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ROFLMAO....Yonkers City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino Is Melting Down And Reporting Dozens Of Yonkers Residents To Facebook, Because They Are Going On Social Media To Complain About The 6.2% Tax Hike His Democratic Majority Gave To Yonkers Seniors
DOESN"T WANT DIALOG: Sadly, There Are REAL Cases Of Cyber Bullying That Leads Some Youth to Commit Suicide, But City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino Want's To Abuse The System, Because He Wants To Censor The Many Diverse Voices In The City Of Hills.
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME:Cowardly Majority Leader Michael Sabitino Has Always Demanded That His Voice And Causes Get An Equal Voice, But Secretly He Sneaks Around Trying To Manipulate Public Forums so that others Can Not Be Heard, As Brave Young Men And Women Volunteer To Put Themselves In Harms Way To Protect Our First Amendment Rights
ANOTHER CORRUPT POLITICIAN: Yonkers City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino needs to understand that the only ones getting bullied are Yonkers seniors who now must come up with more than $560 in property taxes, while on a fixed income
LOL... Just wait till Yonkers property owners learn that they lost their big fat STAR EXEMPTION CHECKS, because City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and his dems voted to go over the 2% tax cap last month.
CAN'T TRUST SABATINO: The Truth Is That The Self Centered, Abusive And Greedy Michael Sabatino Is Intolerant Of Others And Has Been Hiding The Truth From Yonkers Seniors For Years - And Now Sabatino The Censor Is Melting Down, Because Real Reporting In The City Of Hills Is Pointing Out His Failures.
BTW: There wont Be Any News Updates On The Hyper Local "Yonkers Newswire" For Three Days, Because Of Michael Sabitino's Dirty Democratic Party Tricks
Please Read The Post Above And Decide If City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino Is Being Bullied Or Just Trying To Hide The Truth From Yonkers Homeowners Who Just Got Their Taxes Increased By 6.2% And Lost Their Star Exemption.
YONERS QUOTE: "New Yorkers overwhelmingly support the Child Victims Act that Senate Democrats have fought for years to advance and we will not allow a watered down version or a bill that lets predators avoid justice pass through the state Senate " said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers)
ROUNDUP VIDEO: Senate Democrats say they won't provide a single vote for the bill pushed by Sen. Catharine Young (R-Cattaraugus County).
ALBANY: The Child Victims Act bill is now doomed, because Senate Republicans control the chamber by a razor-slim majority — and are hampered now by one senator's absence for military service.
he GOP bill would create a $300 million state fund using asset forfeiture money currently controlled by the Manhattan district attorney's office to provide restitution to those found by hearing officers to have credible claims of abuse.
Supporters say it would help a broader range of survivors not just those attacked in places like schools and religious institutions.
But Senate Democrats and many advocates say it would let predators off the hook and is designed to make it look like the GOP is doing something on the issue as they head into the fall elections.
"This is like a half-hearted attempt to push the issue off their plate " said Sen. Brad Hoylman a Manhattan Democrat who is pushing a more comprehensive version of the Child Victims Act. "It's cynical beyond because it is really toying with people's personal tragedies."
The Hoylman bill that already has passed the Democratic-controlled Assembly the past two years would extend the time survivors have to bring criminal and civil cases while opening a one-year window to revive old cases time-barred under current law.
"New Yorkers overwhelmingly support the Child Victims Act that Senate Democrats have fought for years to advance and we will not allow a watered down version or a bill that lets predators avoid justice pass through the state Senate " said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers).
With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session the stalemate likely dooms chances of passage of a Child Victims Act survivors have sought for about a dozen years.
Some advocates say they will take their chances that the Democrats can win the Senate majority in the November elections and pass a full Child Victims Act when the new legislative session begins in January.Senate spokesman Scott Reif said the GOP conference is still discussing how to move forward on the issue.
TRY SOMETHING NEW: Christine Bitetti Is Inviting #Yonkers teens to make an appointment and play with the #YPL's newest laser engraver in tech central lab where teens can learn 21st century tech by doing fun things things like make a key chain.
YONKERS RESOURCE: High Tech 3D Printing is offered for free at the Riverfront Library, provided you have a Library card.
You can attend one of our 3D Printing classes and create your own key chain OR you can design or download a 3D file and email it to us (3dprinting@ypl.org) or bring it to the 3rd floor reference desk on a flashdrive.
The file should be in *.stl format.
3D Printing Policy
1. Staff will review and prepare all project files, and they have the right to refuse projects deemed harmful or otherwise objectionable.
2. Items must adhere to copyright restrictions.
3. No more than 3 requests per month.
4. We cannot promise specific colors will be available.
5. Please allow up to 5 business days to have objects printed. If there is a delay with your object, you will be notified.
