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notes from the SUPERVISOR’S OFFICE

5209 Western Ave, Guilderland • (518) 356-1980 • www.townofguilderland.org

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s we enter September, with the slow fade of summer and the arrival of the new school year, I would like to begin by reminding all of our drivers to be careful on Guilderland’s roads, please take particular care when you see children walking or bicycling, and be mindful of New York State law regarding stopped school buses. It takes a few days for people to get used to the altered routine involved with a full complement of school buses being on the road, especially during the morning commute, so a little extra caution is always a good thing.

Guilderland’s Fall Household Hazardous Waste Day Is scheduled for Saturday, September 15, at the Town Highway Garage on French’s Mill Road in Guilderland Center. In order to participate, you will need an event pass that is available

GUILDERLAND’S FALL HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DAY IS SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 without charge at the Town Clerk’s Office or at the Guilderland Transfer Station upon presentation of a vehicle registration or similar identification showing Guilderland residency.

The event will run from 8:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. Simply drive your vehicle into the event area at the Highway Garage, where trained workers will unload the materials you have brought for safe and environmentally appropriate disposal.

Listings of materials eligible for disposal through this event can be found at the Town website, www.townofguilderland.org. Please call the Guilderland Transfer Station at 861-6776 with any questions you may have about the Hazardous Waste Day Program.

I’d like to provide a reminder that school and library taxes are due in September. Bills will be mailed to residents who do not have a tax escrow with a mortgage lender at the beginning of September, and the last day to pay taxes without a penalty is Monday, October 1. Payments may be made via mail, at the First Niagara Bank branch offices on Western Avenue and Carman Road, on-line (Mastercard and Visa accepted) at the Receiver of Taxes page on the Town website (www.townofguilderland.org) , or in person at the Tax Office in Town Hall (cash, checks, and Discover Card accepted). The Tax Office will remain open until 6:00 P.M. during September to accept payments.

Please remember that the Town’s role with respect to school and library taxes is acting as a payment agent only. Questions or concerns about residents’ school or library taxes should be directed toward administrators or Board members of the school district or library, who prepare the budgets that are funded by the collection of these taxes.

I wish all our residents an enjoyable end to the summer season and a smooth transition into autumn.

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Summer may be winding down, but recreational opportunities still abound at Guilderland’s parks. Visit Tawasentha Park and enjoy our five-mile network of hiking trails, basketball and tennis courts, playground, or picnic areas. Our neighborhood parks offer a variety of choices for active recreation or quiet enjoyment. The walking trail at the McKownville Reservoir Park has been resurfaced to provide for a more pleasant visitor experience. As the league season comes to a close, there is a wider choice of tee times available at Western Turnpike Golf Course, which is always a pleasant place to play in the cooler environment of late summer and early fall.

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Miyako and Go Wireless Verizon store both closed within a month of each other. The realty group, TRG, is looking for tenants. The Last American Video Store also closed at Star Plaza. And most of you have seen the old BFS restaurant transformed since its May 31 closing. Most recently Albany Auto Radiator closed, as well.

New businesses that have opened far surpass the closed ones, though. Bloom and Bee Photography has opened across from the 20 Mall on Western Ave. Super Cuts Hair Salon opened in the 20 Mall, and Recovery Room IS opening January 2013.

In Star Plaza, Fin your Fishmonger is opening at the old video store, hopefully by November! And then along Western Ave we have Nosh Deli in the old Wendyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s down by Crossgates, A new pizza place called Crispy Basil is coming soon (end of wing-it Sept) at the old friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and party productions there is another pizza place that opened in spring called Milano at Cosimoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plaza. And CafĂŠ rewind the 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Calabria Italian Restaurant has Reunions done a great job of making over Â&#x2021; the former BFS space.

We have a few HUGE community events coming up that the chamber is coordinating; Souped Up on Guilderland on Sat. Oct. 6 at Altamont orchards where we will be auctioning the colorful Adirondack chairs; and Ladies Night Out Health and Wellness Expo October 2 at the Italian American Community Center. For details on these and more, go to www. guilderlandchamber.com

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Q. Do you have many regular customers? Is there anything specific that they are always coming in for?

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recently read an article that said one-third of divorces are caused by Facebook! I found this hard to believe. First, how do you measure something as complicated as the demise of a marriage and attribute it to one thing? Second, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t walking into anyone’s home and making them do anything that they don’t want to do.

Exploring what was said in that article further, the statistic actually was that Facebook is used as evidence in one-third of the divorce cases in the United Kingdom. This I can believe. It is amazing what people, from age 16 to 60, post on-line, say in an e-mail, or text. On a daily basis, I am forwarded e-mails, texts, and voice mails ranging from childish spats to outright criminal threats.

Not only is the content incredible, but the sheer volume is overwhelming. I cannot imagine the number of hours that American businesses are losing as their employees spend their day emailing, texting, and posting.

Potential employers often Google candidates and look them up on Facebook. Is your Facebook page private? If so, what kind of photo, if any, can the public see? A photo of you and your children tossing a ball, or a photo of you dressed up as if you are on your way to The Rocky Horror Picture show? Are you emailing from your current employer’s account on what is obviously your work time? If so, the employer may wonder what you will do on her time if she hires you.

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My general advice to clients is to ask themselves the following questions before putting information in an e-mail, text, or online: 1. If you did not have the benefit of modern technology, would you write down what you want to say on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, address the envelope, buy a stamp and walk to the mailbox to send it? If the answer to this question is “no,” what you want to say is probably not that important.

2. Is what you want to say longer than two sentences? There are few words of substance that need to be exchanged that takes longer than that.

3. Is a response required? If you receive a text that says something derogatory, consider that your response may not change the sender’s mind and instead begin a war of words.

