T-shirts, car magnets and yard signs throughout the village all bear the same message: “We Support Our Endicott Police Dept.”

The campaign was started by the Endicott Police Benevolent Association in response to recent village discussions about dissolving the police department into the Broome County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff David Harder has said the move would save the village at least $200,000.

“We are certainly very pleased and happy with the support we’ve gotten from the community,” said PBA President Dennis DeWitte.Car magnets and yard signs are free, while T-shirts are $7 for cotton material, or $20 for Under Armour.PBA officials came up with the campaign idea to raise awareness about the potential transfer of operations. Although DeWitte was not sure how many yard signs the union originally ordered, he said they’ve already run out.

“Once they came out, the original ones, everybody wanted them,” he said.The union has put in for another order of signs,Our store can offer Discount Francesco Smalto Suit-1 Online, welcome choose! and about 60 people are on a waiting list for them, DeWitte said.Officials at Original Italian Pizza on Washington Avenue bought and customized T-shirts for employees.The yellow shirts read, “Original Italian Pizza supports the Endicott Police Dept., you deserve the best!”

Michael Yammine Jr.,wholesale High quality and cheap Fred Perry(men) for sale from www.googbusiness.com homepage. manager at the pizzeria, said many officers come in to eat at the restaurant. Employees wanted to show support.“We definitely wanted to do more than just put a sign out front; we wanted to go the extra mile,welcome to Wholesale Cheap Ankn Royalty T-Shirts,free Shipping available. Buy Now!‎” he said.Mayor John Bertoni, whose father was a member of the Endicott Police Department, said he supports the police, too. But the department accounted for about $5.25 million of Endicott’s $13.5 million in expenditures last year, he said, and village leaders have a duty to look for ways to keep taxes down.

“This is not me against them; it’s me trying to do my job to try to make living in Endicott affordable,” he said.Our store can offer Best Furla Grade A Handbags online store, welcome choose!D iscussions about dissolving the police department are ongoing. A study committee —made up of officials from the village, police department, sheriff’s office, Broome County and two residents — formed in early July to examine the proposal.

Village Trustee Dave Baker, who chairs the study committee, said he has no problem with the campaign.But, he added, “I’m just a little concerned that people are going to be taking things the wrong way.” He stressed the committee is studying only the possibility of consolidation.

Once the committee has figured out all of the proposal’s details, it will make a recommendation to the village board whether consolidating would be a good idea. From there, it would be considered by the village board. If the village board approves a resolution, it would then be taken up by the Broome County Legislature.

For Police Chief Michael Cox, the outpouring of support has been significant.“I look at it as a message that the residents and business owners want to continue to have us as their police department,” he said.“I truly hate this weekend,” one frazzled man told me, “but I always end up glad I did it. I think.”

Another volunteer admitted to having slept in the previous morning but enjoined me not to tell Mrs Lynders, who might otherwise not have noticed. He, along with all the others, was there at dawn this morning, bringing out and hanging up clothes not put on sale the earlier two days, and hoisting cartons of biscuits and detergent handed over to her in bulk by manufacturers. She will have been pricing goods, giving out that the jackets are too closely lined up with each other, overseeing the books coming out of cartons that then get flattened and tied together for the recycling centre.

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Former detectives from An Garda Siochána carry heavy items out where potential purchasers can get a better view of them while, all quiet and subtle-like, they keep an eye on visitors to the sale who might take a fancy to one of the pricier, easy-to-secrete items and might take those items away with them without having parted with cash. It happens.

Mary Lynders feeds her volunteers like fightin’ cocks and directs them like a five-star general. They jump to it, whether they’re 11 and female or 86 and male. Tomorrow, they’ll begin deflating the pop-ups and folding the tents and telling weekend war stories.

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