Monroe Town Supervisor Gives Half-Hearted Response To Question Concerning Emergency Services

There is no official movement on forming a task force to explore paying the EMS and firefighters in the Monroe-Woodbury area, despite the Supervisor's comments.

At the January 17th, 2024, Monroe Town Board meeting, I submitted the following as part of the public comment period. The letter is concerning the resolution (a similar one is currently before the Town and Village of Woodbury, as well as the Monroe-Woodbury School board), that would provide a 10% tax exemption for people in the area who volunteer as firefighters and EMS workers.

“I fully support implementation of the 10% tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and EMS workers in both Monroe and Woodbury. I'd like to thank Supervisor Cardone for his efforts in lobbying the state government to expand this exemption to include volunteers who live in rental properties in our community. As Cardone pointed out at a recent Board of Education Meeting, the proposed tax exemption would not help recruit young volunteers because of my generation's ongoing financial challenges, which have resulted in many of us to be unable to purchase homes of our own.

That said, I am urging the Town Board to form…