Village of Richfield Springs

The new website for the Village of Richfield Springs is up and running. It can now be viewed on handheld devices and all things iOS. Thank you for your patience. We will continue to update and revise the information from this point forward. Check it out: http://www.villageofrichfieldsprings-ny.com/

A Clerk’s Perspective The petition for Village Dissolution circulated, and many residents refused to sign, while some chose to sign with the notion ‘let’s just see the numbers and go from there.’ Following the petition was an advertisement placed for all to see stating erroneous ‘numbers’ representing inflated salaries and extravagant potential tax savings. Awaiting the Board’s response to the ads, residents have scrambled for facts and figures to shed light on the reality of...Continue reading

Village Provides Essential Services Truth: The Village does a lot of work that the Town does not handle. There is very little in the way of duplicate services, and where duplication has occurred, efforts to share services are already in place. The Village of Richfield Springs runs a tight ship. We do not carry unnecessary staff, and the staff we do have works hard to keep budgets in line, often finding ways to fix things in house rather than buying new or sending out for repa...Continue reading

If you haven't already, see the post on the Village Facebook wall detailing the truth about Board Members' stipends. Later this week: a post explaining how the services the Village provides are not "duplicate services" already provided by the Town and debunking the outrageous claim that over $200,000 could be saved by eliminating jobs through consolidation.