Dear Editor,
It was wonderful to read in the MidHudson News that Town of Poughkeepsie Supervisor Jay Baisley admitted that the cost to relocate the town offices, including the police department and court, to the current site of the Poughkeepsie Day School, would be too expensive for the residents of the Town.
Let me make clear that everyone is in agreement that the Town police need new facilities. The police currently are housed in a building that sits on a landfill and is a total disaster.
But it would be wrong to congratulate the Supervisor for fiscal responsibility in deciding not to move Town facilities to the PDS site. Instead, he is (finally) responding to the outcry from the public demanding that a different, more economically viable and accessible site be found, with input from the public in the process.
The Supervisor and Board have been unyielding in moving forward with the PDS plan. Now, they’ve changed directions only after an ever-growing group of citizens of all political affiliations began leafleting the Town, and regularly attending Board meetings and objecting to the PDS plans. Town residents, organized under the name ‘We are the Town of Poughkeepsie’, continued to put pressure on the Board, and successfully petitioned for a full set of candidates to run in the upcoming November election to bring transparency, fiscal responsibility, and rational decision-making back to the Town of Poughkeepsie government.
Janet Gray
Poughkeepsie
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