POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 15th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - ALREADY A DONE DEAL LONG AGO"
Yes, people, the decision to approve this water district no. 2 is not out ahead of us, as we have been led to believe by what passes for "government" in the town of Poestenkill, where “feeding off taxpayers” is not a crime, nor is dishonesty by public officials a federal offense, in a recent public notice by order of the Poestenkill town board that a public hearing will be held on the matter at the fire house at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2024 where all interested persons in this matter will supposedly have an opportunity to be heard.
To the contrary, the decision to formally approve water district no. 2 in its entirety is far behind us, as it was taken roughly two years ago now by Keith Hammond, Eric Wohlleber, June Butler, David Hass and Harold Van Slyke in August of 2022, when they accepted a Map, Plan and Report showing the district boundary prepared for them by this Laberge crowd, which decision was followed by the issuance of a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, which declared as follows:
Upon review of the information recorded on this EAF, as noted, plus this additional support information within the attached Preliminary Engineering Report and considering both the magnitude and importance of each identified potential impact, it is the conclusion of the Town of Poestenkill as lead agency that:
A. This project will result in no significant adverse impacts on the environment, and, therefore, an environmental impact statement need not be prepared.
Accordingly, this negative declaration is issued.
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Now, the key phrase in that statement made by the Poestenkill town board, the official governing body of the town of Poestenkill on September 8, 2022, as they very slickly pulled the wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting people of Poestenkill, is "plus this additional support information within the attached Preliminary Engineering Report," wherein it was made incandescently clear to every person in Poestenkill, whether or not you even knew the report existed, or you bothered to read the report, or were unable to understand it, that in actuality, water district no. 2, which has already been approved by the town board, consisted of two phases, with Phase 1 consisting of installing water infrastructure from District No. 1 to the middle school, down Liberty Lane, and throughout Algonquin Estates, and Phase 2 then continuing the water infrastructure down Route 66 to the Town of Sand Lake border, which due to increased elevations, will require a new water storage tank and booster pump station to provide all of the areas within this phase with the required water pressure with the storage tank proposed location at the end of Vosburgh Road at a much higher elevation than the remainder of the district, requiring the installation of pressure reducing valves within the areas in order to limit the maximum pressure entering the low elevation zones.
That, people, is what has already been approved by the Poestenkill town board, so that this supposed public hearing proposed for April 25, 2004 is nothing but a farce.
Go back to the August 2022 engineering report each and every one of you were supposed to read, whether or not you are able to read, and scroll down until you come to Appendix "L", a "Smart Growth Assessment Form" signed by then-supervisor Keith Hammond on August 30, 2022, and go to question no. 8 in section 3, "does the project involve community-based planning and collaboration," where Hammond stated to the NY Department of Health Environmental Facilities Corporation that "the town will collaborate with the community to determine which customers want to be included in the new water district and the feasibility of inclusion," and then ask yourselves this important question, to wit: WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?
And the answer is that it never did and when Hammond made that statement on August 30, 2022, AFTER he had already accepted the engineering report, he was, in plain words, lying, which has been the hallmark of this FLIM-FLAM and HORNSWOGGLE right from the very beginning.
THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 15th 2024 Supplemental Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - AND STILL THE LIES FLOW FORTH FREELY"
Why does Poestenkill lie to us?
Because it can is that simple answer, and for case in point, let's simply go to the hearing notice for the April 25th, 2004 so-called public hearing on water district no. 2, which is going to be nothing more than a farce, a continuation of this masterful con-job being played on us here by Poestenkill and this Laberge crowd, wherein is stated as follows, to wit:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Poestenkill will continue a public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2.
The proposed Water District No. 2 will include the extension of public water from an existing water main in Snyders Corner Road to the intersection of Route 66 and Route 351 by the Algonquin Middle School, connecting to the existing water system at Route 66.
