Evers "Backstrokes" on Water District Bailout

After giving his Conservative contractor an illegal $83,000 check behind the back of the town board, Supervisor Evers is now facing angry voters itching at the prospect of voting down his $830,000 bond bailout of the overspending on Water District 14.
When board members discovered that Building Department employees improperly approved $740,000 more to Casale Excavating than the agreed to bid without change orders, folks at town hall cooked up a plan to legally get the money from our pockets so the Contractor who controls the Conservative Party and political endorsements could keep the extra cash.
The proposal would allow the town to borrow $840,000 from all of us in a town wide water district by “transferring costs” already paid and certified as properly being apart of the Water District 14 contract. What they didn’t count on were citizens who launched a petition drive gathering up a couple of hundred signatures to force a vote on the proposal.
With the signatures in, the Evers plan would now require voter approval which apparently Mr. Evers thinks is not about to happen. So, he launched PLAN B. After voting to approve the borrowing, he and his Conservative Board ally Councilman Kern are apparently going to flip flop and attempt to disapprove a required vote on their proposal. Mr. Evers apparently believes that voters are hopping mad and will resoundingly tell both he and the contractor to take a hike, preferring instead, litigation to get the money back. (What may soon happen to recover the $83,000 from Evers he illegally gave to Casale Excavating.)
The Town Board must hold the vote within 75 days of the receipt of the voter petitions demanding it and that deadline is fast approaching in early May. So the only way to stop an embarrassing miscalculation is to withdraw the proposal and deny voters the right to vote. Sound familiar?
The devious part of the plan is that the Conservatives may try to reopen the water dollar pipeline by putting forth a new bonding proposal later, thereby requiring voters to proceed with yet another exhausting exercise of gathering two hundred more signatures. Just like the days when school boards tried to wear down voters by putting up again and again the same big tax hike budgets until voter turnout diminished, Mr. Evers in concert with the Conservative Chairman who is part of Casale Excavating, will likely try again to grab our cash by withdrawing the petitioned bonding proposal and initiate another later.
Let’s hope the rest of the town board respects the meaning of this petition requesting referendum and lets voters speak loud and clear to Mr. Evers, Mr. Kern and the rest of the Conservative gang trying to buy political support with our tax dollars. Time to have a good old fashioned VOTE and time to tell the contractor to hang up his attempt to run the town through the town board by controlling local political parties that endorse our candidates.