"Specifically, the grant application requires a co-applicant entity with whom the applicant (village) wishes to consolidate, meaning the applicant must have some idea of what could be consolidated before even filling out the application. Does the Town of Sweden really want to collaborate with us on this grant and absorb the village? The grant also requires a percentage of matching funds, and, "in order to receive full funding, awardees must present the findings from any re-organization studies/plans to the public and such re-organization studies/plans must be adopted by the governing board(s)."
This grant, and its details, were never discussed with the village trustees; we only learned of it secondhand, when it was, with no input from any of us, put on the agenda for a board vote."
In the same issue of the Suburban News an article by Kristina Gabalski reports on several issues the Mayor is dealing with, one of which is this Citizen's Reorganization and Empowerment Act grant. Here is part of what Gabalski writes:
It is not clear why Mayor Castaneda did not discuss her proposal with the trustees prior to her proposal. It also is not clear whether Castaneda has discussed consolidation with the Town of Sweden.
Over the last couple of years the Village of Brockport has not had a good relationship with the Town of Sweden government which changed their ambulance contract from the Brockport Volunteer Ambulance Corps to Monroe Ambulance in an attempt to pressure the Village to turn over almost 5 million dollars in assets to the then proposed new Fire district which created another layer of government with taxing authority to the detriment of Village of Brockport and Town of Sweden Taxpayers.
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