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But that is not true, and we all know it's not true and Democrat Russell and his cronies on the town board all know its not true, as does town attorney Andy Gilchrist, and yet, that is what we are told, because it important that on April 25, 2024, none of us will have a clue as to what we are doing there, BY INTENT, and for Laberge, and some people in Poestenkill, the deal will be done and that will be that and for them once again, peace will reign over their land and we will be the ones footing the bill for it, for the rest of our lives, and make no mistake about that.
What we do know that makes that a willfully false statement by Democrat Russell and his town board cronies is that the pipe down Rt. 66 will connect to the Algonquin School, and then cross Rt. 66 and go down Rt. 351 to Liberty Lane, and then down Liberty Lane, and we know water district no. 2 in actuality extends all the way to the town of Sand Lake, but despite all of that, the town board still willfully chooses to sucker us and delude us by telling us it's just a harmless pipe down in the ground, and that is all it is, nothing to see here, folks, everybody go back home, and trust us to keep you safe and secure.
The Russell public hearing notice then continues as follows, exposing his intentional lie above here, to wit:
The Map, Plan and Report sets forth the description of the boundaries of proposed Water District No. 2, a description of the proposed improvements, a computation of the costs of the proposed improvements, the proposed method of financing the costs of the proposed district, and the annual estimated cost to the typical property in the proposed district area.
Also included in the Map, Plan and Report is a detailed explanation of how the estimated cost of the proposed district to the typical property was computed.
The maximum amount to be expended for the proposed district is $5,550,000.00.
The estimated cost of the proposed district to the typical one-family residential property located in the proposed district area during the first year in which operation, maintenance, water service and debt service is to be paid is $676.00.
The estimated cost of the proposed district for properties located within the proposed district area may be determined from information in the Map, Plan and Report.
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Except when we actually do go to the report, and are able to make our way through its intentional density, what we find in Appendix N, the very last pages of the report, titled "Preliminary Opinion of Cost," is a note that states in clear and unambiguous language that "No data is available at this time to estimate the volume of rock removal required. The estimate provided is strictly a place holder."
And yet Poestenkill, knowing there is ledge rock at least from Algonquin School along 351 and down Liberty Lane treats that number given, $175,000, this in order to deceive us, since it is a slick con job or scam they are pulling on us, as an absolute number.
And the fact that the costs for Phase Two, which is the rest of Poestenkill to Sand lake not now included in Phase One, as this segment of the total is being called, are given, makes it clear to any reviewing authority, i.e. a state supreme court justice, that indeed the residents of Poestenkill were given full and fair notice of what they were voting on, so they have no leg to stand on when the full costs hit home.
We know from Appendix J, "Water Supply and Transportation Agreements," wherein we find a contract signed and sealed by7 Poestenkill, titled "WATER TRANSPORTATION AGREEMENT TOWN OF BRUNSWICK AND TOWN OF POESTENKILL," wherein is stated "AGREEMENT made this 29th of September, 2009, by and between the TOWN OF BRUNSWICK, a municipal corporation and political and geographic subdivision of the County of Rensselaer and State of New York, having offices at the Brunswick Town Hall located at 336 Town Office Road, Troy, New York 12180, in the Town of Brunswick, New York (hereinafter referred to as "BRUNSWICK"), and the TOWN OF POESTENKILL, also a municipal corporation and political and geographic subdivision of the County of Rensselaer and State of New York, having offices at the Poestenkill Town Hall located at 38 Davis Drive, Poestenkill, New York 12140 (hereinafter referred to as "POESTENKILL"), in paragraph 19, titled "Adjustment of the Transportation Charge Between Changes in the City Rate," as follows:
The amount of the water transportation charge provided for in paragraph 11 of this Agreement, an amount equal to 25% of the rate per thousand gallons of water paid by POESTENKILL to TROY under its Water Supply Agreement with TROY (the "City Rate"), may be adjusted at the sole and exclusive discretion of BRUNSWICK on an annual basis commencing January 1, 2011, in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, this paragraph.
