Dennis Gabryszaks Record

[crabapples]

Forget all the mailings Dennis sends out saying how great he is.

This is all you need to read to see what Dennis has done to Chektowaga during his twenty-some years of "service" to the taxpayers of Cheektowaga and now Lancaster:

November 7, 1990
TOWN TURNS DOWN GOLF COURSE FUNDING
CHEEKTOWAGA DENIED ADDITIONAL $1.9 MILLION BY 12,260-5,159 VOTE

October 20, 1993
CHEEKTOWAGA TURNS DOWN GOLF COURSE TAX-FREE FINANCING PLAN APPARENTLY FAILS TO MAKE IMPACT ON VOTERS
3,954 or 47.6 percent in favor and 4,352 or 52.4 percent opposed

Yet after 25 years of talk he finally pushed the golf course to be built. Trust me taxpayers paid for it eventhough they twice voted against using town funds to finance it.

Taxes

November 15, 1991
CHEEKTOWAGA BUDGET RAISES TAX RATE 14.7% INCREASE BLAMED ON UNION RELUCTANCE TO TRIM FRINGES, DROP IN SALES TAX

February 2, 1993
CHEEKTOWAGA HIKES DEPARTMENT HEADS' PAY INCREASES ARE ALSO APPROVED FOR APPOINTED OFFICIALS, NON-UNION STAFF
The Cheektowaga Town Board approved 3.5 percent raises Monday for nearly all department heads, other appointed town officials and non-union employees. Town Engineer Chester L. Bryan, apparently the only exception, received a 4 percent raise. elected officials got 5 percent raises.

October 2, 1993
BUDGET PLAN SPELLS HIKE IN CHEEKTOWAGA
Cheektowaga's proposed 1994 budget calls for a 6.1 percent increase in the property tax rate outside the villages and increases of 9 and 10 percent in the villages.

October 27, 1993
SENIOR CITIZENS HIT CHEEKTOWAGA BUDGET BOARD MEMBERS ARE URGED TO ELIMINATE 4% PAY RAISES, CUT SPENDING
Senior citizens on limited income urged the Cheektowaga Town Board Tuesday to cut the proposed 1994 budget and eliminate 4 percent raises for town officials.

November 2, 1993
CHEEKTOWAGA BUDGET TRIMS TAX HIKES
The Cheektowaga Town Board adopted a $47 million budget Monday, trimming projected increases in property-tax rates outside the villages from 6 percent to 2.9 percent

October 4, 1994
GABRYSZAK PROPOSES $51.1 MILLION BUDGET 4.5% PAY HIKE FOR CHEEKTOWAGA EMPLOYEES HELPS DRIVE UP SPENDING

November 8, 1994
CHEEKTOWAGA TOWN BOARD ADOPTS BUDGET PLAN CARRIES MINIMAL TAX INCREASE; SOME RESIDENTS WILL SEE DECREASE IN RATE
The $51 million budget includes 4.5 percent pay increases for most town employees, including the supervisor, Town Board, town clerk and highway superintendent.

October 3, 1995
DISPATCHERS GET 10% RAISE OVER 3 YEARS

GABRYSZAK UNVEILS $52.6 MILLION BUDGET
October 5, 1995
Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak has unveiled a $52.6 million tentative 1996 budget that holds spending for services such as police, recreation and administration to a 2.5 percent increase.

November 7, 1995
$52.4 MILLION PLAN HIKES TAX RATE 44 CENTS

July 10, 1996
3 PERCENT RAISES OK'D FOR NON-UNION EMPLOYEES

July 25, 1996
CHEEKTOWAGA GROUP EMBARKS ON VISIT TO SISTER CITY IN POLAND
Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak, Police Chief Bruce D. Chamberlin and William E. Scarafia, president of the Cheektowaga Chamber of Commerce, are among the Cheektowagans who will visit Lowicz, tour the city and discuss trade opportunities with Lowicz officials. The group will travel to Toronto to board a plane to Warsaw.

October 2, 1996
GABRYSZAK PLAN SEEKS 3.5% BOOST IN TAXES FOR THOSE OUTSIDE VILLAGES

October 29, 1996
RESIDENTS QUESTION RAISES FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS
Several residents lashed out at a budget hearing against the proposed raises, which range from 3 percent to more than 5 percent. "Why would there be a wage increase?" asked one woman. "I don't feel this should go on every year like this."

November 5, 1996
TOWN BOARD ADOPTS $54 MILLION BUDGET
The Cheektowaga Town Board Monday night adopted a $54 million budget that provides pay raises for some elected officials and increases taxes about 2.9 percent, or 36 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation, for many residents.

