Compendium of Prudent Financial Options for the Fiscal Health of the City of Yonkers - Part 1
By HEZI ARIS

Yonkers’ Financial Options Hezitorial

An Ongoing Series of Options to Avert the Unresolved Financial Crisis from Haunting the Taxpayer Again Next Year

Charicature of a younger, better looking Editor-at-Large / Radio Host Hezi Aris.

The Yonkers Tribune will begin an introspective exploration that can lead the City of Yonkers (CoY) to future fiscal health. In so doing, both the Executive Branch of government, Mayor Mike Spano, and the Legislative Branch of government, comprising the seven members of the Yonkers City Council must not only work toward serving the public interest, that is, the taxpayer, but also find resolution to the bloated, unsustainable “family and friends network” that has failed the majority, serving the chosen minority who are financially rewarded for towing the “political directives” of the powers that be. On that issue alone, let us not unhinge our minds by spewing political dogma to undermine ...

A Political Poll to Gauge Yonkersites’ Desire to Extend and/or Rescind Term Limits
By HEZI ARIS

Charicature of a younger, better looking Editor-at-Large / Radio Host Hezi Aris.

YONKERS, NY — July 4, 2018 — There is an evident interest by Yonkers City Hall to ascertain whether the public has reconsidered its desire for extending term-limits beyond the two-term maximum presently permitted by the Yonkers City Charter or to rescind term-Limits altogether. This quest to “know” rears its head despite Yonkers Tribune’s assertions since last year that the effort pragmatic by those who will be the eventual arbiters to the outcome, despite two past failed referenda postulating to do just that. While a third referendum over this issue seems overkill, funding has been allocated to learn the public’s present sentiment on this issue. 

Reliable sources have advised the Yonkers Tribune that it is impossible to ascertain if the poll will be underwritten, that is, funded by the Yonkers ...