To The Editor:
Over the past two years everyone that either lives or has passed through the city of Fulton from the south entrance via route 481 has viewed our FREE demolition of the Nestle site.
Citizens have either read or heard about at least 4 target dates of the completion date and the start date of an Aldi store. Again, the demo was FREE.
During these past two years we have witnessed many loads of scrap metal being removed and piles of Construction Debris accumulate. It was for FREE.
We have seen most times anywhere from ONE person in an excavator to half dozen removing asbestos from the buildings. On occasion, a few loads being taken to the land fill. It was for FREE.
Now after two years of agony the contractor walks away after removing, who knows how much scrap metal and leaving us another mess to clean up.
It was for FREE.
Now some will say he knocked down 70% of the buildings. I say YES but he took 100% of the value of the scrap metal and only 5% of the CD material went to the landfill.
It was for FREE.
He also charged the city $230,000 for crushed bricks as fill for a parking lot. It also cost the city about $110,000 for the air monitoring. It was FREE.
Now enter the picture Rowlee Construction being paid by the city to clean up a mess left by the FREE contractor.
We have witnessed more activity at the Nestle site in the past week then we have in two years. We have witnessed Rowlee Construction remove more in a week than was ever removed in the past two years.
Rowlee is being paid.
The site is looking like a construction site instead of a bombed-out war zone.
Rowlee Construction is a class act.
Predictions are that it will cost the city the same amount of money to clean up the mess left by the FREE contractor and to demo the rest of the buildings as it would have cost in the beginning.
What did we lose, it was for FREE.
We lost the property tax revenue, the revenue from the sale of all the other sites.
Now that we have Rowlee construction on the job being paid we will start to see things coming together – the starting of Aldi and soon the demo of the rest of the site.
You get what you pay for!
Frank Castiglia Jr.
Taxpayer in the city of Fulton
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An excellent assessment of Fulton’s free lunch program.
I heard the first guy actually lost tons of money, and Rowlee got to make money.. hmmmm.. because the city was too cheap to pay someone in the first place.
Frank, show me a copy of a single check where we paid Infinity Enterprise anything for the demolition of the buildings.
Jim Myers-That was the point of the letter we paid for nothing and we got nothing…
Only about 12 people thought giving that contract to Infinity was a good deal. Six on the council and the other two at city hall. No wonder the city is in such big trouble.
We got 75% of the buildings torn down for free. I guess you would have had us spend over $4 million to have the buildings torn down
That’s how shallow your thinking is….the costs of cleaning up what he left is the costs…Frank is right…you pay for what you get…
Jim, The cost to clean up the mess of mixed CD/Asbestos that your FREE demo may cost us over 1 million dollars. Then we have to pay someone to do the rest…and he walked away with more than likely some where around $500,000($230,000 from us for bricks-and $270,000 in scrap metal) but it was FREE.
Frank, you use words like “may cost us” and “more then likely”. These are your opinions not factual figures. Let us know when you have some real facts. This isn’t CNN with fake news.
lets just say this,fulton used to be a city in which i was proud of,now even my alderman wont look at me ,wont wave ,nothing and i see him daily,hmmmm….maybe i hit a nerve,WHAT ABOUT OUR LAKE,oh wait lets clean up nestles,forget about the youths,build aldis,i need a new store NOT,,,but ant way raise the campground fees,so we can go camping near a rotten,scum filled lake,,this city is done guys face it,it has been run into the ground,ready to play taps and call it mayberry,and yes who ever said it,FULTON SUCKS,DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT STANDS FOR?blanked up ton on narcotics,hmmeven the boys who run mayberry are fighting over it LOVE IT
chris easy option for you is to move.
Well fulton resident that what a whole lot of people are doing, getting the hell out while the getting is good.
Well said Frank. You are absolutely correct in your assessment of the situation. Free isn’t always better.
Jim Myers…An opinion would be: it will cost us X amount of money, key would is “WILL”…a fact is : it may, or it might…and it is a fact that the costs may or will be. Please ask your tutor how to ans this one. Better yet. Why don’t you take a ride around your ward instead of hiding inside your house. You might learn something. Stop wasting taxpayer money on trying to figure out how to ans. me or someone else.
shared services from the start 2 years ago…..this county owns massive amounts of equipment and trucks to haul it away to OUR landfill…merging needs to happen period..fulton has got to start thinking outside the nestles box,many vacant parcels that aldis can develop in this city…..
ejb, I would agree completely but anyone handling the asbestos has to be certified and I think the city may not have anyone. There were many open sites but they only wanted one. It’s not the saving grace for the city of Fulton at all. If the whole site gets developed it will only bring in maybe $90 to $100 thousand in Tax money. The jobs is what will help. Some middle income jobs and a lot of low income and lots of PT jobs. Merging is the real ans. I agree.
hey fulton resident,must be to scared to use your name,hmmmm,well any way i dont own any property in this city nor will i ever,when my wife retires in 2 years WE WILL BE OUT OF MAYBERRY WHILE YOU SIT HERE AND WONDER oh what happen to our great little city,,,you must be scared,of the repercusion,im not come get me lets talk or is it you cant becouse i know to much b.s. wanna know about the home the city said they would never sell a multi family home,it should have been a one family home,im on you guys,get it together or get out of office
Oh for the love of Pete, I have a headache from trying to decipher misspelled words and jumbled sentences that run together …
Fulton has gone to hell in a hand basket and we have high taxes and too much negativity to blame for that …
When I moved here in 1973 I didn’t know anyone … over the years things began to bring life to this sleepy little city … Chocolatefest then Riverfest … we had game rooms and too many bars … I don’t recall seeing so many abandoned homes as there are now …
It “may” cost this or this “might” happen right? … well, until people start coming together with some ideas and working toward a better city , we are going to continue to fall into ruins …
North Bay needs a swimming pool so that kids came swim instead of there being nothing to do on a hot day … both the east side and west side pools were closed leaving NOTHING …
Instead of bitching and complaining and arguing back and forth about what may happen or might happen, how about getting out and rallying people to get this city turned around? …
Fulton is OUR city … let’s take it back! …
Get ready for the wake up call when the results of Cuomo’s Free College tuition come’s to fruition .
Your right on mark MIKE, i call cuomos office and ask them where cuomo was getting all this money from, their reply i dont know, well of course we the tax payers know, we are broke cuomo no more, if you want free college you paid for it cuomo, you get paid a hell of a lot more than people on S,S,