It’s hard to imagine how Mark Evers could have allowed the town to be in a position of being fined by the State for failing to comply with the Storm Water Management requirements he was repeatedly warned about during 2007. Warned by the man he could not wait to fire, the PE hired by the Board to supervise the unionized employees in the Building Department and bring a degree of professional expertise to the department. That gentleman was Ranson Caola, a US Navy veteran, graduate of Annapolis and holder of a Masters Degree in Engineering as well as a State licensed Professional Engineer. That wasn’t good enough for Mark Evers and his buddies in the county Civil Service who used an outdated 30 year old job description to ice Caola after just 6 days on the job.
His impact however, was not unnoticed with a sterling report to the Board during that week that warned of the Town’s failure to begin the Storm Water Management process to comply with the State. After Evers fired him, without pay, Caola returned to a Board meeting and gave a slide show on the Storm Water Management issues and warned of the stiff fined the town would face if they did not act. Evers did not heed the warnings and when the work was submitted late to ENCON, the town was hit with a consent order, and purportedly a $5,000 or more fine. Last night the Board was forced to pay. Thanks Mark and those sterling folks in the Building Department he tries to protect.
Germano Returns!
His impact however, was not unnoticed with a sterling report to the Board during that week that warned of the Town’s failure to begin the Storm Water Management process to comply with the State. After Evers fired him, without pay, Caola returned to a Board meeting and gave a slide show on the Storm Water Management issues and warned of the stiff fined the town would face if they did not act. Evers did not heed the warnings and when the work was submitted late to ENCON, the town was hit with a consent order, and purportedly a $5,000 or more fine. Last night the Board was forced to pay. Thanks Mark and those sterling folks in the Building Department he tries to protect.
Germano Returns!
Jimmy is back from Florida and we could not believe he attended a Board meeting last nght. Most likely to join in support of his Conservative buddies from Casale Excavating who still want more money from their never ending contract in Water 14. At issue is the retainage fees which are held back from each payment as an insurance that the work is done and done right. Trouble is the money appears to be spent on overpayments and the town has no more authority to pay him any more. With the work unfinished, looks like Casale will go to court and try to force the town to borrow more from taxpayers to continue to pay him. Then again the town could go to court and try to enforce the contract in a way that benefits taxpayers.
While Germano did not speak, the minions of his supporters did including Lou Cotrona, chair of the old Citizens Club which morphed into the Reformed Democrats who narrowly took control of the Democratic Party turning into a division of the County GOP.
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