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Reorganization Meeting Puts Residents on Alert as to How Future Town Board Meetings Will be Conducted
by Edward Paul Greiff
Newly sworn in Putnam Valley Supervisor Robert Tendy chaired his first Town Board Reorganization meeting on January 2, 2008. This annual occurrence is a legal requirement imposed upon all municipalities in which they must officially make these appointments before they can transact any municipal business in the new year.
But there is another outcome from such a meeting and that's the management style of the meeting's moderator; Town Supervisor Tendy. He set the tone and the mood for the meeting. It was well organized and dispensed with in an expeditious, efficient and business-like manner. For the most part audience interruptions were kept to a minimum and not allowed to disrupt the flow of the proceedings. But when it came to a Resolution to dissolve the Comprehensive Plan Committee the audience raised its objection, as did Councilwoman Wendy Whetsel.
Supervisor Tendy argued that the Committee was formed to develop a plan, they did their job, and now it was time to disband the Committee.
Councilwoman Whetsel and some members of the audience argued that the Committee members, in creating the Comprehensive Plan, had become extremely knowledgeable of the Town's needs. They knew what the Town wanted and how to accomplish those goals that would get the Town to where it wanted to go. And the Town would be remiss if they did not capitalize on this knowledge.
Councilwoman Whetsel then made a motion that the dissolution of the Comprehensive Plan Committee be tabled for a much longer discussion at the January 16, 2008 Town Board meeting. The motion was unanimously carried by the Town Board however, it left a bad taste in the mouth of the audience. They privately commented that "They (the Town Board) publish one thing in the agenda and then they do something else, you have to watch them."
Following is a list of the appointments made and contracts signed.
Town Board Committee, Board, and District Appointments:
Supervisor Tendy: Comprehensive Plan, Senior Citizens, Parks and Recreation, Disaster Assistance, and Emergency Services. Districts: Lake Peekskill, Lake Oscawana
Councilwoman Whetsel: Conservation, Town Hall Buildings, BAR, Assessor's Liaison. Districts: Mill Ponds, Continental Village, Abele Park, Putnam Chase.
Councilwoman Keresey: ABACA, Library, Employee Safety, Ethics. Districts: Hilltop, Northview, Wildwood.
Councilman Yetter: Planning Board, ZBA, School District, Highway, Comprehensive Plan. Districts: Lookout Manor, Roaring Brook, Sewer District, Strawberry Knolls.
Councilman Cinque: Arts, Recycling, Cable Utility, Justice Court. Districts: Barger Pond, Brookdale, Glenmar Gardens, Putnam Acres.
Supervisor's appointments: Deputy Supervisor Eugene Yetter $1,000.
Interim Administrative Assistant, Carol Hughes-DiMarco $32,000.
Director of Finance, Marianne DeSantis $62,130
Town Historian: Daniel T. Ricci
Appointments and salaries:
Town Supervisor Robert Tendy $70,000
Chief Budget Officer, Robert Tendy $7,280
Town Councilpersons (Keresey, Whetsel, Tendy, Yetter, Cinque) $13,000 each
Highway Superintendent Earl Smith $84,240
Town Justices Gina Capone and Louis DiCarlo $18,200 each
Town Clerk Eileen Royael $56,633
Registrar & Records Management, Eileen Royael $700
Receiver of Taxes Eileen Royael $1,112.80
Town Counsel William Zutt $85,000
Town Prosecutor: Gordon Fine $15,000
Town Engineer J. Robert Folchetti & Assoc. $18,000 annual cap
Building Inspector Irv Sevelowitz $60,746
Fire Prevention Inspector Irv Sevelowitz $5,252
Pump Station Custodian Irv Sevelowitz $3,650
Chairman Zoning Board of Appeals Peter Belefant
Ad-Hoc Planning Board member John Mahoney
Chairman Planning Board Michael Raimondi
Town Planner Chazen Engineering & Land Surveying Co. $12,800
Parks & Recreation Director Frank DiMarco $59,987
Chairperson Parks & Recreation Commission Philip Keating Jr.
Deputy Highway Superintendent Gary Wulfhop $60,050
Sign PV Volunteer Ambulance Corp Contract $234,000
Sign PV Volunteer Fire Department Contract $735,000
Sign PV Historical Society Contract $9,000
Sign PV Senior Citizens Annual Contract $9,000
Sign PV Library Annual Contract $240,240
Sign PV Veterans Foreign War $1,000
Sign PV American Legion Post Contract $500
Sign PV Transfer Station Lease with Orlando Inc. for $30,000
Sign Putnam County Office for the Aging Outreach Worker $15,000
Community Media Coordinator, Maryann Arrien, $50,000
Appoint Marriage Officer, Daniel T. Ricci, $0 Note: this empowers Ricci to marry couples.
The next regularly scheduled Town Board meeting occurs on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 7pm when they will hold two public hearings, one on outdoor wood boilers and the other on Cold War Veterans' tax exemptions.
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