by my office and I'll fax it. someone's in by 9 am if I'm not. leave either

[AsburyPark] Re: budget

2008-11-14 Thread oakdorf
---if you go back to 2007 buget excel spreadsheet, if it's accurate on the city website, accumulated time was $1.6m 2007, now $4m? Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
Awesome. But the budget as it looks now is pretty incomprehensible. There must be a way to simplify it. Though maybe a first step is to simply create a PDF of it. The city should have it in that form. I am willing to put in some time to do data entry into a spreadsheet out of which something

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you throw as many insults as anyone. No I don't. Ever. I take great pains not to personalize. I point it out when others do. making fun of the lights is a perfect example. and I assume that is part of public

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
Nevermind. what are your thoughts on what I wrote about the budget? --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre gabrielleobre@ wrote: you throw as many insults as anyone. No I don't. Ever. I take great

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevermind. what are your thoughts on what I wrote about the budget? Probable won't have much to say until we get a PDA of the budget. It will lead to an interesting discussion about priorities instead of platitudes.

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
Give me a break. You don't live in AP, and those ridiculous lights aren't blaring into your home at night when it's supposed to be dark. All of the homes that boarder the boardwalk area are lit up like daytime every single night, whether there is an event or not. The lights near the Casino

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, wernerapnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == Typical Twisting issues to dilute the actual points. The above statement is personalizing, because it is about me and a motive you are concluding

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
Buy shades. If you live near an airport you can't complain about the noise. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give me a break. You don't live in AP, and those ridiculous lights aren't blaring into your home at night when it's supposed to be dark. All

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
I have a hard copy. Just got off the phone with someone at the finance office. she was unaware if a PDF version exists and didn't seem too interested in finding out. My scanner is not legal paper size. The budget is 44 pages. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
Go over to the UPS store near Clancy's Tavern and Fax it to me. 732-807-7294. My system automatically turns it into a PDF. I'll then post it to the Group. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard copy. Just got off the phone with someone at

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
You are a hypocrite. Buy shades. What a jerk. And stop with your personalizing crap. When you say Buy shades it just shows what selfish, out of touch and inconsiderate person you really are. Asbury Park isn't an airport. It's a seaside town thats more residential then tourism oriented. When

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
Look, it's another long winded attempt by you to justify another ludicrous stance taken by you. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pitzer hinge98@ wrote: You are a hypocrite. Buy shades. What a jerk. And stop

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
Posts like this one are a good example of why so many people have a love/hate relationship with you. You are self-righteous, and feel the need to argue a point, no matter how wrong or ludicrous it is, right into the ground until you either feel that the people think you are right, or like in

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look, it's another long winded attempt by you to justify another ludicrous stance taken by you. More personalizing. Get back on topic Jack. AP is looking to be open year round, so my airport analogy is fine. Buy

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
No, your thinking is flawed. Ocean Grove residents need not have to deal with our overzealous lighting, and despite the hope that AP will be a year round destination, it's simply not the case, yet, and even when that happens, there is absolutely no justfication for blaring light at all hours

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are a hypocrite. Buy shades. What a jerk. And stop with your personalizing crap. Jack you call me a jerk and say stop complaining about personalizing in the same sentence. Nice. When you say Buy shades it just

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
that would cost me 30 bucks. does anyone have a fax machine? or can't i just get this to you? --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go over to the UPS store near Clancy's Tavern and Fax it to me. 732-807-7294. My system automatically turns it into a

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
See if JK is down at City Hall. He can put it in the fax at the City. Local call so it won't cost the City any money. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that would cost me 30 bucks. does anyone have a fax machine? or can't i just get this to you?

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
No, you are moving on because you aren't going to win this one, at least not with me. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack I'm moving on because you can't stop making conclusions about me instead of the issue. --- In

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
Just spoke with him, faxing would take forever, he is going to ask Reidy to have a PDF created and posted on the city's website --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See if JK is down at City Hall. He can put it in the fax at the City. Local call so it

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
44 pages = forever? How old is the City's fax machine? Maybe the first budge item is to buy them a new one. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just spoke with him, faxing would take forever, he is going to ask Reidy to have a PDF created and posted

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
The budget should be in PDF on the site to begin with. I'll check again on monday. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 44 pages = forever? How old is the City's fax machine? Maybe the first budge item is to buy them a new one. --- In

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread justifiedright
Well if you find a free fax send it over and I'll have it up asap. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The budget should be in PDF on the site to begin with. I'll check again on monday. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, justifiedright

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
Besides the budget not being there as a PDF, the City website is incredibly out of date, as usual. The homepage still has news items from 4th of July. Hasn't anything happened since then? --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The budget should be in PDF

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread mark07712
I live in AP and I don't agree. All the lights have scared away the hookers that use to walk up and down the street. I think people can now see what they are getting, and are running away fast. (AP hookers are not the best lookers.) I've also noticed a decrease in used condoms when walking my

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
I disagree. It's not the lights that scared the prostitutes away, it's our PD and other task forces that did it. But there are still prostitutes on Kingsley. Lately, I've noticed that one of the longtime ones recently returned, and she's be going up and down Kingsley every single night this