October 1, 1997
GABRYSZAK PLAN HIKES TAX RATE BY 35 CENTS
Cheektowaga residents living outside the villages would see a 2.5 percent tax increase next year under a tentative town budget submitted by Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak Tuesday afternoon.
The preliminary 1998 spending plan would raise town taxes 35 cents per $1,000 assessed valuation for Cheektowaga residents living outside the villages

October 2, 1997
SPENDING IS OUTLINED IN PROPOSED GABRYSZAK BUDGET
A few more police officers would be put on Cheektowaga streets in 1998; some town officials would see a pay hike; and the town work force would be cut through attrition.

October 28, 1997
RESIDENTS ASK JUSTIFICATION FOR TAX INCREASE
Cheektowaga taxes are expected to go up 2.5 percent next year, and Monday night Cheektowaga residents asked the Town Board why.
Amherst's tentative 1998 budget carries no tax increase, Erie County plans a tax freeze and Orchard Park is expected to see a tax decrease next year, said Alfred Piniarski of The Avenue. "Why can't we do the same thing?"

November 4, 1997
FINAL BUDGET PUTS TAX BOOST AT 22 CENTS PER $1,000

October 2, 1998
'99 INCREASE LESS THAN 1% FOR MOST TAXPAYERS

October 11, 1998
SALARIES FOR TOWN SUPERVISORS SEEM TO DEFY EXPLANATION
Budgets are tight in the county's big suburbs, and there's mounting public pressure to keep taxes down. But that isn't stopping several town supervisors from giving themselves modest pay raises next year.

October 21, 1998
OFFICIALS' SALARIES, RAISES COME UNDER FIRE
1999 budget -- which raises taxes about a half percent -- brought out the usual taxpayer watchdogs, who criticized Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak and Town Board members for the 3 percent raises budgeted for them next year.

November 17, 1998
TOWN'S '99 BUDGET TRIMS TAX RATE HALF A PERCENT

GABRYSZAK NEARLY LOSES HOME TO TAX FORECLOSURE
February 17, 1999
Cheektowaga Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak has escaped foreclosure on his $175,000 home by paying $4,054 in back property taxes and penalties.
Gabryszak, Erie County's highest-paid town supervisor, owed taxes to the town and the county on his Ely Road house from 1996 and 1998. Foreclosure proceedings -- prompted by the 1996 back taxes -- started in December, according to county real property records. The foreclosure would have occurred in June.
Gabryszak, however, paid the back taxes -- including interest and penalties -- on Jan. 29.
The town supervisor, who will earn $72,632 this year, called the matter an oversight. He said he paid the bill as soon as he became aware of it.
"It's an embarrassment for me," Gabryszak said. "When it was brought to my attention, it was paid off."
"I didn't get any breaks; I didn't ask for any favorable treatment," Gabryszak said. "There was a considerable amount of penalty and interest paid. I pay my taxes like everyone else."
Gabryszak had his home was built in 1993. It is assessed at $114,000, which translates into a full value of about $175,000, according to records.
The supervisor paid all his taxes on time -- county and town, as well as school -- for the first few years that he was in the house.
In 1996, Gabryszak paid all but $900 of his $3,460 town and county tax bill on time, records show.

September 1, 1999
GABRYSZAK BATTLE WITH ROGOWSKI WORRIES DEMOCRATS
When the county's highest-paid town supervisor admitted earlier this year he had neglected to pay all of his property taxes for two years, his political rivals just had to smile.
Dennis H. Gabryszak, Cheektowaga's town supervisor since 1993, wouldn't dare run for re-election now, they figured. When you reign over a highly taxed town and then fail to pay your own bill, voters tend to get upset.

September 4, 1999
ROGOWSKI COUNTERS CHARGE BY LISTING ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Stung by Cheektowaga Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak's charge that "he hasn't done a damn thing" in public office...
"The guy's obviously looking in the mirror when he talks about not doing anything," Council Member William P. Rogowski fumed.

September 22, 1999
TOWN COULD SEE 3 TO 5 PERCENT TAX CUT FOR 2000

October 2, 1999
BUDGET PLAN TRIMS TAX RATES WHILE RAISING TOWN SPENDING

October 10, 1999
IF TOWNS CUT TAXES, FORGO RAISES, IT MUST BE ELECTION TIME

November 2, 1999
TOWN BOARD ADOPTS BUDGET TRIMMING TAX RATE

December 28, 1999
CHEEKTOWAGA BOARD FREEZES OWN, SUPERVISOR'S PAY
Cheektowaga officials Monday night adopted a pay scale that freezes the salary of the town supervisor and council members for a year and gives most department heads an approximately 3 percent raise.

