Comments for Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:22:33 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on 3-26-12 Comm. Burke to SOS by News Flash: PY Chronicle Express on the Middlesex IRA | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2256#comment-309 News Flash: PY Chronicle Express on the Middlesex IRA | Save our Surroundings Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:22:33 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2256#comment-309 [...] 3-26-12 Comm. Burke to SOS [...] [...] 3-26-12 Comm. Burke to SOS [...]

]]> Comment on In Your Face x 7 by OPWDD Smoking Gun? | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2276#comment-169 OPWDD Smoking Gun? | Save our Surroundings Mon, 21 May 2012 00:19:15 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2276#comment-169 [...] In Your Face x 7 [...] [...] In Your Face x 7 [...]

]]> Comment on PY Chronicle Express 2-8-12 by Update from Lynn Lersch | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1677#comment-87 Update from Lynn Lersch | Save our Surroundings Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:19:02 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1677#comment-87 [...] PY Chronicle Express 2-8-12 [...] [...] PY Chronicle Express 2-8-12 [...]

]]> Comment on Emergency Meetings by Update from Lynn Lersch | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?p=674#comment-86 Update from Lynn Lersch | Save our Surroundings Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:07:42 +0000 http://newkind.hopto.org/rt/solarsentinel/?p=674#comment-86 [...] at our very first Emergency SOS meeting  on January 28th, we prioritized 3 actions:  to do our best to help the displaced population of  [...] [...] at our very first Emergency SOS meeting  on January 28th, we prioritized 3 actions:  to do our best to help the displaced population of  [...]

]]> Comment on 2-01-12 Multer Opposition Stated by Emergency Meetings | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1712#comment-80 Emergency Meetings | Save our Surroundings Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:26:36 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1712#comment-80 [...] 2-01-12 Multer Opposition Stated [...] [...] 2-01-12 Multer Opposition Stated [...]

]]> Comment on 3-28-12 Answer Letter from Sen. O’Mara / Assemblyman Palmesano to Commissioner Burke by Emergency Meetings | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2116#comment-79 Emergency Meetings | Save our Surroundings Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:24:17 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2116#comment-79 [...] 3-28-12 Answer Letter from Sen. O’Mara / Assemblyman Palmesano to Commissioner Burke [...] [...] 3-28-12 Answer Letter from Sen. O’Mara / Assemblyman Palmesano to Commissioner Burke [...]

]]> Comment on In Your Face x 7 by Big Concern: 6166 So. Vine Valley Rd. | Save our Surroundings http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2276#comment-78 Big Concern: 6166 So. Vine Valley Rd. | Save our Surroundings Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:08:41 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2276#comment-78 [...] In Your Face x 7 [...] [...] In Your Face x 7 [...]

]]> Comment on 3-26-12 Comm. Burke to SOS by VineValleyGrapes http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2256#comment-72 VineValleyGrapes Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:59:15 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=2256#comment-72 Copied VineValleyGrapes comment to C. Burke: VineValleyGrapes | Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 9:31 pm edit Commissioner Burke, I am pleased that you at least responded to our correspondence. However, your response feels like a political response and with respect to you and your office in my opinion …”Garbage”… anyone aware of the truth of what has happened and what is slated to happen knows better. Your letter uses smoke and mirror responses and does not address the real situation as to what has actually occurred . The primary reason this initiative began was because a family member of a resident of the Middlesex home under great duress “had no where else to go ” and wound up speaking to me. For no other reason except I happened to be in the right place at the right time. There is no way that the State of New York or your office “honored and supported each person and their family throughout the placement process”….it never happened and there is proof of that. I know that you have a tough job…but at the end of the day you are expected to “Walk the Walk” and your “People First” is who you should be. You and your initiative have fallen off your own created path. There is not anyone that does not know that this action is fiscally driven at the expense of the people you were supposed to protect. I respectfully request that you go back and look at your goals and the actual results of your decisions. Perhaps you do not realize the impact your decisions have….Perhaps it’s time to actually consider the people you affect…we matter and should be considered first and your budget second. Please return our residents to their home….it is the right thing to do and it truly does put “People First”. You work for the people. Please listen. Respectfully, Middlesex Resident Copied VineValleyGrapes comment to C. Burke:
VineValleyGrapes | Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 9:31 pm edit
Commissioner Burke,