My mother use to say if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.

4. Is what you are writing something you will impress a judge with in court one day?

5. Is what you are putting “out there” something you will be proud to have your loved ones see and remember you by one day? This is probably the most important question to ask oneself.

I am sure that princes have been drinking and carousing since the beginning of time. However, as Prince Harry can tell you, without modern technology millions of people all over the world didn’t have the “blacked out box” to know or remember you by!

Margaret C. Tabak is a partner at Tabak & Kiosse, LLP, a law firm located in Great Oaks Office Park (near Crossgates Mall). Along with her partner (Leyla A. Kiosse), Attorney Tabak counsels clients on all matters related to matrimonial and family law.

A resident of Guilderland for more than 20 years, Margaret received her undergraduate degree from SUNY Albany and her law degree from Albany Law School. If you have questions about a matrimonial or family law issue, contact Attorney Tabak for a consultation by calling 464-4095 or visiting the firm’s website, www.tklawllp.com.

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Are homes selling? How long will it take to sell my home?

These are questions that I hear almost every day. When I started in the business 20 years ago, a real estate agent’s primary evaluation tool was a CMA or Comparative Market Analysis.

Using this method an agent would evaluate prior closed, pending, and active listings in an area to derive an estimated value for a property. This method is still used by many agents today. However, to really know what is going on in a real estate market in general, a more detailed statistical analysis is required.

Based on recent Multiple Listing Service Data here is what is happening in Guilderland as of August 31, 2012. There are roughly 149 existing single family homes listed for sale with an average list price of $315,219. Properly priced Guilderland homes are selling for about 96% of list price on average.

Currently there have been 189 closed existing single family homes sales in 2012 with an average marketing time of 86 days and an average sale price of $260,896. There are currently 59 homes under contract waiting to close. During the same period in 2011, 163 existing single family homes were sold in Guilderland for an average sale price of $262,995 and an average reported marketing time of about 94 days.

In real terms, while prices have remained stable over the past year, the demand for homes in Guilderland has increased as is evident in the shortening marketing period and larger volume of homes sold. We are starting to see multiple offers again on a fairly regular basis for homes that are price correctly, which is a very positive sign for home sellers. If this year is similar to the past several years, we expect a strong September and October for home sales.

While the market is showing signs of strengthening, about 20% of homes listed in Guilderland in 2012 expired unsold.

Based on the current absorption rate, Guilderland has about a 6 month supply of existing homes on the market. As a general rule of thumb, a 6 month supply of homes is considered to be a

balanced market. When the inventory of homes is greater than 6 months it is considered a buyer’s market. A supply less to than 6 months will tend indicate the market favors sellers. These are general numbers and serve as a guideline only.

Each neighborhood and price range within the town will vary from the averages and each home should be evaluated individually to draw accurate valuation and marketing conclusions.

In response to various information requests, we have recently added a free online real estate market snapshot that can be customized using current up to date Multiple Listing Service data. If you want to know what is happening in your Guilderland neighborhood visit us at www.guilderlandmarkettrends.com This site will give you a free analysis of what homes in your neighborhood are actually selling for as well as information such as days on the market for specific homes. If you need help interpreting your free report please call us!

Kevin Clancy has been providing real estate appraisal and brokerage services in the Capital District for the past 18 years. A NYS real estate broker, general certified real estate appraiser, and best selling author, Kevin received an undergraduate degree in marketing from Siena College and an MBA from the University at Albany. He resides in Altamont with his wife and two daughters. Kevin can be reached in the office at 518-861-7016.

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o school has started! I am having trouble letting the summer go because this summer was so great! Since a late June vacation with my family, I have been here at the Taekwondo school having a blast with my youngest son Mete in Summer Camp. We have been working on the FMS eighth grade bridge math packet, watching movie fight scenes, creating our own fight scenes, slicing watermelons with swords, practicing our weapons techniques and most importantly helping our students improve their martial arts skills while having a ton of summer fun.

As great as this summer was, I know that I have to let it go and get back to school. I have to let go of all of our summer fun, including math, and let my son go back to school. Children will say they are not looking forward to it, but we all know that they will be really excited as they get back to their autumn schedule.

Encourage your children in a positive way through their educational experience this year. Your children may be starting in a new school, school for the first time or just a new year in the same school.

Whatever their situation is, listen carefully to what they are saying and help them through their days. Try to remember that it is the first time they are “where” they are, but we have been “there” before, while keeping in mind that they perceive events in such a dramatically different way than we do. In fact, it may be really dramatic!

Sometimes the best way to help them is to listen. On the other hand, sometimes you don’t get an abundance of information from your children, do you?. The stories of their school days will come out, give them time, be patient, do not rush it. By the end of September, we should all have a pretty good feeling of how their school experience is going.

One idea for creating the environment for conversation without asking, is to demonstrate responsibility for homework by doing work with them. I do not mean to do their homework with them, nor do I mean to do it for them - that is their job. I do mean that you can sit down with them and do some of your own work while they do theirs, answering their possible questions as they work. The work that you do is entirely up to you, but you must have something like bills to pay, work on the computer from your job, emails …Does it really matter? If it looks like work and you complain a little about doing it, but do it anyway, is that not a most valuable lesson? The best part is that this lesson is accomplished while spending time together, getting their homework done and getting your work done. You can try to develop your own ideas for opportunities to be together during their homework, since many important conversations can come out of that time together. It is easy for me, since I always have homework, and I am good at complaining about it!

I wish all of you the best 2012- 2013 school year ever, filled with the success of improvement, which is always the best personal academic success, and as always, as we begin the football season, I must say: GO DUTCHMEN!!!!!!!

Master Rice owns Guilderland Martial Arts and holds a 5th degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.

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