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And we are not informed of that, by intent, with the numbers given being treated as hard and fast when they are anything but.
We next go to Appendix F, "SEQRA Negative Declaration," in section D. Project Details, where in D.1. Proposed and Potential Development, we find question e, which asks "Will the proposed action be constructed in multiple phases?" to which the town answered in the negative, when the report makes it crystal clear that the proposed action will in fact be constructed in multiple phases, so more lies.
And then we come up to Appendix A, that being 30 pages in, which appendix is inappropriately named "figures," where in fact we find no figures but instead find a map showing water district no 2 going all the way to the Sand Lake line, so nobody can say come April 25th, 2024 that they didn't know what they were really voting for.
In V. ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS, at p. 19, under 7) Water Supply Limitations, we find as follows:
The water supply for the district is Water District No. 1 and Water District No. 1’s water supply is limited by its contractual relationship with the Town of Brunswick. As noted previously, the maximum pumping rate allowed during the day is 100 gpm and 150 gpm in the evening. The maximum daily supply is 165,000 gpd. Water District No. 1 currently (2022) is using approximately 97,000 gpd on average, leaving an average of 67,000 gpd available for District No. 2. This is insufficient for the total water system demand from Phase 1 and 2, which requires roughly 67,000 gpd.
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So this is hardly a safe and reliable source of water for Poestenkill and to make it safe, we will be on the hook for an additional sum of several hundreds of thousands to compensate Brunswick for upgrades to their system, so we are being buried with hidden costs here.
And then we come to this whopper at page 1 in section I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, to wit:
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
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Except there is no priority for Poestenkill to tax its residents to pay for providing municipal water to the Algonquin School, which is already a listed public water supply with a granular carbon filter, and it has no need of water from Troy.
Confused?
Of course you are because this is a con and for the con to work you have to be confused.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 15th 2024 Supplemental Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - AND STILL THE LIES FLOW FORTH FREELY"
Why does Poestenkill lie to us?
Because it can is that simple answer, and for case in point, let's simply go to the hearing notice for the April 25th, 2004 so-called public hearing on water district no. 2, which is going to be nothing more than a farce, a continuation of this masterful con-job being played on us here by Poestenkill and this Laberge crowd, wherein is stated as follows, to wit:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Poestenkill will continue a public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2.
The proposed Water District No. 2 will include the extension of public water from an existing water main in Snyders Corner Road to the intersection of Route 66 and Route 351 by the Algonquin Middle School, connecting to the existing water system at Route 66.
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But that is not true, and we all know it's not true and Democrat Russell and his cronies on the town board all know its not true, as does town attorney Andy Gilchrist, and yet, that is what we are told, because it important that on April 25, 2024, none of us will have a clue as to what we are doing there, BY INTENT, and for Laberge, and some people in Poestenkill, the deal will be done and that will be that and for them once again, peace will reign over their land and we will be the ones footing the bill for it, for the rest of our lives, and make no mistake about that.
What we do know that makes that a willfully false statement by Democrat Russell and his town board cronies is that the pipe down Rt. 66 will connect to the Algonquin School, and then cross Rt. 66 and go down Rt. 351 to Liberty Lane, and then down Liberty Lane, and we know water district no. 2 in actuality extends all the way to the town of Sand Lake, but despite all of that, the town board still willfully chooses to sucker us and delude us by telling us it's just a harmless pipe down in the ground, and that is all it is, nothing to see here, folks, everybody go back home, and trust us to keep you safe and secure.
The Russell public hearing notice then continues as follows, exposing his intentional lie above here, to wit:
The Map, Plan and Report sets forth the description of the boundaries of proposed Water District No. 2, a description of the proposed improvements, a computation of the costs of the proposed improvements, the proposed method of financing the costs of the proposed district, and the annual estimated cost to the typical property in the proposed district area.
