Amherst residents packed Monday’s night town board meeting to call out members of the board to resign.
This comes as frustrations have risen over claims of a lack of communication, transparency, and the board passing an 11.4 percent tax increase.
Gina Gentry says she felt the board wasn’t being respectful during past board meetings when questions arose about the tax increase.
“11.4% tax increase is unheard of it’s over the state average, and if you look at all the local towns like Tonawanda, Cheektowaga and Clarence they are all below 2% that they went up so they had to vote to increase it above the 3%,” says Gentry. “And then they went well above the state average without anyone knowing and they released it two days after the election.”
7 News reporter Yoselin Person caught up with Town of Amherst Supervisor Brian Kulpa who defended the board’s actions.
“We did put stuff out there but the media didn’t write about it right away not blaming the media is just the cycle. It was a pre-election,” says Supervisor Kulpa. “And so you know there was there’s this contention that we had withheld information it was all out of the same time frames.”