A People's Budget for Dutchess County

A People's Budget for Dutchess County Restore 5-day week for county Office for Aging Senior Friendship Centers, expand Domestic Abuse Response Team countywide, restore Human Rights Commission!

Fact: There's MORE than enough funding to restore a 5-day week for our county Office for the Aging Senior Friendship Centers, expand our county's Domestic Abuse Response Team to protect women from domestic violence in all 22 local municipalities (not just four), restore our county's Human Rights Commission, restore our county Youth Bureau's cost-saving Project Return program for troubled teens to keep them out of jail, restore our county's Office of Consumer Affairs, and make sure toxic toys and glyphosate are banned here in Dutchess, make sure pet stores here in our county don't take dogs from puppy mills, make sure our county incinerator is shut down-- if we end pay-to-play corruption in our county government, move towards zero waste, put solar on all county buildings-- and above all, stop wasteful/unneeded $300 million expansion of our county jail and $40 million annually in corporate welfare for corporations here in Dutchess County paying their workers poverty wages!

all-GOP Glens Falls/NY Village Board passed clean-air law in April; incinerator now shutting down there-- time for all-D...
08/05/2026

all-GOP Glens Falls/NY Village Board passed clean-air law in April; incinerator now shutting down there-- time for all-Dem Poughkeepsie Town Board and/or Dem Co. Leg. majority to pass identical clean-air law tightening up emissions standards for burn plants (and if the Dutchess incinerator in T/Pok. is then forced to shut down as a result even better!)

Email from Working Class Dutchess Read this-- then send an email to Dutchess County Democratic Legislative majority members Yvette Valdés Smith, Barrington Atkins, Brennan Kearney, Lisa Kaul, Alix Win

it'd be nice if the Dutchess Dem Co. Leg. majority made sure that the new County Finance Commissioner is interested in d...
05/06/2026

it'd be nice if the Dutchess Dem Co. Leg. majority made sure that the new County Finance Commissioner is interested in divesting $250 million in county funds from Epstein enabler JP Morgan Chase before they vote during tomorrow's Budget Committee mtg. and Monday's full board mtg.-- ask them

Email from Working Class Dutchess You don't want to miss this. Fact: Dutchess County gives $250 million yearly to JP Morgan Chase to hold/invest-- as facilitated by the County Finance Commissioner and

your turn now peeps
02/02/2026

your turn now peeps

Email from Working Class Dutchess   I literally just now emailed this letter just a bit below to the 15 Dems currently in the majority in the Dutchess County Legislature-- feel free to follow suit-- w

Do you serve on a town or city Conservation Advisory Council or Climate Smart Communities Task Force-- or are you a memb...
12/23/2025

Do you serve on a town or city Conservation Advisory Council or Climate Smart Communities Task Force-- or are you a member of another local organization or Democratic Committee?...read this, share widely, email it to all you know-- and then help get your town/city CAD or CSDTF-- and then your town board or city council-- to pass a pro-zero-waste, anti-incineration resolution-- to press the new Co. Leg. Dem majority to have a spine and make sure 2026 is the year Dutchess actually starts taking meaningful steps towards zero waste, closing the county incinerator asap (recall-- current DCRRA contract with Wheelabrator/Win Waste to operate county incinerator runs out in 2027-- so plans need to be put in place NOW!)

Email from Working Class Dutchess   [article above from link here below: https://hudsonvalleypost.com/report-hudson-valley-incinerator-one-of-top-polluters-in-u-s/ -- also see: https://www.thedailycat

dare to dream-- another county is possible
12/08/2025

dare to dream-- another county is possible

Email from Working Class Dutchess   FDR once met with a group of activists who sought his support for bold legislation. He listened to their arguments for some time and then said, "You've convinced me

pass it on
12/03/2025

pass it on

Email from Working Class Dutchess   "This drone image above captures the new solar panel-covered carports at the Larry Oddo Finance Administration Building in Auburn-- it's one of six Placer County bu

let the sun shine in
12/03/2025

let the sun shine in

Email from Working Class Dutchess   "This drone image above captures the new solar panel-covered carports at the Larry Oddo Finance Administration Building in Auburn-- it's one of six Placer County bu

this
11/25/2025

this

Email from Working Class Dutchess   Dutchess County currently has a $100 million account with JP Morgan Chase Bank— Sue Serino’s first executive order signed in Jan.— are Co. Leg. Dems going to challe

affordability means protecting consumers
11/22/2025

affordability means protecting consumers

Email from Working Class Dutchess   Current Co. Leg. Minority Leader (and soon-to-be Dutchess County Legislature Chair!) Yvette Valdés Smith: “We have run on what the people talked to us about, and re

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