Also included in the Map, Plan and Report is a detailed explanation of how the estimated cost of the proposed district to the typical property was computed.
The maximum amount to be expended for the proposed district is $5,550,000.00.
The estimated cost of the proposed district to the typical one-family residential property located in the proposed district area during the first year in which operation, maintenance, water service and debt service is to be paid is $676.00.
The estimated cost of the proposed district for properties located within the proposed district area may be determined from information in the Map, Plan and Report.
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Except when we actually do go to the report, and are able to make our way through its intentional density, what we find in Appendix N, the very last pages of the report, titled "Preliminary Opinion of Cost," is a note that states in clear and unambiguous language that "No data is available at this time to estimate the volume of rock removal required. The estimate provided is strictly a place holder."
And yet Poestenkill, knowing there is ledge rock at least from Algonquin School along 351 and down Liberty Lane treats that number given, $175,000, this in order to deceive us, since it is a slick con job or scam they are pulling on us, as an absolute number.
And the fact that the costs for Phase Two, which is the rest of Poestenkill to Sand lake not now included in Phase One, as this segment of the total is being called, are given, makes it clear to any reviewing authority, i.e. a state supreme court justice, that indeed the residents of Poestenkill were given full and fair notice of what they were voting on, so they have no leg to stand on when the full costs hit home.
We know from Appendix J, "Water Supply and Transportation Agreements," wherein we find a contract signed and sealed by7 Poestenkill, titled "WATER TRANSPORTATION AGREEMENT TOWN OF BRUNSWICK AND TOWN OF POESTENKILL," wherein is stated "AGREEMENT made this 29th of September, 2009, by and between the TOWN OF BRUNSWICK, a municipal corporation and political and geographic subdivision of the County of Rensselaer and State of New York, having offices at the Brunswick Town Hall located at 336 Town Office Road, Troy, New York 12180, in the Town of Brunswick, New York (hereinafter referred to as "BRUNSWICK"), and the TOWN OF POESTENKILL, also a municipal corporation and political and geographic subdivision of the County of Rensselaer and State of New York, having offices at the Poestenkill Town Hall located at 38 Davis Drive, Poestenkill, New York 12140 (hereinafter referred to as "POESTENKILL"), in paragraph 19, titled "Adjustment of the Transportation Charge Between Changes in the City Rate," as follows:
The amount of the water transportation charge provided for in paragraph 11 of this Agreement, an amount equal to 25% of the rate per thousand gallons of water paid by POESTENKILL to TROY under its Water Supply Agreement with TROY (the "City Rate"), may be adjusted at the sole and exclusive discretion of BRUNSWICK on an annual basis commencing January 1, 2011, in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, this paragraph.
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And we are not informed of that, by intent, with the numbers given being treated as hard and fast when they are anything but.
We next go to Appendix F, "SEQRA Negative Declaration," in section D. Project Details, where in D.1. Proposed and Potential Development, we find question e, which asks "Will the proposed action be constructed in multiple phases?" to which the town answered in the negative, when the report makes it crystal clear that the proposed action will in fact be constructed in multiple phases, so more lies.
And then we come up to Appendix A, that being 30 pages in, which appendix is inappropriately named "figures," where in fact we find no figures but instead find a map showing water district no 2 going all the way to the Sand Lake line, so nobody can say come April 25th, 2024 that they didn't know what they were really voting for.
In V. ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS, at p. 19, under 7) Water Supply Limitations, we find as follows:
The water supply for the district is Water District No. 1 and Water District No. 1’s water supply is limited by its contractual relationship with the Town of Brunswick. As noted previously, the maximum pumping rate allowed during the day is 100 gpm and 150 gpm in the evening. The maximum daily supply is 165,000 gpd. Water District No. 1 currently (2022) is using approximately 97,000 gpd on average, leaving an average of 67,000 gpd available for District No. 2. This is insufficient for the total water system demand from Phase 1 and 2, which requires roughly 67,000 gpd.
