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What Would You Ask Town Hall?

While Patch reports on Town of Smithtown news, we'd like to know what you'd like to ask of the local government officials.

Here at Patch we like to cover all facets of the town, from school news to new or closing businesses, the accolades of prominent figures and more, but one specific area that we take pride in covering is news coming from Town Hall.

Scroll through the site and you'll see numerous stories revolving around the Town of Smithtown – some impacting specific towns within the township, others affecting all locals. We even provide breakdowns of agendas from the town's numerous meetings, from town board to the planning board and the board of zoning appeals. 

Although we ask town officials questions at these meetings and outside of town hall, it's not always feasible for locals to make meetings and address these officials themselves.

We'd like to know what you would ask your local elected political figures. Please feel free to start the discussion in the comments section.

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KFM May 21, 2013 at 04:17 pm
How, in a period of rapidly declining enrollment, can costs be increasing so much from year to year,Read More you ask? The answer is in front of you in black and white. I urge you to READ your district’s budget: we are funding retirements when many of us cannot afford to fund our own during difficult economic times. These wheels were set in motion by contracts negotiated in times of unrealistic growth that may likely not occur again. It is time to open up these plans and relieve this unfair burden from our shoulders. Whatever other measures are pursued in order to control costs, including consolidation within and eventually with other districts, are never going to be enough if you cannot get this problem corrected. Write your congressman, for the love of God. If you need any more incentive to do so, please go to http://rocdocs.democratandchronicle.com/database/teacher-pensions-new-york and look at what Smithtown’s retirees are collecting MONTHLY. It will sicken you.
KFM May 21, 2013 at 04:12 pm
They are allowed to exclude the pension and employee benefit increases when expressing the increase.Read More
Billie B May 20, 2013 at 10:17 am
Tomorrow is the vote..vote NO NOW or our taxes are going to continue to sky rocket. Unless we doRead More something this town will continue to spiral down. More taxes aren't going to help. We need to cut expenses and get ourselves on a fiscally responsible plan.