6. You will be contacted when object is ready to be picked up. Items not picked up will become the property of the library and placed on display after 30 days.
7. If the object is delicate, you must remove your own rafts and supports.
8. File must be able to print in 5 hours or less.
9. Currently there is no cost for 3D printing at the Library.
10. This policy may change at any time. If you have questions, please speak with a staff member prior to undertaking your project or send an email to 3dprinting@ypl.org.
Downloading: 3D objects can be downloaded from tinkercad.com or thingiverse.com.
Our printers: We have two 3D printers: a Makerbot Replicator 2 (5th gen) and a FlashForge Creator Pro. Our printers use PLA (polylacticacid) filament, a bio-plastic made from cornstarch and sugar cane.
Colors: Colors change on a regular basis. If you have a specific color request for your item, we will do our best to accommodate you. Objects print in one solid color.
3D Printing classes are offered. Check our Tech Central calendar for dates and times.
For questions regarding 3D printing, contact the 3rd Floor Reference Desk at 914-375-7966.
DEM MAJORITY WINS OUT: This translates into an increase of about $560 for the average homeowner, but preserves essential city and school services. STATE AID: Gov. Andrew Cuomo's increase in state education aid of about $8.8 million allowed the school district to call off its more than 200 proposed layoffs . TAX INCREASE NEEDED: The city's additional 200 plus layoffs were averted by the property-tax increase. WHAT TAX CAP: The property-tax increase breaks the state tax-increase cap of 2 percent, which the City Council voted to do last month
SNOOZE 12 Wont Tell You This, But..... SCREW THE SENIORS: #PatronageJobsMatter In Yonkers IT GETS WORSE: Since City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and his dems went over the tax cap now Yonkers homeowners do not get the star rebate.
So now thanks to Michael Sabatino and his democratic majority Yonkers taxpayers get taxed more and then we lose the star rebate check
It is incredible, but City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino is making sure yonkers seniors get screwed twice so his husband Robert can keep his patronage job.
The property owners are paying for all of the Mayor’s family and friends “hires” like Michael Sabatino's husband.
Nothing happened at all to them and it will stay the same.
Be prepared again for next year.
The good news is that Michael Sabatino has been promised a patronage job when he terms out of his city council seat next year.
So what really happened with all of City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino's meetings – NOTHING. It is disgraceful!!
LOL... The problem is that for some mysterious reason, Michael Sabatino doesn't ink slips to all the patronage freeloaders are in order.
Michael Sabatino refuses to say that nepotism and the connected jobs have to end, because city hall insiders say he has been promised a patronage job when he is termed out next year.
Michael Sabatino often says he wont raise taxes on his senior citizens, but when it comes time to vote he does exactly what the mayor's office tells him to do.
The truth is that Michael Sabatino's political career is done, because he stabbed Yonkers seniors in the back.
Right now Michael Sabatino is just working to make sure his husband's Yonkers patronage job will remain secure, until he is appointed to his own "friends and family" job next year.
ROFLMAO..... Why are Yonkers seniors so mad at City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino? LOL... Didn't Michael Sabatino help cut countless ribbons, give out proclamations, raise flags and try to get as many photo opportunities as possible?
All Michael Sabatino's personal, beneficial political pandering PR is making seniors sick now that their taxes went up 6.2% and Yonkers homeowners lost their star exemptions.
Michael Sabatino's duties should have been focused on fiscal management and making sure that the taxpayers money is being spent efficiently and wisely, but he was focused on creating yet another taxpayer funded festival.
After all the line by line budget analysis Michael Sabatino claims to have done, where is the savings?
During the budget hearings, Michael Sabatino basically came off looking like a Spano puppet, who was only focused on saving his husband Robert's patronage job.
In the hearings Michael Sabatino said little and seemed to be counting days to his term ends, so he can collect his promised patronage job.
Are any of the patronage or nepotism jobs eliminated by City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and his dems?
NO!
Was anywaste or inefficiency, eliminated by City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and his dems?
NO again, #disgusting!!
Michael Sabatino is the one of the biggest reason homeowners have a $560 tax increase and have lost their star exemption, because the city went over the tax cap.
Year after year after year Michael Sabatino voted for all of the budgets and patronage that created this fiscal crises that gave third district seniors a 6.2% tax increase.
The budget was the one job Michael Sabatino was elected to do, but he #FAILED, because he did not want his husband Robert to lose his patronage job.
Democratic City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino is pushing out honest hardworking families and senirs, just to protect his husband Robert's job.
This budget was inherited from years of Michael Sabatino's failed democratic leadership.
Michael Sabatino-is just a Spano soldier, who doesn't give a crap about seniors in the third district, because he has been promised a patronage job, when his term ends.