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So this is hardly a safe and reliable source of water for Poestenkill and to make it safe, we will be on the hook for an additional sum of several hundreds of thousands to compensate Brunswick for upgrades to their system, so we are being buried with hidden costs here.
And then we come to this whopper at page 1 in section I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, to wit:
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
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Except there is no priority for Poestenkill to tax its residents to pay for providing municipal water to the Algonquin School, which is already a listed public water supply with a granular carbon filter, and it has no need of water from Troy.
Confused?
Of course you are because this is a con and for the con to work you have to be confused.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 16th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - HOW WE HAVE BEEN SNOOKERED BUT GOOD"
To be "snookered," as we all were in August of 2022 when the Poestenkill town board took an action to accept as the official water district no. 2 boundary map a map as Appendix "A" in a "Report" by Laberge Engineering showing water district no. 2 extending from Snyders Corners Road on both sides of Rt. 66 easterly past Rt. 351 on both sides of 66 to the Sand Lake line and up to the end of Vosburgh Road where there will be a standpipe, means "to be deceived, cheated, or duped," and that is exactly what has been done to us, "us" being everyone residing in Poestenkill east of Rt.351 to the Sand Lake border, by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022 when it took that action, without ever letting us know the action had been taken, which is the essence, the very heart and soul of "SLIMEBALL" politics, as only Poestenkill can play that game.
As to the timeline from official town records, in the minutes for the February 18, 2021 Poestenkill town board meeting, we have as follows from the "Supervisor's Report":
Supervisor Hammond discussed the Algonquin Middle School's water situation. He said that the school was in compliance in the past, but now that the PFOA/PFOS MCL (Maximum Contamination Levels) were lowered to 10 ppt, they were no longer in compliance. He stated that the school would like to connect to the Poestenkill Municipal Water System. He also stated that there is some interest in providing water to Sand Lake. These options will be discussed when the Town is provided with further information. R. Brunet, Water Manager has been staying informed to the school testing situation and will be pleased to work on this with their representatives.
From there we go to the March 18, 2021 minutes of the Poestenkill town board meeting where under "Supervisor's Report," we have as follows:
Supervisor Hammond said that tonight's meeting was extensive, however, he wanted to briefly discuss the Algonquin Middle School's water situation which he and Robert Brunet, Water Manger have been involved in. Supervisor Hammond said that the Algonquin School is very interested in connecting to the Poestenkill Municipal Water System and asked Mr. Brunet to briefly address the subject. He assured the residents that both he and Supervisor Hammond are staying very close to the subject and would keep the residents notified. Mr. Brunet briefly described the water hookup plan if the school wants to move ahead.
So without really saying anything to the residents of the town of Poestenkill about what they were doing or what was going on, while they were committing the town's taxpayers to an action where town taxpayers are financially responsible, we had Hammond and Brunet conducting some kind of back room or boiler room negotiations with the Algonquin School to provide the school with water at town taxpayer expense, which negotiations neither Hammond nor Brunet had any authority, jurisdiction or discretion to enter into, but given this is lawless Poestenkill, that reality that they had no lawful authority to act never fazed either of them, which takes us to the minutes of the August 11, 2022, where we had the roll call, as follows: Councilwoman Butler Present; Councilman Hass Absent; Councilman Van Slyke Present; Councilman Wohlleber Absent; and Supervisor Hammond Present.
Going to the public comment period, we then had the following news coming in at us from either left field or outer space, because prior to this, the name Laberge does not appear anywhere in the town records as to exactly how it was that that crowd was seeking funding for Poestenkill:
Ron Laberge, P.E., Executive VP- Laberge Group stated that they were working on obtaining NYS funding. He supplied the resolution establishing the Town of Poestenkill as the “Lead Agency” for this project.
