Tonawanda

For example, Cheektowaga Supervisor Brian Nowak is pro- projecting one and a half million dollars in revenue next year from the town's new hotel tax.

And the Town of Tonawanda said its naming rights agreement with Paddock Chevrolet for various town-owned recreational ve- venues will bring in more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in two thousand twenty-seven.

[clears throat] "And we're looking for additional advertising revenue at the Aquatic and Fitness Center next year," Supervisor John Flynn wrote in his budget.

Uh, so that's why we're paying more.

Conrad, forty-eight, has the Democratic and working family lines.

The 104th Assembly District covers the city of Tonawanda, Town of Tonawanda and Kenmore, as well as parts of North Tonawanda, Black Rock, and Riverside.

In a phone interview, Conrad said his priorities, if reelected, would continue to be practical community improvements, including a focus on public safety, energy costs, and education.

Fassi- Fassell, who a news reporter communicated with via text and email beginning September 27th, said he did not have time to participate in a phone interview over a span of several days.

Fassell is from Iraq, according to his Facebook page, which he said was his primary online platform promoting his candidacy.

He does not have a campaign website.

The only evidence of a campaign event was an April fundraiser promoted on Facebook by the Town of Tonawanda Republican Committee.

Conrad has about one hundred thousand dollars in his campaign account, according to the latest reports his campaign submitted to the State Board of Elections.

Continuing with the Ken-Ton Bee for October first, traffic changes implemented at Adams Field to ease congestion.

The Kenmore Town of Tonawanda School District and the Town of Tonawanda entered into a partnership to improve traffic flow and safety near Adams Field on Parker Boulevard and the Franklin Elementary/Middle School Complex on Parkhurst Boulevard.

Until now, most spectators used the Parker Boulevard entrance to the field and parked along the street, which resulted in significant traffic congestion and challenges for neighbors.

Meanwhile, the parking lot behind the C- Franklin Complex, which is in close proximity to the two other entrances, would often be empty.

Through this partnership, the district is closing the Parker Boulevard entrance to the field, and spectators will be directed to park behind Franklin, where two new lighted concrete pathways will be developed leading to the north and south rear at, entrances.

In exchange, the Town of Tonawanda will assist the district in solving longstanding traffic during arrival and dismissal at the Franklin Complex.

Until now, all vehicles had turn-- had to turn off of and exit onto Parkhurst Boulevard during arrival and dismissal, which created traffic and safety concerns.

To address this, the town is allowing the district to build a short exit road connecting the Franklin parking lot to the road that runs through Lincoln Park.

They basically shifted that deficit onto the next budget.

Had my budget been passed as written last year, and we were spending at levels that we are this year, the tax increase that we would have been looking at would be more in the neighborhood of 3.5 to 4%, along the lines of Tonawanda, along the lines of Lancaster, much lower than you're seeing in Amherst or the city of Tonawanda or even Orchard Park, you know, half of Orchard Park in terms of percentage.

But we're not paying for the spending that we did in 2022, 2023.

And you can put Donald Trump in charge of my budget in Cheektowaga.

But we did use a portion to, you know, in town park for the playground.

We used it for some other above ground type things.

But by and large, that went to fixing aging infrastructure underground, which is an issue the town of Cheektowaga has, similar to the town of Amherst in, in some sections, town of Tonawanda in some sections, especially the city of Buffalo, city of Tonawanda.

So y- y- you talk about how what you wanted to do last year would have still meant a tax increase this year.

It's when our traffic engineer, Jim Jones, joined the team.

He was formerly Town of Tonawanda's traffic engineer, and he'd retired.

He calls himself a recovering engineer because he believes that a lot of the decisions and things that he made may have gotten people hurt over the years.

He was doing it by the book, but he is like, the book is stupid, and the book is wrong, and I want to work with a progressive organization to do things differently.

Yeah.

But it was on Sheridan Drive in the town of Tonawanda, which is the town of Swiftwater, which is where I grew up.

Yeah.

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for us all right I have probably some good news for people who live in the Kenmore Tonawanda area okay go for it a plan seeks to ease traffic issues at Franklin schools and Adams field in the town of Tonawanda people who live near Adams field or who drive their children to Franklin middle school or elementary school will appreciate the changes coming to those venues in the town of Tonawanda officials must said Monday Kenmore Tonawanda schools administrators and town leaders say they're working together to to improve traffic flow and parking issues at the facilities in Tonawanda's Lincoln Park.

The first change is meant to limit congestion on Parker Boulevard and its side streets during Kenmore East High School football games at Adams Field.

To do this, the district is cutting off access to the field from Parker and instead redirecting fans to park at the Franklin Complex off Parker's Boulevard and walk from there.

The Adams and Franklin Complex work is part of a $67 million proposed capital project for district facilities, said Canton Superintendent Sabatino-Samato, who praised the town's cooperation on this and other matters.

This out-of-the-box thinking is exactly what I was talking about when we have a municipality and a school district come together and really try and focus on the same goals for not only our kids, but our entire community, Somato said on Monday.

Tonawanda Supervisor John Flynn said the town wants to bring in more families with young children and the partnership with the district advances this goal.

With these young families coming in, obviously they're going to go to our great Canton School District and so it's a win-win for everybody, Flynn said.