Yonkers Tribune

URGENT NOTICE ---  Change in venue.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the President of the Board of Education Trustees, Dr. Nader Sayegh, Esq., has called a Special Meeting for the purpose of going into Executive Session to discuss Personnel matters. The Board will reconvene in public to discuss retention of special counsel to review administrative contracts and agreements.

Senate Office will Make IT-201 and Other Related NYS Forms Available at the Office and By Delivery for Seniors 

PORT CHESTER, NY -- State Senator George Latimer has announced that beginning immediately, NYS income tax forms, including the IT-201, will be available for pickup at the Senator's office or via delivery for senior citizens who request them.

Up until a few years ago, New York State used to send forms out by mail.  With that service no longer available, Latimer's office has taken the initiative to perform this function for local taxpayers.  Forms are also available online at www.tax.ny.gov/forms . 

The Chinese celebrate passage into the New Year from January 30, 2014, to January 31, 2014,to greet the Year of the Horse, in combination of symbols, design, and colors, such as vibrant reds and gold. The horse symbolizes nobility, intelligence and social aptitude. People born into the Year of the Horse, are recognized by their free spirit, strength and speed, their competitiveness, action oriented demeanor, representing the freedom and adventurousness in the lunar calendar's depiction.

YONKERS, NY – January 30, 2014 -- Council President Liam J. McLaughlin today announced he would move to introduce a local law that includes school taxes in the property tax exemptions be made available to veterans in Yonkers in next Tuesday’s Rules Committee meeting. The local option to eliminate the "school tax-add back" provision recently became law as Chapter 518 of the laws of 2013.

The revelation that New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is behind the effort to cover the $55 Million shortfall in part or in full to cover the Yonkers Board of Education divulged on January 17, 2014, with the discussion focus  on the  "featured" BlogTalk Radio show "Westchester On the Level Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris" this Thursday, January 30, 2014 @ 10 a.m., with Hezi Aris, host of today's show. Share your perspective by calling the show at 347-205-9201 or by using Skype: contact eHezi18 during the "live" broadcast, or listen on demand by way of the following hyperlink: http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WestchesterOnTheLevel/

YONKERS, NY -- January 29, 2014 -- Yonkers City Hall has been in disarray since Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano was advised that the Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) had suffered upwards of a $55 million shortfall over the last two years. Yonkers City Hall claims it was Yonkers Public Schools (YPS) Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio who personally advised the mayor of the deficit. Yonkers Tribune contends it was Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Nicholas (Nick) DeSantis of the accounting firm O'Connor Davies Munns & Dobbins, LLP, who revealed the questionable respective entries of $26.9 million in 2012-2013, and $28.1 million in 2013-2014 to Mayor Spano. Were the entries defined legitimately with respect to a standardized mechanism known as the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) to assuage New York State’s financially exhausted coffers while awaiting better financial times? It may be prudent to consider the GEA entry similar to an I.O.U ( I owe you ), rather than what is more familiar to Yonkersites as “spin-up money. “Spin Up” infers there is money in the next year’s budget, which was not the case here. An I.O.U. suggests money will be paid when it can but not within any specific timeframe. So what happened?

YONKERS , NY – January 29, 2014 -- Be advised that an Environmental Policy & Protection Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 4th at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Yonkers City Hall, 4^th floor.

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