So, like puppets on a string, or trained poodles turning tricks for biscuits, the obedient and subservient Poestenkill town board simply rubberstamped the resolution this Laberge handed them to rubber stamp, which takes us to the minutes of the September 9, 2022 Poestenkill town board meeting, where under the heading "action items," we have as follows:
RESOLUTION #19-2022 – RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERVISOR TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE NYS ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES CORPORATIN (NYWIIA) GRANT PROGRAM, INCLUDING A GENERAL PROJECT BUDGET AND PLAN OF FINANCE.
Resolved, the Town Board acknowledges that the current budget and estimated cost to complete this selected project involving the Establishment of a Water District No. 2 is five million five hundred and fifty thousand ($5,550,000); and the Town Board acknowledges that in order to secure WIIA funds, Water District formation is required.
MOTION BY: Councilman Wohlleber
SECONDED BY: Councilwoman Butler
VOTED ON AS FOLLOWS:
Councilwoman Butler YES
Councilman Hass YES
Councilman Wohlleber YES
Councilman Van Slyke ABSENT
Supervisor Hammond YES
And without us knowing or suspecting a thing, an essential element of a good con-job, there the deal was done.
Right there is where, without us knowing what was even happening, since none of this was anywhere made public, Keith Hammond, David Hass, Eric Wohlleber and June Butler voted to adopt the map in the Laberge Report as appendix "A" which map shows the true boundaries of water district no. 2, not the segment we were shown on April 3, 2024 at the fire house as the map of the district when it was only a map of a phase of construction within the bigger district, which is a taxing district, whether or not you ever actually get water, which then takes us to this where we get sold down the river by the Poestenkill town board, again without even having a clue as to what was going on since this map and the report were not public documents:
RESOLUTION #20-2022 – RESOLUTION TO DECLARE INTENT FOR LEAD AGENCY & NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.
Resolved, that the Town Board determines the Action to result in a Negative Declaration and adopts a Notice of Determination of Non-Significance.
MOVED BY: Councilman Hass
SECONDED BY: Councilwoman Butler
VOTED ON AS FOLLOWS:
Councilwoman Butler YES
Councilman Hass YES
Councilman Wohlleber YES
Councilman Van Slyke ABSENT
Supervisor Hammond YES
Which brings us to the "Town Attorney’s Report" where credit for this slick con job pulled on us on September 9, 2022 by the Poestenkill town board when they accepted that map and plan without any of us even knowing it was happening has to go to a man well known in Rensselaer County political circles as "THE MAESTRO" for his uncanny ability to get it done when it needed to be done without those to whom it was being done knowing they had just been screwed royally, to wit:
A. Gilchrist reported on some of the items he worked on this month which included budget preparation, working with Laberge Engineering on tonight’s resolutions for the Proposed Water District #2 and other routine matters.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 16th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - HOW WE HAVE BEEN SNOOKERED BUT GOOD"
To be "snookered," as we all were in August of 2022 when the Poestenkill town board took an action to accept as the official water district no. 2 boundary map a map as Appendix "A" in a "Report" by Laberge Engineering showing water district no. 2 extending from Snyders Corners Road on both sides of Rt. 66 easterly past Rt. 351 on both sides of 66 to the Sand Lake line and up to the end of Vosburgh Road where there will be a standpipe, means "to be deceived, cheated, or duped," and that is exactly what has been done to us, "us" being everyone residing in Poestenkill east of Rt.351 to the Sand Lake border, by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022 when it took that action, without ever letting us know the action had been taken, which is the essence, the very heart and soul of "SLIMEBALL" politics, as only Poestenkill can play that game.
As to the timeline from official town records, in the minutes for the February 18, 2021 Poestenkill town board meeting, we have as follows from the "Supervisor's Report":
Supervisor Hammond discussed the Algonquin Middle School's water situation. He said that the school was in compliance in the past, but now that the PFOA/PFOS MCL (Maximum Contamination Levels) were lowered to 10 ppt, they were no longer in compliance. He stated that the school would like to connect to the Poestenkill Municipal Water System. He also stated that there is some interest in providing water to Sand Lake. These options will be discussed when the Town is provided with further information. R. Brunet, Water Manager has been staying informed to the school testing situation and will be pleased to work on this with their representatives.
