Southern York County Life

Is everyone prepared for the 33% property tax increase being handed down by the county commissioners?

At this point I don’t know which is worse.
The 33% tax increase or the fact that the INS in their infinite wisdom will take the $65.00/inmates housed in York and instead send them to the $140.00/inmate New Jersey prisons.

The people who approved these transfers need to be fired. Without discussion.
Then the federal government should be asking York County to take even more prisoners at the bargain rate of $65.00/inmate.

I would suggest everyone write letters to their State representatives in the federal government, their representative in Harrisburg.
You could try to let the folks in York know of your disappointment too, but I suspect they will learn their fates come election day.

Jeff Bruening

I read that the commissioners were agreeable to housing INS prisoners for $45 a day compared to the old $65 a day rate. If the prison warden had not tampered with the figures of prisoners housed and the commissioners had not approved housing more prisoners than the limit they would not owe the INS milliions of dollars. Perhaps tampering with the prisoner figures is why the prison warden received the hefty pay increase he did last year making him the highest paid prison warden in the state. The warden claimed that he had more prisoners in his prison than any other prison in the entire state. I find that difficult to believe considering Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are densely populated compared to York county.

It is doubtful that the commissioners would be interested in hearing comments from the public expressing their disappointment.

As one commissioner candidate said in last Sunday’s newspaper the commissioners should not have depended upon money they didn’t have in hand so they could spend money on pet projects like the multimillion dollar court house built on contaminated soil.

I read in the local newspaper that a couple of people attended the commissioners meeting last week and expressed their disappointment and were threatened by the commissioners that they would be escorted out of the meeting if they didn’t lower their voices.

You are right about the commissioners learning their fate on election day. Perhaps this is why commissioner Glass is not seeking re-election though she cites her reason for not running is medical.

One commissioner told the local newspapers that he planned on running for re-election. This is the same commissioner that was reported in the newspapers that he was prohibited by law from seeking re-election because he was appointed to fill a vacancy created on the commissioner board by the death of a commissioner.

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The county should not be in the business of housing federal INS prisoners to start with, let alone counting on this questionable revenue to supplement the budget, this is just poor county management. The use of taxpayers money for this upcoming baseball stadium is just another example of the same. Remember is not the counties money or the commissioners money they are wasting away...IT"S YOURS!
It’s time for new responsible commissioners.

There are a lot of things the county should not be in the business of doing.

The time for new commissioners is long overdue!

It appears county residents are going to get their wish-- 3 new commissioners. This morning’s newspaper headline said that all 3 commissioners will not be running again.

3 new commissioners this year! Maybe we could get a few of the INS detainees on a work release type program to fill the 3 new positions? This would save some $$$ and fiscal management counldn’t be any worse.   

3 new commissioners next year. All 3 commissioners have to serve out their term in office through the end of the year.

I know you are being sarcastic but I doubt if anyone would want any of the INS detainees on a work release type program until their backgrounds are checked. This is a serious problem in that the backgrounds of the INS detainees are not checked. Think about it for a minute, their own country doesn’t want them. Is it because in their own country they may be murderers or rapists or have committed some other type of serious crime.

There are a couple of attorneys in the country that have done pro bono work for INS detainees which was published in the newspaper a while back. Where are these pro bono attorneys when law abiding citizens have been charged with a crime they may or may not have committed?

I was being sarcastic and I have thought about!
You are right, their own country probably does not want them for the reasons you describe, problem is we to in this country have too many lowlifes running around free who are guilty of the exact same crimes and until we wise up as a people and eliminate these people from society then we will continue to suffer.

There is a lot of truth to your post!

Unfortunately the way the law works is that taxpayers are supposed to pay to rehabilitate them not annihilate them. If they were in the great state of Texas as Bush, Jr. calls his home state they would be annihilated.