Published by fixBuffalo
on Saturday, February 05, 2005 at 7:21 PM. 
It seems as though the abandoned and vacant NYS asylum for the mentally ill has temporarily re-opened in a new location, Buffalo’s City Hall. The JN Adam’s TB Hospital and NYS mental health facility should have been sold to Trathen last week as part of Gov. Pataki’s various privatization initiatives to sell surplus NYS property. Examples of this are good for everyone. Check out this! And this!
Buffalo’s elected and anointed thwarted the deal last Tuesday by refusing to ok a resolution which would have done at least three things: - Sold the 600+ acre parcel to Trathen and placed $350K in our pockets
- Placed the property on Perrysburg's tax role - finally
- Allowed the town of Perrysburg to move forward with a necessary water project
Instead in an apparent mix-up in prescribed medications our Common Council voted to oppose the resolution and thereby accomplished the following:
- Exposed the city of Buffalo to various unknown future liabilities including possible demolition costs - we can't even deal with our property in a responsible manner - see the subject of this blog!
- Prevented the town of Perrysburg from moving forward with necessary water projects
- Continue to force various state mental health agencies - designated with providing mental health services - to maintain the carrying costs of a closed facility!!!
When the facility was first built 90 years ago Buffalo had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country. Today we have more people on welfare per capita than anywhere and a lobotomized local government. This is too %#*@ -up and another textbook example of the incompetence that drives people at the rate of 15/day away from Buffalo.
Buffalo Fiscal Control Board member & treasurer H. Carl McCall in his previous life as NYS Comptroller first called attention to the necessity of selling this property in 1994 (Yes it’s the same H. Carl McCall who was Chair of the New York Stock Exchange's Compensation Committee and approved the $140 dollar retirement package for NYSE Wiz, Dick Grasso! Come on Buffalo Bloggers, get it together!!!) That debacle aside, NYS has a very transparent method of selling all sorts of things we bought and paid for and no longer need as people continue to move to other states.
Consult the DSM-IV and call your Council member to see if they are taking the proper medications. Just check in, it's the right thing to do. Save our city!
Sources tell me that the Downtown’s Art-Deco Asylum may have a new course of treatment soon and Franczyck’s insane behavior of coordinating and thwarting this opportunity may be reversed!
Who's running this place? One flew East and one flew West...
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