Under fire, Desso exits meeting early

It was a rough night for Lou Desso getting questioned about whether he ever paid the contractor for his 10k share of his sewer district. He was also questioned about his apparent hiring of the town. engineering firm for his personal application for the sewer district before the planning board. No ethical problem there, right. And did he pay for the services?

Well Lou insisted he paid Casale even though Casale told the Times-Union last month he hadn't even billed Desso. So, free soil, free grading, free sewer extension, free engineering work and who knows what else. He almost got a free fundraiser until a Judge ordered him to pay the maximum amount she could, $5,000.

Of course Lou refuses to pay the balance of his bill, $1270.00 and that's why on this 3 year anniversary of his past-due bill, Lou was to be given a souvenir reminder of his debt. But Lou took off and avoided the public comment. So Lou, here's you souvenir!

 

Sewer extension discussion PT 1

 Ethics Board Appointments

Ethics Board

 At last month's meeting, a seven month long charade was exposed when it was disclosed at public comment that the ethics board appointed in January was neither notified of their appointments or signed the oath book as required within 30 days of appointment. Failing to sign caused the appointments to be void and that's where the town stood for the past 7 months despite Mr. Desso repeatedly pretending it was in place.

So last night the board reappointed an Ethics Board whose first job will be to review a request from Councilwoman Sabo on the ethics of the building inspector building houses in North Greenbush. This one is a slam dunk given the language of the law, however, Desso put two loyalists on the board including the councilman defeated by Sabo in the last election, leaving only the pastor of St. Jude's Church as the independent on the three man board. Talk about walking into a political buzz saw.

You can read about the board meeting in the Times Union, here.