Just wait till the poorer members of democrat Michael Sabatino's third district figure out that their rents are going up 6.2% as well, landlords cannot afford to absorb this kind of tax increase.
City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino should go get his democratic funded "Yonkers Voice" Pedo Pal #RuiBenros and Anthony Nicodemo have a "Parade Of Lunatics" saying, "Hooray! We screwed Yonkers seniors again!!!!"
It is horrible to see everything that Yonkers taxpayers detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of Michael Sabatino's Yonkers democratic party.
Let’s not forget that this is not just a one time tax from City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino
Yonkers seniors will be paying this each and every year that they stay in their homes, plus any new taxes City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino wishes to bestow on them next year.
"Yonkers Roundup" Editor Brian Harrod Interviews Yonkers Entrepreneur And Martial Arts Instructor Samer Marji of Animals MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Academy
PLEASE NOTE: The "#YonkersRoundup" Public Access Program producer London Reyes was not available for this episode and the video was recorded on the Sony ..mts video format, which had to be converted to mp4 video for YouTube upload. Some video quality was lost in the conversion.
Samer Marji Says There are many reasons people train at Animals MMA:
• #SelfDefense
• Confidence
• #WeightLoss
• Getting in Shape
• Discipline
• #MMACompetitions
• Grappling Tournaments
• Social and Community Events
Animals MMA's and Samer Marji's mission is always to allow the student to set their own goals, to develop their own vision of what they want to achieve.
Does Animals MMA make #champions?
Yes, Samer Marji and his team of trainers have several belt holders in various weight classes.
Animals MMA and Samer Marji also recognizes that not everyone wants to get in a cage and become the next Mixed Martial Arts Champion of the world
Animals MMA owner Samer Marji will never put any of his students in a situation they do not want to be in.
However; Samer Marji will challenge you.
Samer Marji will push you out of your comfort zone at times, when he feelsyou need it, because that is where personal growth happens.
The facility is a 10,000 square foot facility with a full cage, full #boxing ring, about 3000 square feet of mat space, showers, lockers, and sauna.
#AnimalsMMA has designated parking spaces and they are within a mile and a half from all major parkways.
TOP STORY: As Yonkers' Getty square homelessness grows, the crisis may emerge as a major issue in the next mayoral race
This problem has been left unaddressed for decades in #Yonkers.
However, Yonkers City Councilwoman Shanae Natalee Williams is now heading a city council committee on homelessness.
Among the Yonkers' progressives and the progressive wing of the local Democratic Party, homelessness is rising on the agenda.
With about one quarter of Westchester County's homeless population, the problem could emerged as major issue in next year's mayoral race
The homeless problem could even effect county legislator races, and local city council races.
Most of the candidates agree that the Yonkers' chronic shortage of affordable housing and Westchester County poorly run bare bones homeless programs contributing to the increasing homeless population.
Today, homeless individuals sleeping on benches, doorways, sidewalks, in parks and in ATM lobbies are common sights in Getty Square.
Some of those people get off the street and into homeless shelters, but hurdles to building more and a chronic shortage of affordable housing in Yonkers is only exacerbating the situation.
It's about time Westchester County steps in and takes its proper role to take care of Yonkers' most vulnerable and to clean up the streets in the city of hills.
IN THE STUDIO: "Yonkers Newswire" Editor Brian Harrod Will Be Interviewing Yonkers Entrepreneur And City Councilman John Rubbo On The "Yonkers Roundup" Public Access Program.
John Rubbo is a lifelong resident of Yonkers and was was elected to his first term as Yonkers City Councilmember and was sworn in January 1, 2018 to represent the 4th Council District.
John Rubbois a small business owner who operates Yonkers Brewing Co. located on the Yonkers Waterfront.
John Rubbo, continues to support many local organizations in Yonkers and across the region.
John Rubbo has previously served on the Board of Directors’ of the Police Athletic League of Yonkers as well as the Yonkers Downtown/Waterfront BID.
John Rubbo and his wife Dawn, also a Yonkers native, live off of McLean Avenue with their two children, Dominic and John
John Rubbo's family and my own family also attend St John The Baptist Church On Yonkers Avenue.
YONKERS HISTORY: : Cross County Shopping Center, also known as Cross County Center, is an open-air shopping mall located in #Yonkers.
The mall hosts over 100 stores and restaurants, including anchor stores Macy's, Old Navy and Sears.
The Cross County Shopping Center abuts the smaller Mall at Cross County.
Cross County Shopping Center opened in 1954 as the first mall in Westchester County. Its parking lot was built atop a former peat bog.
The 72-acre site included a hospital in the middle of the mall campus complete with a rooftop helipad the Cross County Hospital closed in the early 1980s.
