Given today's economy, coupled with the fact that many people are now living paycheck to paycheck and robbing Peter to pay Paul just to make ends meet, it would seem out illustrious PP Town Board and School District would care enough about us to offer to take our property + school tax in payments to help ease the burden. Sounds like a good idea, right?

Surrounding towns offer their residents a payment plan and I'm betting, those residents are much happier. Better yet, those same towns make a nice little profit by charging a per transaction charge which in turn they use for community improvements and whatnot.
Don't believe me? Please feel free to call the Tax Assessor's office in Poughkeepsie.

So then I ask, what seems to be the problem? Do we mean so little to the town that they could care less about the people who vote them into office? I always held the belief that a town board should have the resident's best interest in mind; they are, afterall, public servants so to speak. Seems to me that of late, our wishes have been and are falling on deaf ears. Shame on them.

In closing, I propose our elected officials start remembering who put them where they are, worry less about their tee-off times and actually give a damn.