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Except when you forget.  Gotcha.

If you can do any better ...  you can volunteer to be our unpaid clerical assistant.

Ron I thought you weren't a public official? Now you have the authority to give out government jobs? Or are you admitting to another crime here?

Quoted from black spidey

Ron I thought you weren't a public official? Now you have the authority to give out government jobs? Or are you admitting to another crime here?

You must be ignorant -- a volunteer to serve as an unpaid secretary to the commission is NOT a government job.    No one on the commission is paid -- all volunteers.

Ron sorry but salary isn't what makes you an employee or officer...it's the work you do...

Quoted from 147

So, when you said:



You lied?

According to that statement, Decembers should have been approved in January - yet now you're saying they won't be approved till February's meeting.

Why the delay?

Kind of like when you lied when you wrote that we met  

Quoted from B GAGE

Kind of like when you lied when you wrote that we met  

Ya, just like that.  Brian, don't you know, when I grow up, I wanna be just like you - and have that UBER cool job, just like you - I just admire you so damn much.  You're smart, professional and hugely successful.  I'm so jealous.  Maybe it was wishful thinking.

That's funny....you just inserted the word UBER......cooooooollll

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Rotterdam supervisor Del Gallo won’t sign pact with law firm
Thursday, February 17, 2011
By Justin Mason (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

ROTTERDAM — Supervisor Frank Del Gallo won’t sign a contract with Rotterdam’s newly appointed law firm and intends to call for an outside probe into why three Town Board members abruptly selected the company without a bid.
Del Gallo said he will execute his right as the town’s chief financial officer in refusing to sign a $138,500 contact with the Albany-based law firm of Daniels and Porco. He said the three board members that approved the company’s hire did so in violation of the town’s purchasing policy, which states that any service over $50,000 must be put out to bid.
“No, I’m not hiring them,” he said succinctly during an interview at his business off Mariaville Road on Tuesday.
Del Gallo, who was flanked by Deputy Supervisor Robert Godlewski and former town labor attorney Bryan Goldberger, also questioned why the firm was selected without putting the service out to bid. They said the three board members who ultimately approved the hire never mentioned the firm when they were discussing the matter during an executive session prior to last week’s regular business meeting.
Del Gallo also plans to hire a private company to investigate if any public integrity laws were violated when Wayne Calder, Nicola DiLeva and Matt Martin decided to hire the company. He acknowledged the new voting bloc would likely shoot down the measure, but claims he’ll use his own salary to fund the probe if necessary.
Both Del Gallo and Godlewski accused the board members of trying to curry favor with the Schenectady County Conservative Party and organized labor so they can forward their own political aspirations. Calder and DiLeva are rumored to be seeking Del Gallo’s seat, but neither has formally announced they’re running for supervisor.
DiLeva and Calder said politics had nothing to do with hiring the law firm. They said the firm was selected specifically because it didn’t have ties to Rotterdam and would represent the entire board instead of answering only to the supervisor.
“This is another example of their distorted belief that the two of them alone have the authority to make decisions,” DiLeva said.
DiLeva, a Conservative, is completing the four-year term of John Silva, while Calder, a Democrat, is serving out the four-year term of Michael Della Villa. Della Villa and Silva were both elected in 2007 and both resigned in 2009.
Godlewski accused Calder of forwarding Daniels and Porco as a law firm at the behest of Rotterdam resident Robert Hamilton, a ranking member of the Conservatives with deep union ties. He said he and Del Gallo never knew about the law firm until Hamilton showed up in Town Hall one day advocating for them.
“In December, we were paid a visit by Bob Hamilton, who was singing the praises of this law firm,” he said.
Hamilton scoffed at the accusation. He said it was Del Gallo who approached him to ask about a new legal service last fall, when the supervisor became disgruntled with Town Attorney Joe Liccardi and his deputy, Michael Godlewski.
“Frank Del Gallo came to me and said he wasn’t satisfied with those guys,” he said.
Hamilton said Daniels and Porco came highly recommended by the people he asked. He said he has no ties to the law firm and had never heard of them before they were suggested to him by others.
Calls placed to Daniels and Porco were not returned Wednesday or Thursday.
Calder said the law firm was hired specifically because it has no connections within Rotterdam. He also noted that Del Gallo and Godlewski didn’t put the town’s legal services out to bid when they contracted out legal services after coming into office in 2010.
“It’s the right thing to do,” he said of hiring Daniels and Porco. “The wrong thing to do is hire people who do things for political reason.”
Calder said Daniels and Porco will also be as cost-efficient or less costly than the previous arrangement, considering the new firm will take care of “almost 99 percent” of the town’s legal needs. He said quarreling over the town’s legal services only serves to distract the board from more pressing issues facing Rotterdam.
“It’s really terrible for the community what’s happening,” he said. “We all have to start working together, but it’s almost an impossibility at this point.”
DiLeva doesn’t believe the supervisor can stop the board from entering into a contract with Daniels and Porco. She blamed Del Gallo and Godlewski for continuing to spitefully obstruct the progress they are trying to make.
“This not the town of Del Gallo and Godlewski, this is a the town of Rotterdam,” she said. “The three of us are trying to do the right thing for Rotterdam, instead of this circus that Frank Del Gallo and Bob Godlewski have created.”

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/feb/17/0218_rottlawfirm/

Who's in charge at Town Hall?  DelGallo?  DiLeva? Calder? Godlewski?  They all remind me of Alexander Haig
who proclaimed "I'm in Charge" the day that Reagan was shot.  The only Town Board member who is seemingly
not on a power trip is Matt Martin.  Perhaps, he should campaign for Supervisor.  

Copservatives are supporting/backing Calder and ND.
Matt is along for the ride.
Gadfly is helping their cause.

There IS a puppet master in the land of OZ!!

It is appearing that FDG/Godlewski just may  not be the 'controlling' ones here......perhaps?

So this attorney that has no connection to Rotterdam was the attorney Guidorelli brought in when he was trying to build the walmart..AND THE ATTORNEY CAME ON RECOMMENDATION from BOB HAMILTON!? Are you kidding me!? No connection...Nope, nothing at all to see here folks...

why do we have an ethics board?  someone? please?  

Guiderelli brought them on board to help get Walmart to Rotterdam as I recall.   Isnt Guiderelli close to Hamilton and the cons???

yall voted for him - that's all I can say.

Any way to have a recall election? Under what circumstances can the town supervisor be removed from office?

You asked for it you got it