According to an article in the Niagara Gazette, the City's Law Department is going to recommend to the Niagara Falls City Council that the assessment for the NFR-owned Turtle building be lowered by $600,000. The recommendation is part of a settlement between NFR and the City as a result of a lawsuit filed by NFR against the City. It gets better. As part of the settlement, the City will pay back to NFR $37,000.
Council Chairman Glenn Choolokian said that he had some questions for the Law Department but if this would prevent a costly lawsuit that the City cannot win, then the settlement should be approved. Really Glenn?? There is no chance in hell that this settlement is not approved by the Choolokian-led City Council. Choolokian and his partner in self-promotion, Sam Fruscione, are the darlings of the Niagara Falls Reporter and in case you didn't know it the Reporter is funded by NFR.
The Dynamic Duo (Choolokian & Fruscione) would never bite the hand that provides them with a weekly pulpit to espouse their positions on various city issues. It also provides them with a venue to take shots at Mayor Dyster who it seems has forgotten that he is the chief executive of the City. Dyster has taken the Neville Chamberlain approach as it relates to his interactions with the Duo as they appear to gain more and more say in what goes on in city government.
What I find also interesting is that none of our City officials have found it necessary to explain to the taxpayers why they should reduce the assessment of prime property downtown. For a city that is in a serious revenue crunch that has also seen its bond rating lowered, residents of the city deserve an explanation. Can't wait to hear how Chairman Choolokian spins this one out. After all, he and Fruscione are watchdogs for the taxpayers. With watchdogs like that, it might be time to get a security system.
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