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March 11, 2011
To the Editor:
Now that the Mayor has decided to sue the Village and the three Trustees who have been trying to get the work of the Village done, it is time to take off the gloves and ask some hard questions of Mr. Gross.
Mr. Mayor, who had a more transparent and democratic process in selection of the Attorney for the Village, the current board majority or you as part of the “3 G majority”? Let me help you remember the real history, not your contrived fictitious version.
In April 2008, when you as part of the newly created 3G majority, threw Jacobowitz and Gubits out as the law firm for the Village, you did so by a Board vote without any advertisement for services, nor any alternative interviews before the full board. When the current Board looked for a change, we prepared a Request for Qualifications in public, advertised, agreed as a group (you included) with what firms should be short-listed, held multiple interviews (you included) and then democratically voted for the firm of choice. Who had a more transparent open democratic process? Easy answer: the current Board.
Mr. Mayor, can you explain why you commented on the RFQ, sat in on the interviews and at no time objected to the process until you didn’t like the results? When you, as part of the 3Gs, first came into a majority and made a change in law firms, did you care that it was not a 5-0 vote?
Mr. Mayor, you have repeatedly stated that (and have now sued the Village and your fellow Board members) the Mayor has always selected the attorney. Could you please explain the votes in April 2008 and April 2009 which were motions of a Trustee and a vote of the Board to select the Village Law firm? Can you explain the difference between this Board’s vote in April 2010 and those two prior Board votes, other than the fact you didn’t like the results this time?
Mr. Mayor, it is clear that the current Board majority is more democratic and transparent than your administration, which promised to have an “open-door, transparent government”, but has miserably failed. Your purposeful misrepresentations to the public are both disingenuous and hypocritical. And now you are costing the taxpayers thousands of dollars with your lawsuit in an attempt to have the court support your goal of squashing the democratic process and justify your desire for a dictatorship.
Well, I hope the taxpayer residents of the Village have had enough and see your hypocrisy. I urge them to vote for Brendan Coyne for Mayor, and return myself and Doug Vatter to the Village Board so we can do the democratic work of the people, work together to make progress on all the items you have obstructed, and put an end to the bickering which has been caused by the Gross administration, and its inability to realize that there are five members of the Village Board, not one mayor and four observers.
Mark Edsall
Trustee
Cornwall-on-Hudson
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