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February 28, 2012
To the Editor:
The Village of Cornwall on Hudson has been in the paper a lot lately. Unfortunately, the reports are not good news.
The New York State Comptroller’s office did an audit of how the Village spends money and makes decisions, and has found a lot of severe problems. The Village paid $207,000 more than contracted to have an LDC build the municipal DPW building. The report states (there was): “No due diligence,” and “the village avoided the WICKS laws.” Wicks require municipalities to competitively bid projects, the Village usurped that requirement. The report goes on to say that we did 5.8 million dollars in fund transfers that were not approved by the board, and not accurately recorded. Serious infractions that every taxpayer should be outraged about.
On Monday night, February 27th, we had the first board meeting since the report came out. Barbara Gosda and I made a motion to do a certified audit on the matters brought up by the comptroller. The purpose is to know where the taxpayer’s money is. After all, isn’t that an important issue, especially when more taxpayer money is to be spent to repair this DPW building?
Unfortunately, Trustee Kane, Edsall, and Mayor Coyne refuse to have an accountant do a certified audit. Oh, they had all types of excuses, they attacked the comptroller’s report, claiming that the NYS Comptroller’s office “was speaking out of both sides of their mouth”.
It makes me wonder. If you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Should we just throw the blanket over this important issue? Pretend nothing happened, and move forward? Disregard the taxpayer and their money and then demand they spend more money?
We made some critical mistakes in the past. Part of the solution is being able to admit them, deal with them, and not repeat them. Jim Kane, Mark Edsall, and Mayor Coyne have become the problem. By claiming the information in the New York State Comptrollers report is incorrect doesn’t makes it so. Their arrogance and contempt for the taxpayers was evident last night as they continually interrupted and silenced residents after three minutes of public comment, refusing to answer a single question.
We have an obligation to find where every dime went. Failing that, we fail the Village, the taxpayer, and ourselves.
Andrew Argenio
Trustee
Cornwall-on-Hudson
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At the cost of $50,000.00 ?? Can the TAXPAYERS afford it ??
posted by Vishwa Chaudhry on 03/02/12 at 5:44 PM
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We had 100,000.00 in contingency. 50,000 to look into$ 5,800,000.00 and $207,000.00 of un accounted for money. The sheet provided to the board is un verified by the Comptroller or an accountant. An audit is clearly in order.
posted by Andrew Argenio on 03/03/12 at 3:59 PM
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How can Gosda and Argenio complain about the tax increase but they demand an audit that cost $50,000? An audit that was not only done twice but was done once for free. That $50,000 audit equals to an extra 2% tax increase. These are the two that are so concerned about the tax payers. What a joke.
posted by james horne on 03/11/12 at 5:42 PM
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