The town's Ethics Board convened this morning and went into an Executive Session claiming a discussion of "personnel matters". There are two sets of correspondence to the Board seeking opinions on the Building Department chief's private business enterprise building homes in the town and questions about the Supervisor's potential ethics problems as detailed in a letter to the board posted on this blog from Ron Sinico.
After an hour behind closed doors, the board provided no information on what was discussed or whether any vote took place. Under the Open Meetings Law if any vote took place they must make the results public within 48 hours and provide the minutes of the meeting.
An attorney was hired, Brian Goldberger, because the attorney appointed by the town board recused himself due to a business relationship with Building Department head Michael Miner.
When asked whether they have scheduled another meeting, the Chair of the Board, Mark Ahern gave a curt "no".
So as it stands we don't have any resolutions to the serious questions about the conduct of two town officials and no idea when this board will meet again. Given the highly partisan connection of two ethics board members appointed by the town board, we should not expect they will find anything wrong with the conduct of anyone in town government. We also don't know how much the newly hired attorney will cost the town.
Stay tuned...
After an hour behind closed doors, the board provided no information on what was discussed or whether any vote took place. Under the Open Meetings Law if any vote took place they must make the results public within 48 hours and provide the minutes of the meeting.
An attorney was hired, Brian Goldberger, because the attorney appointed by the town board recused himself due to a business relationship with Building Department head Michael Miner.
When asked whether they have scheduled another meeting, the Chair of the Board, Mark Ahern gave a curt "no".
So as it stands we don't have any resolutions to the serious questions about the conduct of two town officials and no idea when this board will meet again. Given the highly partisan connection of two ethics board members appointed by the town board, we should not expect they will find anything wrong with the conduct of anyone in town government. We also don't know how much the newly hired attorney will cost the town.
Stay tuned...
2 comments:
the so called meeting was an insult to the taxpayers right to know. the board thumbed their collective noses at open meetings. they would not allow public comments or questions. ethics board, I think not ,who paid the lawyer? was there a town board ok to hire a lawyer? the board should be ashamed of themselves and resign !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the ethics board should be investigated by JSCOPE...
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