F for Effort
40 second preface video link above.
When senior residents and the standing room only audience could not understand or hear Dan Howard (Amherst Planning Director), who works for the town of Amherst, discussing a project that will cost tens of millions in taxes and recently helped raise takes 11.42% - Howard decided to cop an ‘oh-well’ / ‘too bad’ attitude with them, laugh at them, and play woah is me ‘I’m not going to yell’.
Furthermore, town board member Jacqualine Berger blurted out, as if she is the residents’ kindergarten teacher, but thats usual behavior for Berger who would be a prime study for the Dunning-Kruger effect. By the way Jacqui, where are those cricket courts you gloated about advocating for for several years at Oakwood? Feel free to email the amherstbudgetminder@gmail.com what accomplishments if any you have done over the 6 years on the board.
Supervisor Brian Kulpa started yelling as if he doesn’t even want to be there after he snuck by a 11.42% tax hike onto families.
The Town of Amherst can afford to pay just one of Kulpa’s assistants $105k, hire many more $100k+ jobs that show little return to residents, raise taxes 33% over 6 years from fiscal irresponsibility, raise taxes 11.42% in one year for projects the public does not want, but cannot afford to fix a PA system to help the public hear what changes are being made to their town. This shows their true desire for “transparency”.
Dan Howard has been around for a long time. He knows the PA system is garbage. Yet he showed his true colors to residents when he got angry and talked dismissive to seniors - he showed that he is willing to put in little to no effort for the better of the residents, can get easily irritated when someone challenges him, and doesn’t care if people can hear what his planning department is pushing for to please Supervisor Kulpa.
If Dan Howard publicly shows his lack of care for residents like this, what goes behind closed doors?
Town Board & Dan Howard - everyone is now listening & will speak up if something doesn’t make sense or can not be understood, whether you want them to or like it.