The original anchor stores were Gimbels (later Stern's, now Macy's), John Wanamaker (now Sears), and F. W. Woolworth Company. Woolworth operated a main store and a garden store in the mall (the former is now mall space, while the latter was converted to Odd-Job Trading before becoming Old Navy).
Starting in 2008, the Cross County Shopping Center underwent a new development and upgrade, which was completed in 2012
The huge building that now houses Macy's Department Store (that was initially Gimbel's and then Stern's) has been enlarged by one third. It also features a new covered parking lot that is almost as large as the store; the underground loading complex has also been enlarged.
The former Cross County Hospital and Office Tower was converted into a Hyatt Place Hotel.
The eight floor, 155 guest room, 60,000 square foot lodging opened 2015.
In 2011, Red Lobster opened, and in 2015, Olive Garden, and Longhorn Steakhouse restaurants opened
The Cross County Shopping Center was originally named "Cross County Center"; the shorter name can still be seen on older signs. However, newer signs now say "Cross County Shopping Center" as does the mall's official website
Adjacent to the Cross County Shopping Center and to its south (at 750 Central Park Avenue) is an indoor, air conditioned mall called The Mall at Cross County, which hosts a variety of stores and restaurants, and a large covered parking garage.
IN THE STUDIO: Today CSEA President Lionel Turner Turner Will Be In The Studio To Update His 1500 Yonkers Union Members And The Community On The Recent City Of Yonkers Budget Crises
TRUE LEADERSHIP: Lionel Turner Was Able To Save Each Every CSEA Union Job That Was Threatened By Mayor Mike Spano And The City Council's Budgets Without Having To Give Up One Benefit Or Or Previously Negotiated Right.
YONKERS MAN: Lionel Turner was raised in #Yonkers since 1966. He went to P.s 25 and the to Gorton jr high school graduated 1977 and went to Delaware State College and then City College.
Lionel Turner is former entrepenuer who owned the Hideaway bar and has worked at the Yonkers Board Of Education for 22 years.
For the last 5 years Lionel Turner has been the President of Yonkers CSEA 9169 and the 1st Vice president CSEA local 860.
"I want to collaborate and we're going to work across the aisle." - City Council President Mike Khader
PUBLIC ACCESS TV: Local Attorney Former CIA Intelligence Official And First Time Elected Official, Mike Khader, Will Discuss The Contentious Budget Process And Give A Full Update To #Yonkers Residents
City Council President Mike Khader was scheduled to hold a budget adoption meeting Thursday night, but he and the other council members called new budget hearings to be added.
Council President Mike Khader may hold a budget vote on Wednesday if a deal can be made to save some or all of the city jobs.
But Wednesday, is not a hard and fast deadline, if City Council President Mike Khader thinks more budget reviews and negotiations are needed.
10 years ago when Yonkers faced similar financial crises during the "2008 #GreatRecession", the City Council didn't adopt the budget until late June
In a packed city council budget meetings city employees spoke out against the cuts before Council President Mike Khader, Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and Minority Leader Mike Breen
As of right now, every department is on the chopping block with 30 #firefighter jobs, and as many as 70 Yonkers Police Department police officers.
Council President Mike Khader has been holding public forums to try and find a better plan for the city, but some officials have not been truly forth coming in the hearings.
"It's a balance between raising revenue and giving quality service to our residents. You can't get blood out of a stone. We have to collaborate and think outside the box and come up with solutions. I've said it many times, one layoff is one layoff too many," says Mike Khader
Yonkers City Council President Mike Khader and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano say it’s not going to be easy closing the budget gap.
Two weeks ago, the state comptroller's Local Government and School Accountability division reviewed the original version of Mayor Mike Spano's proposed budget.
State officials expressed a number of concerns related to a $5 million structural imbalance in the city's numbers, underestimated police and fire overtime, unappropriated money for textbooks and a reliance on draining reserve funds to close gaps in the budget.
Last Thursday, Board Of Education Trustee Edgar Santana, reported on Facebook that the Board of Education acted on a state recommendation and voted to empty the district's reserve fund by withdrawing $24 million to close a budget deficit.
Mike Khader, an attorney for the past 16 years, lives near Welty Park with his wife Rana and three children ages 7, 6 and 5. Two of his children attend the Casimir Pulaski School and a third attends a special-needs school.
Mike Khader was born in Yonkers and is the son of Jordanian immigrants, who came to the United States in 1964 and immediately settled in Yonkers.
Mike Khader calls himself a "moderate, middle-of-the road" Democrat. Whether there is a Democratic or Republican majority, Khader said he will lead the council in a bi-partisan fashion.
"You can govern two ways. You can govern partisan, saying that's a Democratic issues, that's a Republican issue, or you can govern by putting people first, putting taxpayers first," Mike Khader says
Please Read The Previous Story To Understand How Mike Khader Has Been Reaching Out During This Budget Crises
