Williams Blew It
Councilman Williams has done it big this time; apart from embarrassing the town with the loss of a law suit, he and the rest of his Gang of Four have cost the town tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees not to mention printing costs on their worthless document known as, “The Comprehensive Plan”.
In 2005, Williams in his arrogance decided he was going to create a comprehensive plan for the town of Milan in eight months. Rhinebeck has been working on their comprehensive plan for three years, they are taking their time to be sure they do it right. Not pompous Williams, he was going to break all records, “damn the torpedoes, full speed head”. He went full speed head and he hit two torpedoes, Red Wing and The New York State Supreme Court.
Does Williams, Talmage and the rest of the gang know or care how much money they have cost the town on legal fees in producing a piece of rubbish. To add to the ignominy of the situation, Williams received an award from Talmage for his excellent work. It would be funny if it was no so pathetic. Is Williams going to acknowledge he bungled the situation and return his award?
Talmage in his incompetence, dismisses the ruling by The New York State Supreme Court as a minor procedural matter. The Court ruled three times on sections of the Comprehensive Plan as being “Null and Void”, and Talmage dismisses it as a minor procedural matter. That is not surprising coming from Supervisor Talmage considering his monthly overdrafts in the town’s accounts which he continues to dismiss as minor. He is over three years on the job and still has not figured it out.
Red Wing in the law suit is asking for their legal costs; you know who is going to pay that, The Milan Taxpayer. It looks like Red Wing will get the gravel mine, and they can thank Councilman Williams and the rest of the Gang of Four.
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posted by milanunited @ 11:22 AM
5 Comments:
Perhaps I am mistaken in this and I would appreciate any assistance.
Before the elimination of the floating industrial zone (through the Comprehensive Plan) was finalized, didn't the Attorney for the Town review it for any errors and omissions or deviation from required procedures? If so and then gave it his/her imprimatur then shouldn't the cost of appeal be assumed by the very same legal firm?
I don't believe I'm trying to be arbitrary or argumentative I would just like clarification.
Wait a second...I just read the editorial in this week's Register Herald. The editorial directs the law firm to forfeit its fees for the filing and attendant screw up for the floating idnucstrial zone. It's true...great minds do think alike.
You've got them on the run boys...they now see this blog as an THE MOST important element in town dicussions and have begun posting their rebuttals. They have no future and are doomed to lose this election. Congrats to Milan United - but don't rest on your laurels...keep hitting hard!
Well anonymous what you post is informative and I thank you for that, however, my question about the attorney was not answered. Are they going to "appeal" the decision pro bono because of their apparent failure?
As taxpayers and Milan residents we all have to take a look at the people who have been hired to provide legal advise to our elected town officials. It seems like we are paying a lot of money to create all these regulations (that we don't want anyway) only to have them overturned by the highest court in New York State. If I were a supporter of this current administration ,(or NOT!)I would be outraged! Thank you gang-of-four, for wasting more of my hard earned money.
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