It was a sad evening for Brookfield. The Constitution took TWO good hits this evening…. All dealt by our LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS.
STRIKE ONE: Taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!. The Board caved as was generally expected. Albany and the Town Assessor call the shots in Brookfield. The Town Board has no authority. It’s the Assessor’s decision whether or not to postpone the revaluation and she refuses to change it. It’s up to us, the TAXPAYERS to “use the system”. Frankly, it’s the system USING US and our Town Board is standing back to let it happen. What ever happened to NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION?
STRIKE TWO: There goes “FREE SPEECH" Say GOOD-BY to the Town website's “GUEST BOOK”. Councilman Dewitt Head complained that he was hearing negative things about recent comments made on the site and passed a resolution to shut down the GUEST BOOK. Now, all comments must go to “YOUR VOICE” and will be monitored by Aaron Boise.
It was a very sad evening, indeed.
