Coverage of the Wellesley Inn COMIDA give-away
Channel 13 WHAM did a story this evening on the Wellesley Inn story we told you about earlier. It nails the details quite well:
Comida, the county’s development agency, offered a developer more than $300,000 in tax breaks to spiff up the Wellesley Inn in Brighton– with his promise of one new job.
That didn’t sit well with local labor. Terry Moore of Local 13 said, “This is not industrial development. Creating one, low-paying job is not industrial development. It’s not how we should be revitalizing our economy.”
The Town of Brighton also protested saying the developer shouldn’t get breaks on his town and school district taxes.
Tuesday Comida voted to approve the deal — with a compromise. Maggie Brooks offered a resolution allowing Brighton to avoid giving the developer property tax breaks. However, he still gets sales and mortgage tax breaks worth more than $200,000.
Related posts:
- What ever happened to the Wellesley Inn and the COMIDA money it didn’t deserve?
- Rochester has a local labor shortage - the folly of the Wellesley Hotel and COMIDA grants
- More on Brighton going after COMIDA
- With the certainty of a Kangaroo court, COMIDA approves Brighton Properties LLC application
- City News coverage of IDA and COMIDA
And who said it couldn’t get worse………..
Maggie said in Dec. 06 ” Most recently, we worked together to bring Florida-based CareGuide and 200 new jobs to Monroe County. ”
D&C reports today, “CareGuide Inc.announced today that between 20 and 25 workers will be laid off at the company’s call center in Henrietta.”
Say it isn’t so Ms. Magoo.
Good catch, H.S.T.