From: Steve Sick
To: all the residents of Cohocton
I want to thank everyone who voted for me in the primary election. It's great to know that so many people came out to vote and so many showed they care about the future of our town.
We still have the general election to go and I want you to know some serious facts before you make your final decision on November 6th.
Our present town supervisor is telling us we are to get a $725,000 payment in January '08. There is no signed PILOT program to date. The Host agreement is all based on a PILOT program being in place. There is no Host agreement for the Dutch Hill project. The first payment to be made is $507,500 and then they take out the cost of the building permits. Why would our supervisor agree to a contract that states that the Cohocton project will get 21 turbines or less, with up to 4 years to complete the rest of the turbines without any penalties? And the host paper states that UPC can terminate this agreement on or before September 1, 2008 without any reason at all!
Our town supervisor made a statement that he will cut our town taxes by 30%. The town board can only cut TOWN taxes not the county, school, village or fire district taxes. What does a 30% reduction of your town taxes amount to?
In the proposed Town of Cohocton budget, Jack shows a $161,615 amount for local PILOT payments. What happened to the $725,000 Host payment? What kind of hidden costs are there in this project that we as taxpayers are paying for? In the highway budget there is an additional $199,000 for 2008. Is this money for town maintenance of the turbine access roads?
Please go to the Town Hall to read the Host agreement. We all need to be informed!
Please vote the Independent Line on November 6th and vote for a better Cohocton!!
Thank you again,
Steven M. Sick
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