Yesterday around noon I dropped off documentation with DA Brad Schimel asking that he investigate and respond to me regarding the December 17th meeting. My charge is that the use of closed session for the purpose of this discussion was not legal. The agenda for the meeting claimed an exemption from public discussion, in essence, based on contract negotiation. Well, the TB decided not to negotiate. Therefore I can only assume that the discussion must not have been negotiation strategy, but what to tell the Town to justify the decision to not negotiate with the Village. This is evidenced by the decision immediately after the closed session to dissolve the Joint Fire Department.
My position is that this discussion should have been held in open session and over the course of multiple meetings to allow people to comment before this decision was made. If you agree, please consider attending and making comment at the 1/7/10 Town Board meeting.
I suggest that an alternate strategy be developed to fix the current department, not dissolve it.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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Dear Mr. Doble
ReplyDeleteThis blog is a good idea and I wish more people would read this. The Big Bend/Vernon Fire Department is caught in the sights of the new Town Board since they took office. These Board Members have no clue what it is going to take to start a Fire Department. Yet to try to dissolve the current one.
The impact of their actions in desolving the Fire Department will be far reaching. Why if the Vernon Chairman and the Big Bend Village President had an agreement, did the Vernon Town Board go and break it and dissolve the Fire Department??
Are we really going to have the same service?? How can we?? Cutting out the Village is like cutting an arm off of the body. You can still work and do things, but it will be more difficult.
What about our Paramedic Service? I heard that it will end and our care prior to going to the hospital will going down.
What about my home owners insurance?? Does the Town Board even know how much this will cost the taxpayer??
I feel everyone in the Town should be asking questions of each and everyone of the their Town Board Memebers. They pass this in the middle of the night when no one can watch on TV and everyone is getting ready for the holidays. They are just like the Democrats in Congress that passed health care in the middle of the night.
We need better answers than them telling us that is because of Big Bend putting in a sewer system or annexation. The Town Board is probably why these people are leaving the Town to go to the Village.
Time to vote for a change.....