I am pleased that you at least responded to our correspondence. However, your response feels like a political response and with respect to you and your office in my opinion …”Garbage”… anyone aware of the truth of what has happened and what is slated to happen knows better. Your letter uses smoke and mirror responses and does not address the real situation as to what has actually occurred . The primary reason this initiative began was because a family member of a resident of the Middlesex home under great duress “had no where else to go ” and wound up speaking to me. For no other reason except I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

There is no way that the State of New York or your office “honored and supported each person and their family throughout the placement process”….it never happened and there is proof of that. I know that you have a tough job…but at the end of the day you are expected to “Walk the Walk” and your “People First” is who you should be. You and your initiative have fallen off your own created path. There is not anyone that does not know that this action is fiscally driven at the expense of the people you were supposed to protect. I respectfully request that you go back and look at your goals and the actual results of your decisions. Perhaps you do not realize the impact your decisions have….Perhaps it’s time to actually consider the people you affect…we matter and should be considered first and your budget second. Please return our residents to their home….it is the right thing to do and it truly does put “People First”.

You work for the people. Please listen.

Respectfully,

Middlesex Resident

]]> Comment on A Welcome to SOS Blog by moved http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1638#comment-47 moved Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:32:00 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1638#comment-47 Laurie Mark | Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 10:12 pm edit The poem ends with: Turn your back on the city, leave worry behind Cast away all your troubles and ills, For you will find comfort, peace and rest, In Vine Valley here in the hills. The poem refers to the picturesque south east side of Canandaigua Lake. Vine Valley is located between Bare and South Hills. The beauty and peacefulness of this area will be changing quickly. As told to the residents of the community, the State home on 6166 South Vine Valley Road may soon become a medium security housing for level 2 and 3 sex offenders. Apparently, the current facility which housed developmentally disabled members of the community, was unsafe and did not meet fire codes. The current residents, one of which resided for 17 years at this facility, has already been relocated. I feel as though the current residents are being treated as “throwaways.” The house is located a quarter a mile from a public beach, boat launch, church, a seasonal family mobile home park, a seasonal camp for adults and many homes and cottages. I pay to enjoy the luxury of living in this area, what gives these people the same privilege I have? The peace and safety I felt in this community will soon be gone. Please encourage everyone you know to attend the next town meeting on February 18, 2012 at The Middlesex Fire Department at 10:00 a.m . Laurie Mark | Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 10:14 pm edit Here is the email address to Commissioner: Commissioners.Correspondence.Unit@opwdd.ny.gov Laurie Mark | Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 10:12 pm edit
The poem ends with:
Turn your back on the city, leave worry behind
Cast away all your troubles and ills,
For you will find comfort, peace and rest,
In Vine Valley here in the hills.
The poem refers to the picturesque south east side of Canandaigua Lake. Vine Valley is located between Bare and South Hills.
The beauty and peacefulness of this area will be changing quickly. As told to the residents of the community, the State home on 6166 South Vine Valley Road may soon become a medium security housing for level 2 and 3 sex offenders. Apparently, the current facility which housed developmentally disabled members of the community, was unsafe and did not meet fire codes. The current residents, one of which resided for 17 years at this facility, has already been
relocated. I feel as though the current residents are being treated as “throwaways.” The house is located a quarter a mile from a public beach, boat launch, church, a seasonal family mobile home park, a seasonal camp for adults and many homes and cottages. I pay to enjoy the luxury of living in this area, what gives these people the same privilege I have? The peace and safety I felt in this community will soon be gone.

Please encourage everyone you know to attend the next town meeting on February 18, 2012 at The Middlesex Fire Department at 10:00 a.m .

Laurie Mark | Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 10:14 pm edit
Here is the email address to Commissioner:

