Quoted from Patches

Give your sermon to someone who will believe it.......DM controls a lot......and HB is the one who is in the forefront....along with

the Town Board.......FDG will prevail in my book.....and say what you want.....they used him and spit him out....they all got what they wanted

and now they ALL decide what's up.////so tell your tale to someone who is naive about this town and its politics.....there is no such thing as the TB making

decisions...decisions are made in private.....and they all are in on it....

all you need is 7000 friends and you can do the same - fire every one and hire your friends and make decisions in private

no stupid friends = no fun



it's all a front for whatever goes on....

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ROTTERDAM
Macejka made full-time assessor
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter



    John Macejka Jr. will soon be back on the job full-time.
    Members of the Town Board approved a resolution restoring the former part-time assessor to a fulltime position during their meeting Monday. He was given a $66,600 annual salary with 20 days vacation, five days bereavement and a $3,000 buyout for health insurance. The appointment was made on a 4-1 vote.
    Supervisor Harry Buffardi said Macejka’s full-time position will begin effective Sept. 17 and extend through September 2013, at which time board members will have to decide whether to reappoint him. He said the 25 contested assessments and 35 tax challenges fi led against the town this year highlighted the need to have a full-time assessor.
    Buffardi also cited the recent payment-in-lieu of taxes agreement with General Electric and an uptick in development as times when the town could have used a full time assessor.
    “We have had some issues with not having a full-time assessor,” he said during the meeting. The parttime assessor, “doesn’t appear to be working out.”
    Board member Robert Godlewski didn’t agree. He said Buffardi didn’t seem to have an issue with having a part-time assessor when he took office in January.
LONG SAGA
    Macejka’s appointment is the latest in a long saga between him and the town. He was employed by Rotterdam from July 2003 until December 2007, when the Republican-led board replaced him with Craig Surprise in 2008.
    In February 2008, board members agreed to pay Macejka about $8,000 for 259 hours worth of vacation leave he had banked while employed by the town. About six months later, he was hired to replace the retiring assessor of the town of Guilderland in Albany County.
    Macejka came back to Rotterdam in 2010, after Supervisor Frank Del Gallo forced Surprise from offi ce by halving his pay. Only Macejka came back under the agreement that he’d work part-time — about 17.5 hours per week — so he could stagger his office hours before and after his time in Guilderland.
    Then in February, Macejka was fired by Guilderland. He has since filed a lawsuit against Guilderland for back pay and reinstatement to his job, claiming that board fi red him without cause.
    Macejka continued on as the parttime assessor in Rotterdam, earning a salary of $33,305. Godlewski said increasing his position to full-time — essentially doubling his salary — is fi scally irresponsible during a time when the town is facing a tough fi nancial outlook.
    “I see no reason to make this a full-time job,” he said.