Last night, at the Downtown Library, PUSH Buffalo and The League of Women Voters held a candidate forum for all competitive races for the upcoming common council election. Each candidate running in a competitive Democratic primary was invited. The city has no Republican primary in any district.
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YOU MUST VOTE AT YOUR DESIGNATED POLLING LOCATION The following candidates were in attendance at the forum, which the full video can be found (when the LWV posts it) on the LWVBN's
Youtube page:
Ellicot - Eddie Egriu
- Matt Dearing
- Cedric Holloway
- Leah Halton-Pope
North Masten University Not in attendance No representatives for Lovejoy were in attendance. In addition, incumbents Joe Golombek (North), Brian Bollman(Lovejoy), and Rasheed Wyatt (University) were not in attendance. Non-Incumbent Zeneta Everhart (Masten) was not in attendance as well.Per the LWV's empty chair rule, the absence of two candidates from each district meant that only those running for Ellicot district were allowed to speak to the audience.
Recap I will try my best in the following section to recap the event to the best of my abilities. I do not pretend to be unbiased, however, I will attempt to be fair to each of the candidates in my highlights section.
Matt Dearing (Note, he will also be on the November Ballot on the WFP Line) Matt Dearing gave several answers of policy substance. He highlighted his experience as a community relations director for the NYS assembly. Some substantive policy positions he stated included:
- A full removal of the NYS-33 as opposed to the proposed cap
- Buffalo becoming a "Sanctuary City", which would prevent city law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials
- A pilot program for municipal sidewalk snow removal
- Buffalo taking steps required under the Emergency Tenant Protection Act to enact rent control
- Cracking down on code violations for landlords and expediting the inspections process
- Expanding the cities network of protected bike lanes and integrating them with the NFTA
Cedric Holloway Cedric Holloway emphasized his love of his community, his involvement in youth sports and his role as a youth mentor. He used much of his time to talk about the value of community programs. Some highlights from him include
- Expanding job training and youth development
- Expediting city allocation of lead abatement funds to property owners
- A full removal of the NYS-33 as opposed to the proposed cap
- Hiring more housing inspectors (said the city has 4, 3 of whom are currently paid using ARP funds, I would need a fact check to confirm)
Eddie Egriu Eddie Egriu highlighted his experience in the private sector and in activism. I frankly couldn't understand a lot of his answers to policy questions (at one point he gave a statement that could be interpreted as being either pro or anti-marijuana legalization for example). He included some attacks on other candidates, which I will not repeat. He emphasized
- A full removal of the NYS-33 as opposed to the proposed cap
- Opposition to subsidized housing development without strict affordability quotas
- "Experience" (He started every sentence in his closing statement with the word)
- Property tax relief for homeowners
Leah Halton Pope Leah Halton Pope emphasized throughout the night her deep relationships across the community and all levels of government. She emphasized her experience working for the Assembly Majority leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes. Many of her answers were vague and hard to pin down on specifics, often emphasizing working with others to find solutions. For instance, on a question regarding BPD's sharing of license plate information with federal immigration agencies, she emphasized being welcoming of immigrants, and "working with our partners in the federal government" to ensure their rights are respected. On housing, she emphasized the need for housing stability but did not commit to using the ETPA, (however, she may have alluded to it).On the issue of the 33 redesign:
- Came out in support of the cap of the NYS-33 as opposed to the full removal.
If any of you were in attendance and would like to add to this, please let me know!
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[email protected] I was inspired to make this thread after researching my local transit organization: the RTA (not even an original name), which oversees three separate transit agencies spanning four counties in Metro Detroit.
Well, "oversees" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that previous sentence, it's basically a do-nothing umbrella organization slapped onto the top of all the transit services here.
It's so bad because the RTA has no power to raise taxes for transit outside of property taxes (which people hate), the 9 member board is appointed rather than elected, it requires a supermajority vote to plan commuter rail and a unanimous vote to plan any other type of rail (like light rail, people movers, or subways which would probably passed if the RTA's ballot measure included more of it way back in 2016).
So, what other terrible agencies are out there? I'm curious to know if the RTA is just uniquely terrible or not.
Hi, I have a question about the 3-day requirement for lenders to provide closing disclosures. We were set to close on a Friday. About a week before I asked about when we'd receive the closing disclosures, and the lender said soon. When we got 3 or 4 days out, I asked again if we were going to be able to close on time, and they said yes. When we got to 2 days, I asked again about the closing disclosures and asked if we would close on time without them, they said yes...
Friday came and they called and said "sorry, we can't close because the closing disclosures were not delivered 3 days ago" So, we ended up closing the coming Monday. This delay caused us to have to have a few additional nights of hotel (which was very expensive last minute) and costs to extend the delivery date of our storage pods, and not to mention the frustration of bringing this to their attention multiple times and them still messing it up. I am sure the sellers had costs they incurred as well.
All I can find online is that they are required to deliver the closing disclosures 3 days prior to closing, but I don't see anything about consequences for the lender if they don't do that. Does anyone know if we have any recourse with our lender?
This is on top of our lender paying a property tax bill that was not ours out of our escrow and us getting a letter from the County to show that the county sent the check back (since it was clearly not our bill to pay) and the bank can't seem to figure out how to refund us the $2,500...I'm so fed up with them.
Thanks for any input!
I'm a dual citizen between the US and a Caribbean country called Trinidad and I do have my License there. I hope this means I can be exempt from the extra step of taking the Traffic Law and Substance Abuse Education (TLSAE/DATA) course. I say this because I've seen the following on the County Tax Collector's website.
"Drivers who have never held —or do not have in their possession— a driver's license from any other state, country or jurisdiction, must complete a Traffic Law and Substance Abuse Education (TLSAE) course before applying for a license in Florida."
So with this out of the way, and just the Written exam and Road test to complete, any idea how many days it should all take to receive my license?
I sell homemade baked goods such as pies, cookies, brownies, banana bread, etc to people in the DMV. I live in Montgomery County.
I don't have a business license or anything of that nature. I have a website set up and the payment feature added this statement saying "you're legally required to keep track of taxes blah blah" stuff like that and it freaked me out.
I'm not doing anything significant, under 500 bucks so far. Should I be worried about taxes and licenses if I join farmer's markets?
If it matters, I plan to sell in NOVA and DC as well as Maryland.
Why is switching your CDL to texas such a pain. I have to get my car that I haven’t touched in months( I’m otr) inspected then go to county office to pay taxes then register my car before I can switch my CDL over…. Plus their offices are appointment only meaning I have to wait weeks to find a spot. Smh
Only have 30 days to register cars/new ID’s but next available appointment was July 6th. Figure i’ll go on saturday to try and get my ID so I can go to the county assessor to get my tax exemptions for registration. How bad is it on saturdays? is there one i’d have better luck at over the others?
Also what’s the late fee’s? I’m assuming they’ll still charge me those even though they are appointment only and backed up 1.5 months
I've been shopping for a car at dealerships and these fees are getting out of control. I've come across dealership fees in the 4 figures, electronic registration fee, document fees, delivery fees (for vehicles already on the lot), and other creatively named BS fees.
I thought I'd found a good price on a used vehicle, but the fees took it from 18k to 21k before tax.
Tax, tag, and title vary by the customer or county, and that money is going to the government, not the dealership. I get that.
Anything else is just additional profit for the dealership, though.
I'd love to see a law requiring them to only advertise the final before T,T,&T price. I can't see why anyone, other than dealerships, would be against this.
Am I missing something?