Commissioners.Correspondence.Unit@opwdd.ny.gov

]]> Comment on A Welcome to SOS Blog by moved http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1638#comment-46 moved Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:29:58 +0000 http://sos-news.com/?page_id=1638#comment-46 Notinvinevalley | Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 1:58 am edit Albany County prohibits registered sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school or child care facility. Broome County’s law prohibits registered sex offenders from maintaining a residence, either permanently or temporarily, within 1,000 feet of any school grounds, and facility or institution primarily used for the care or treatment of persons under the age of 18 or public park. The Town of Chenango, located in the County, also adopted this language. The Village of Franklinville in Cattaraugus County provides that sex offenders shall not newly occupy any real property, acquire any real property by lease or otherwise or establish a place of lodging within ¼ mile of a school, daycare center or playground, park or school grounds. The City of Dunkirk in Chautauqua County prohibits registered level 2 and 3 sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, a nursery school, pre-school, child care facility, playground or park. The Town of Amherst in Erie County has a similar law. The Village of Depew and the Town of Aurora in Erie County use 1,500 feet rather than 1,000 feet as the measure of distance for residency restrictions. The Town of Lancaster, also in Erie County, 1,500 is used for the residency restriction and in addition to schools listed above, it prohibits sex offenders from residing near teen clubs, ten centers, Boy & Girls Clubs, YMCA facilities, town parks and playgrounds and any other structure or open space where minors congregate for sponsored, programmed activities and any community centers where minor congregate. Restrictions in the Town of Cheektowaga and the Village of Sloan include dance halls and skating rinks, and the Town of Elma chose to use 2,000 for their distance requirement. The Towns of Brandt and Eden as well as the Village of Blasdell add a prohibition on residency within 1,500 feet of a church which operates any child or youth centered program, and the Town of Hamburg restricts residency within 1,500 feet of swimming pools. The Village of East Rockaway in Nassau County prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of ay school, place of worship, child day-care center, community center, public library, public park, playground and other recreational facility as well as another registered sex offender. The Village of Waterloo in Seneca County adds a residency restriction near land operated as a camp. A number of the local laws also prohibit registered sex offenders from maintaining employment within 1,000 feet of specified areas where children are likely to congregate (see for example Rockland and Saratoga Notinvinevalley | Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 2:00 am edit Could town of Middlesex have a new playground or daycare. Near said add. harris | Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 12:21 pm edit Dear “NotinVineValley” — you have made some wonderful points and we’d like to pursue them further with you, including anything we might learn about how such legislation of restricted zones gets passed, when NYS seems to claim no local municipalities can restrict them at all. Please email to info@barn-aweigh.com to share whatever you can on this subject. Thanks! Notinvinevalley | Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 1:58 am edit
Albany County prohibits registered sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school or child care facility. Broome County’s law prohibits registered sex offenders from maintaining a residence, either permanently or temporarily, within 1,000 feet of any school grounds, and facility or institution primarily used for the care or treatment of persons under the age of 18 or public park. The Town of Chenango, located in the County, also adopted this language. The Village of Franklinville in Cattaraugus County provides that sex offenders shall not newly occupy any real property, acquire any real property by lease or otherwise or establish a place of lodging within ¼ mile of a school, daycare center or playground, park or school grounds. The City of Dunkirk in Chautauqua County prohibits registered level 2 and 3 sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, a nursery school, pre-school, child care facility, playground or park. The Town of Amherst in Erie County has a similar law. The Village of Depew and the Town of Aurora in Erie County use 1,500 feet rather than 1,000 feet as the measure of distance for residency restrictions. The Town of Lancaster, also in Erie County, 1,500 is used for the residency restriction and in addition to schools listed above, it prohibits sex offenders from residing near teen clubs, ten centers, Boy & Girls Clubs, YMCA facilities, town parks and playgrounds and any other structure or open space where minors congregate for sponsored, programmed activities and any community centers where minor congregate. Restrictions in the Town of Cheektowaga and the Village of Sloan include dance halls and skating rinks, and the Town of Elma chose to use 2,000 for their distance requirement. The Towns of Brandt and Eden as well as the Village of Blasdell add a prohibition on residency within 1,500 feet of a church which operates any child or youth centered program, and the Town of Hamburg restricts residency within 1,500 feet of swimming pools. The Village of East Rockaway in Nassau County prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of ay school, place of worship, child day-care center, community center, public library, public park, playground and other recreational facility as well as another registered sex offender. The Village of Waterloo in Seneca County adds a residency restriction near land operated as a camp. A number of the local laws also prohibit registered sex offenders from maintaining employment within 1,000 feet of specified areas where children are likely to congregate (see for example Rockland and Saratoga

Notinvinevalley | Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 2:00 am edit
Could town of Middlesex have a new playground or daycare. Near said add.

harris | Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 12:21 pm edit
Dear “NotinVineValley” — you have made some wonderful points and we’d like to pursue them further with you, including anything we might learn about how such legislation of restricted zones gets passed, when NYS seems to claim no local municipalities can restrict them at all. Please email to info@barn-aweigh.com to share whatever you can on this subject. Thanks!

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