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. It's not the lights that scared the prostitutes away, it's our PD and other task well my daughter told me a kid she graduated with was spotted on the streets hooking wig and all. 18 years old. Hopefully

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
hey maybe that's the answer to ap budget woes. legal prostitution. what with the economy tanking there are surely some game chicks. just the other day while discussing the spitzer saga a very respectable looking guy said to me hey we all pay for it. not in my immediate realm, but who am i to bash

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
Yeah, I could see it. A red light district just like in Amsterdam. Why fly to Holland, or Hamburg, when you can come to AP for all your adult needs. But seriously, the hooker probably has diminished big time, and at the moment, it's looks like there may be a maximum of three of them

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey maybe that's the answer to ap budget woes. legal prostitution. what with the economy tanking there are surely some game chicks. just the other day while discussing the spitzer saga a very respectable looking guy

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
Wow, that's good. Ha! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gabrielle Obre gabrielleobre@ wrote: hey maybe that's the answer to ap budget woes. legal prostitution. what with the economy tanking there are surely some game

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well the other day I was in AC on business and had to go to the casino for a meeting. While waiting, I sat down at a $10 blackjack table. then two old peole sat down on either side of me. They are married 63 years and are 83

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2008-11-13 Thread Gabrielle Obre
that was snort worthy! funny tommy, no one offered up the fax machine. sorry, but im not dropping 30 bucks. if someone gives me 20 ill chip in 10 and do it tomorrow, otherwise we can wait for the city. - -- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread apoojo
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, jwkeady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends of Asbury Park: along with a short list of names of citizens that I feel should serve on this committee. We must recruit the most qualified citizens to help the city reach the goals and objectives I have

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread rook782
I think renters should qualify, they pay a lot of taxes directly and indirectly through the landlord. And just because someone rents, it does not mean they are not talented to contribute to the committee. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, apoojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: curious,

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread oakdorf
The key word(s) here are ...who paid property taxes or: Your principal residence is subject to local property taxes, and property taxes are paid on that residence through rent; and Your principal residence is a full living unit with its own separate kitchen and bathroom.

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread oakdorf
***Technically, you're NOT a taxpayer if you live in a tax exempt property - fed housing, religious housing etc (there's more detail but thats a summary). Interesting tidbit The key word(s) here are ...who paid property taxes Fed Housing, religous housing claim/get exempted

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread MarioAPNJ
In a message dated 11/16/2007 7:50:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ***Technically, you're NOT a taxpayer if you live in a tax exempt property - fed housing, religious housing etc (there's more detail but thats a summary). Interesting tidbit

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread justifiedright
No thoughts on this below? To answer the question of what percentage of the budget is discretionary spending and what percentage is mandated, is to also answer the question of whether a budget committee is needed. Lots of folks could end up on a committee that is a complete waste of their

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-16 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, rook782 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think renters should qualify, they pay a lot of taxes directly and indirectly through the landlord. And just because someone rents, it does not mean they are not talented to contribute to the committee. Renters ARE

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread Paul Vail
Jim, Does your ego permit you to feel any sense of shame when you attack the council majority in this irresponsible fashion? I was just wondering. Paul Vail --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, jwkeady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends of Asbury Park: At the November 7th City Council

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread rook782
That comment ought to light up the board for a couple days. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Paul Vail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, Does your ego permit you to feel any sense of shame when you attack the council majority in this irresponsible fashion? I was just wondering. Paul

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Pitzer
As far as I'm concerned, Jim is the only council member that actively reaches out to his community, and one has to respect that considering the history of our cities administration. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, rook782 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That comment ought to light up the board

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Paul Vail vailpj@ wrote: Jim, Does your ego permit you to feel any sense of shame when you attack the council majority in this irresponsible fashion? I was just wondering. Paul Vail Why is it irresponsible? Because he doesn't go along

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it irresponsible? Because he doesn't go along wih the flow?? The guy might be right 100% of the time, but he at least makes you think - like it or not? What is good for the goose is good for the gander and I will

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread MarioAPNJ
Evenhanded indeed. Thank you. I could have stay'd here all the night To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!-- Will Shakespeare In a message dated 11/15/2007 5:51:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread justifiedright
Curious: How much of the current budget is discretionary spending, and how much is mandated spending by County, State, Feds, BofE, etc? Anyone know? I don't. Heard that generally in most towns its quite small, but I couldn't tell you how small. Googlization failed me on the issue.

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget Committee

2007-11-15 Thread oakdorf
I've said it before - we are all in the same boat. We better start rowing together in the same direction. To row a boat, you need the oars. You need the money to buy the oars. No money, no oars. Then you either drift alone, waiting to be rescued, crash or jump and swim for it. Take your

[AsburyPark] Re: Budget

2007-06-18 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roughly $15M out of $35M is just for salaries. Approximately $10M just for fire and police. 10% cut gives $1.5M. That avoids layoffs. Pay it 1. Fire everyone. Legalize/document the undocumented. Hire them to be firemen, work