unFAIR Plan Victims Heard In Court
The court case brought against Monroe County by the victims of the unFAIR plan hit the courts on Friday:
School districts in Monroe County have long said that a county plan to decrease their sales tax revenue by 50 percent is illegal.
On Friday, they had their day in court.
They argued that the county must continue to distribute sales tax revenue to its sharing partners — the school districts, the city of Rochester, towns and villages — as if the county continued to receive revenue from the full 4 percent charged to county shoppers.
But it wasn’t just the schools:
In the same courtroom Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Fisher also heard lawyers for 10 county residents argue that the County Legislature meeting held Sept. 26 should be invalidated because it did not follow the state’s Open Meetings Law. At that meeting, plans for a sales tax intercept program and a reduction in revenues to school districts were finalized.
Here’s the link to the Open Meetings Law. What do you think? Will Brooks/Minarik be able to weasel out of this one?
.50 cents…they violated the law, and they violated the law.
The victims will be validated. Minarik and Brook will tweak, and they’ll take it out on some unsuspecting victim, like the police department or the library.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
The judge ruled in favor of the Brooks manuever - on both counts. Unbelieveable.