Mike Ricard

Ricard Dodges Debates -- Ricard's Sweetheart Assessment -- Ricard's Illegal Variance

What's wrong with Michael Ricard?

Briefly, Ricard sued to knock a legitimate candidate off the ballot.
He refuses to debate his opponents. And he has abused his power,
through a lowball assessment and an improper zoning variance.

Ricard is trying to prevent Guilderland voters from having a choice
in the 2007 elections. He wants to eliminate a legitimate candidate
from the ballot. He is afraid of letting the voters choose an alternative.
He has even sued his opponents in court to try to limit voter choice.
Read about it in the Altamont Enterprise (3rd story).

Ricard, along with fellow incumbent Dave Bosworth,
has consistently tightened town control over information,
so voters can't find out what is going on with town goverment. The budget
is not publicly available, and if you can get it (through the FOIL process), it
is completely unclear and regular people cannot understand it.

Both Ricard and Bosworth have sweetheart tax assessments, paying
substantially lower taxes than the rest of us in town. The average home in
Guilderland is assessed at $115 per square foot. David Bosworth's
house is assessed at only $97 per square foot, but that isn't the big story.
Mike Ricard has his house assessed at only $79 per square foot,
among the lowest assessments of any homeowner in Guilderland.

Read more about Mike Ricard's Assessment.

There are two candidates for change in the Guilderland Town Board.
Please go to our Guilderland NY home page to find out more.