The sellout settlement of Water 14 with the Conservative Contractor was also approved giving the contractor who chairs the Conservative Party another 1.1 million dollars and forces the entire town to pay for it.
A rough breakdown of the settlement includes $268,000 reimbursement for money improperly paid from the General Fund to the contractor with the Supervisor's full knowledge. Yep, that's proof of a performance bonus for the Supervisor if there ever was one!
Also included is $410,000 in unpaid vouchers and another $50,000 in attorney fees. $340,000 is to be paid in future to Casale to finish project.Not a bad payday coming just 11 months after the Conservative Contractor endorsed the new board majority.
Evers indicated he might not run again. That's not a surprise since no one other than his Conservative Party contractor friends would support or endorse him. There's only so much damage one man can do in a year and North Greenbush will survive four years of lawless conduct and shotgun politics by this supervisor.
CH 6 News covered the meeting and you can watch their report here and read it here. (There is a brief commercial.)
The Record also has a report which you can read here.
6 comments:
Please in all fairness lets not forget about Mark Premo and his greed for a raise. I agree with you about Katy and Mark Evers but Premo is in it for himself as well be fair.
Your comment is without validity based upon the FACT that Premo's raise request was 3% while the town clerk asked for 8% in the budget she submitted for her department. Her deputy was to receive 3% in that same request.
Also, to be fair, the town clerk is also the Registrar. In this budget request, she added $2000 in Personel Services and did not disclose that more than 40% of that request was to go into her pocket while the Deputy Registrar was to get 3%.
If Premo had requested a raise greater than 3%, had he asked for an outrageous 8% or 42% or as in the case of Evers, 280%, this blog would have been "fair" by criticizing the request.
Mr. Premo's actions in budget requests were not indicative of greed, but rather fiscal restraint and respect for taxpayers.
We hope upon review of the facts, you will agree,
Sorry I have to disagree. Mark Premo was giving a 3% raise as others back when the Republicans were in office and he was upsetabout it as well as Katy when the Democratics took over they gave him more money after they changed the budget he helped cause the deficit. Mark continues to look out for himself
We disagree with your assessment and attempt to connect cost of living raises with the large deficit created by the Ashe team by failing to make a payment to the State Retirement System so they could run on false claims of a tax cut. That deficit rest squarely on the failure to pay the bills, not on anyone's 3% raises.
Sorry once again you defend who you want and blame who you don't like. You know the truth about the retirement cost. You can blame Ashe all you want. You know he did what was right for this town and you lied about it.
You obviously do not like the response we provided. The voters disagreed strenuously with your assessment of Ashe and company. Do you recall one night with a union contract Ashe crossed out a negotiated 20 year health insurance benifit and made it just 10 years? His buddies went right along with him. That's not looking after the town. That's giving money away to get votes from a special interest.
Let's agree to diagree on this. Enough said.
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