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Letters to the Editor: Lack of Building Inspections Unacceptable
February 25, 2011
To the Editor:
As I read the article regarding the state ordering the Village to provide a code enforcement officer, I cannot help but feel this situation is totally unacceptable and was unavoidable to begin with.
Last year Anthony Missere stood before the Village Board at more then one public meeting and charged that Bruce Yancewicz's appointment as building inspector by Mayor Gross was illegal. Mr. Missere pointed out over and over again that Mr. Yancewicz did not meet the Village law residency requirement. Yet the Mayor made the appointment anyway. The law firm representing the Village at that time I believe was Rider, Weiner and Frankel. I wonder if they advised the Mayor against this.
That appointment has done nothing but cost the Village tax payers money and heartache. The Village is now entrenched in lawsuits as a result of that appointment and we are currently left without a code enforcement officer. I'd love to know what the final dollar figure on all that litigation is when it’s over. Even more importantly, we have a Village resident that may actually find himself homeless because of this! This is unacceptable to me and it should be to every Village Resident.
I was at the Village Board meeting where the Board authorized the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Town to provide us the use of their code enforcement officer until we could resolve our own issues. The Town agreed to do this, only now the Mayor has said it costs too much and we cannot afford it, so he wouldn't agree to it. Then he wants to criticize Mr. Edsall for attempting to actually get an agreement by going to the Town and, according to the article, said he was unaware the inspections were being done by the Town's code enforcement officer. You have got to be kidding me! How could he be unaware of this???
The time to look at costs (as well as materials) is before the horse is out of the barn. The horse is already out of this barn and you have to pay whatever the cost is to get it back in. The Town is not looking to gouge us for this service, but they are not going to do it for free. I am grateful to the Town for their efforts to help us.
A Building Inspector/ Code Enforcement Officer is a basic service that the Village Residents are being denied! Unacceptable!
You can say what you want about past administrations, but basic services were never denied to residents!
Perhaps the Mayor should have practiced some of his new-found caution early on and we would not be in this mess. It has become clear to me since Mayor Gross has been in office that his own agendas are his priority, not the Village residents.
Is it March yet?
Sincerely,
Kerry Merritt
Cornwall-on-Hudson
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