September 27, 2000
NEW BUDGET IS SURE TO INCLUDE A TAX INCREASE, SUPERVISOR
SAYS
Cheektowaga Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak on Tuesday all but guaranteed that his 2001 budget, due to be filed Friday, will propose a town tax increase next year, the first since 1998.

October 22, 2000
TOWNS' TOWERING TAXES ERIE COUNTY EXECUTIVE JOEL A. GIAMBRA CRITICIZES THE TAX INCREASES AS THE RESULT OF SHORTSIGHTEDNESS, SUGGESTING TOWN OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN BALANCING THEIR BUDGETS ... BY RAIDING SURPLUSES

November 7, 2000
POLICE PRAISED AS BUDGET WITH 6.6% TAX RISE IS OK'D
Town taxes will rise by 6.6 percent next year

October 21, 2001
TOWN AIMS TO HOLD LINE ON SPENDING

October 30, 2001
2002 BUDGETS' SPENDING ABOVE INFLATION RATE

November 2, 2001
BUDGET RISES TO ISSUE IN COUNTY RACE
First, Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak filed a proposed budget in September that would have raised taxes 13 percent. The proposed increase now stands at 12.3 percent, and the supervisor has guaranteed it will be lower when the budget is adopted

November 6, 2001
TOWN BOARD, SUPERVISOR ARGUE OVER BUDGET
"Once the tentative budget has been submitted to the Town Board it's the Town Board's responsibility to sit and work to reduce that," Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak said. "The Town Board isn't doing that.

November 20, 2001
TOWN BOARD UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS SPENDING PLAN

November 21, 2001
DEPEW, SLOAN WILL PAY MORE IN TOWN'S NEW BUDGET
Residents in the villages of Depew and Sloan will see double-digit increases in their town taxes under the 2002 budget adopted by the Cheektowaga Town Board. Their neighbors over the village line in the town will see their total tax bills go up about 6.75 percent next year.

January 9, 2002
BOARD OKS 2.5% HIKE, BUT NOT FOR ITSELF
MOST ELECTED AND APPOINTED OF FICIALS- except Town Board members -- in Cheektowaga will be receiving a 2.5 percent increase in salaries this year.
Council members, who have received less than a handful of raises in the last 15 years, did not take an increase for the eighth year in a row. They will be paid $18,552.

October 2, 2003
TAXES UP 7% IN PROPOSED TOWN BUDGET
Most Cheektowaga town employees would not see a pay increase for a second consecutive year, while most residents would see their town taxes increased by more than 7 percent, under the tentative budget filed this week by Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak.
The supervisor repeated the statement he made a year ago: Unless some agreement is made with unions on health benefits, there is no room for salary increases in the town budget. There will be 2 percent raises for about 30 department heads

November 18, 2003
BUDGET PASSES WITH TAX INCREASE, RETURN OF RECYCLING
The Cheektowaga Town Board on Monday night unanimously approved a 2004 budget that provides for recycling while increasing taxes 8.79 percent.

October 6, 2004
FAMILIAR ISSUES DICTATING PROPOSED BUDGET HIKE
"The vast majority of the increase in the budget is a result of salary, benefits and retirement," Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak said. Those are the same increases the town grappled with last year.

October 6, 2005
Gabryszak projects tax rate increase below 4 percent in proposed budget
"We did the things we had to do in previous years that were distasteful to some," he said. "We're seeing what we said would happen." Gabryszak's tentative 2006 budget totals $73.98 million, which is 4 percent higher

November 11, 2005
Average tax bill in Cheektowaga will go up $40

October 3, 2006
Tax rate slightly lower in Cheektowaga budget
The $75.85 million budget proposed for next year would increase spending by 2.6 percent

October 9, 2006
Budget to give 2.75% raise to workers, elected officials
Salaries for town employees and elected officials in Cheektowaga would increase 2.75 percent under the proposed budget for 2007.
The 2.75 percent increase is included in union contracts, and non-union employees will receive the same rate, Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak said.

Source: Buffalo News

[WNYresident]

I read that and I'm puzzled why anyone would have a lawn sign out for him.

[JustRetired]

But he's a democrat, and it's Cheektowaga, he can't lose........

Let me see, where's da democrat line, oh, dar it is....

click, click, click, click, click, another perfect vote.......

[cheekman]

But he's a democrat, and it's Cheektowaga, he can't lose........

Let me see, where's da democrat line, oh, dar it is....

click, click, click, click, click, another perfect vote.......

This has been going on for the last 25 years click dar

[cheekman]

He blamed everyone else that worked for town for high taxes. But did he work for free? Did he drive his own car to work? This guy is a waste.

[cookie]

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=143&sh=spo

he got paid for some of those?!?!