Quoted from Shadow

Funny how Eunice was able to transcribe the minutes but it's too hard for poor Diane to do.

Quoted from Shadow

Funny how Eunice was able to transcribe the minutes but it's too hard for poor Diane to do.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

One would have to be aware of the full scope of work that is done in the Town Clerk's Office to actually make any informed comments about the issue.   Transcribing the minutes of Town Board meetings is just TINY part of the many tasks and functions that are performed in the office.  Basically -- the town had a choice continue to pay a civil service employee to transcribe the verbatim minutes (which are required by law) or hire a stenographer to take the verbatim minutes during the meeting itself.

A reasonable person -- such as myself -- can see that the Town Clerk was acting in good faith and believed that it was more cost efficient to hire a stenographer.  

Quoted from 55tbird

So its OK for DM to hire one w/o budgetted funds  and without town board approval?

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Read what I typed -- and THAT is the message that I chose to convey.   Anything you or the other nayboobs try to "read into" what was actually typed is just another feeble attempt to deceive or lie or otherwise "muddy the waters".

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Read what I typed -- and THAT is the message that I chose to convey.   Anything you or the other nayboobs try to "read into" what was actually typed is just another feeble attempt to deceive or lie or otherwise "muddy the waters".

Quoted from CICERO

Can someone find Buffardi's quote in the newspaper about FDG improperly donating his salary to the veteran memorial. These clowns ran on straightening out Town Hall, and two months in we have an ex town board member spending money without the Town Board approval. FDG made procedural mistakes because he never worked in government.  What is the excuse for these idiots?

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ROTTERDAM
Board spars again over monument
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Incoming town Supervisor Harry Buffardi will ask for a state audit of the Del Gallo administration’s finances, following a revelation that the outgoing supervisor may have violated the town’s procurement policy in building a veteran’s memorial.
    Buffardi said he likely would have asked for the state Comptroller’s Office to review the town’s finances anyway, to gain a better understanding of how the administration conducted business over the past two years. But given how material was purchased for the monument outside Town Hall, he said a full audit seems called for prior to the new administration taking offi ce.
    Buffardi said invoices from the project appear to show Supervisor Frank Del Gallo reimbursing his friends for materials that he originally characterized as donated. Del Gallo did not collect his $13,000 salary this year and claims he transferred money to pay for the monument from his salary line in the budget.
    “It smacks of impropriety,” Buffardi said Thursday. “It’s highly inappropriate to bill back for services that have already been completed.”
    Buffardi’s comments came a day after members of the Town Board met for the last time this year. Like many before it, Wednesday’s meeting was characterized by verbal sparring between Del Gallo and board member Nicola DiLeva.
    Del Gallo blasted the board for making an issue of a benevolent project that was only partially built with his donated salary. He said those board members claiming the monument cost tax dollars are spreading lies and sullying the contributions of all the people who made the project possible.
    “I don’t know if someone is being dishonest,” he growled during the meeting. “If they are, they’re all wet.”
    DiLeva said Del Gallo’s salary was not his to donate. Once he didn’t accept the money, she said it had to go back into the town’s general fund and couldn’t have been allocated without board approval.
    Board member Wayne Calder said Del Gallo appeared to have spent his entire salary on the project before he even received the pay. Rotterdam supervisors who accept their salaries receive pay on a biweekly basis, meaning Del Gallo wouldn’t have been able to use his accrued salary money to cover the bulk of the invoices received by the town until the last week of his term.
    “You spent it before you got it,” Calder said.
    Calder stressed that he doesn’t believe Del Gallo intended to do anything wrong or stole from the town. . .......................>>>>...................>>>>.................................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r02001&AppName=1