New Rochelle School Deal: There's More

Update: Just wanted to sumarize this better. Bottomline - a homeless shelter, undoubtedly supported by government money and perhaps donations ponies up over a million dollars to a well-heeled community to keep from being thrown out, or simply opposed. And from those monies the kids of the well to do elite get to go, or did, to the opera, ... travel, learn to cook fine cusine? Oh, but they care, these liberals do. They really care. What BS. As long as they get their cut they care, it seems. And I'd bet taxdollars are at the heart of funding for the shelter. Feel better now? You get to send some Ivy Leaguer to be to the opera to "tolerate" a homeless shelter in their midst. How special is that?

Whoa. This seems to go well beyond Obama, right to the heart of a corrupted liberal mindset when it gains power. via Instapundit we learn:

New Rochelle Public Schools Assign Seven Year Olds to Obama Campaign.

That linked article cites this fellow below

New Rochelle Superintendent of Schools Richard Organisciak, an Obama supporter, did not respond to emails requesting comment.

Now look at this for starters.

In a bizarre, unprecedented and shameless move, Superintendent Richard Organisciak last night formally requested that the New Rochelle Board of Education approve a "resolution of support" for MacMenamin's Grill, an area restaurant that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Confusion reigned as normally docile board members took the highly unusual (for them) step of asking questions.

The thing is - buried in a long troubling item locked behind a server but cached is this. It appears as though hundreds of thousands of dollars from a homeless shelter???? - targeted for the city and schools is or was being spread over any number of very upscale businesses and endeavors, including the upscale restaurant Obama supporter Organisciak wanted a resolution of support for from the board of education. Talk about corrupt! Geesh! I believe many of those dollars were from a homeless shelter????. Macmenamin's Grill & Chef Works is, or was very upscale, indeed. "In a class of it's own." From reading, I'd wager the local junior college was funneling money to it as well to teach students how to cook.

These are Ivy League kids enroute to Yale who get to travel, go to the opera, etc ... on money from the local Homeless Shelter. What's wrong with that picture?

Concern in Greenburgh Group's fund distribution drawing criticism WestHELP sees criticism grow in town

VALHALLA - An annual $650,000 payment to the Valhalla schools for enrichment programs brings cutting-edge technology to classrooms, sends students to the Grand Canyon, buys discount orchestra seats at the Metropolitan Opera and provides a principal $50,000 a year to manage it all.The money comes from the WestHELP homeless shelter, which gives the town of Greenburgh $1.2 million ayear. The town keeps $450,000, gives $100,000 to the Fairview Fire District and the rest goes to Valhalla to mollify opposition to the WestHELP homeless shelter in the Mayfair-Knollwood neighborhood

This year's $65,000 for that part of the partnership, called Valkyrie, includes such offerings as a Museum of Modern Art tour and lunch; dinner and a candlelight tour of Washington Irving's home in Tarrytown; and sessions on food preparation at Macmenamin's Grill & Chef Works in New Rochelle

Comments

[Toni]

This money isn't from the homeless shelter, it's from the county (meaning all of us who live here and pay taxes). Go here for the whole convoluted story: http://www.valhallavoice.com

The county built the shelter, leases it to the Town of Greenburgh, then subleases it back for $1.2 million a year.

This county is so corrupt, it isn't funny. We're paying the highest property taxes IN THE COUNTRY, so these kids can go to the opera.

[mike d]

"Dick Organsack?"