From there we go to the March 18, 2021 minutes of the Poestenkill town board meeting where under "Supervisor's Report," we have as follows:
Supervisor Hammond said that tonight's meeting was extensive, however, he wanted to briefly discuss the Algonquin Middle School's water situation which he and Robert Brunet, Water Manger have been involved in. Supervisor Hammond said that the Algonquin School is very interested in connecting to the Poestenkill Municipal Water System and asked Mr. Brunet to briefly address the subject. He assured the residents that both he and Supervisor Hammond are staying very close to the subject and would keep the residents notified. Mr. Brunet briefly described the water hookup plan if the school wants to move ahead.
So without really saying anything to the residents of the town of Poestenkill about what they were doing or what was going on, while they were committing the town's taxpayers to an action where town taxpayers are financially responsible, we had Hammond and Brunet conducting some kind of back room or boiler room negotiations with the Algonquin School to provide the school with water at town taxpayer expense, which negotiations neither Hammond nor Brunet had any authority, jurisdiction or discretion to enter into, but given this is lawless Poestenkill, that reality that they had no lawful authority to act never fazed either of them, which takes us to the minutes of the August 11, 2022, where we had the roll call, as follows: Councilwoman Butler Present; Councilman Hass Absent; Councilman Van Slyke Present; Councilman Wohlleber Absent; and Supervisor Hammond Present.
Going to the public comment period, we then had the following news coming in at us from either left field or outer space, because prior to this, the name Laberge does not appear anywhere in the town records as to exactly how it was that that crowd was seeking funding for Poestenkill:
Ron Laberge, P.E., Executive VP- Laberge Group stated that they were working on obtaining NYS funding. He supplied the resolution establishing the Town of Poestenkill as the “Lead Agency” for this project.
So, like puppets on a string, or trained poodles turning tricks for biscuits, the obedient and subservient Poestenkill town board simply rubberstamped the resolution this Laberge handed them to rubber stamp, which takes us to the minutes of the September 9, 2022 Poestenkill town board meeting, where under the heading "action items," we have as follows:
RESOLUTION #19-2022 – RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERVISOR TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE NYS ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES CORPORATIN (NYWIIA) GRANT PROGRAM, INCLUDING A GENERAL PROJECT BUDGET AND PLAN OF FINANCE.
Resolved, the Town Board acknowledges that the current budget and estimated cost to complete this selected project involving the Establishment of a Water District No. 2 is five million five hundred and fifty thousand ($5,550,000); and the Town Board acknowledges that in order to secure WIIA funds, Water District formation is required.
MOTION BY: Councilman Wohlleber
SECONDED BY: Councilwoman Butler
VOTED ON AS FOLLOWS:
Councilwoman Butler YES
Councilman Hass YES
Councilman Wohlleber YES
Councilman Van Slyke ABSENT
Supervisor Hammond YES
And without us knowing or suspecting a thing, an essential element of a good con-job, there the deal was done.
Right there is where, without us knowing what was even happening, since none of this was anywhere made public, Keith Hammond, David Hass, Eric Wohlleber and June Butler voted to adopt the map in the Laberge Report as appendix "A" which map shows the true boundaries of water district no. 2, not the segment we were shown on April 3, 2024 at the fire house as the map of the district when it was only a map of a phase of construction within the bigger district, which is a taxing district, whether or not you ever actually get water, which then takes us to this where we get sold down the river by the Poestenkill town board, again without even having a clue as to what was going on since this map and the report were not public documents:
RESOLUTION #20-2022 – RESOLUTION TO DECLARE INTENT FOR LEAD AGENCY & NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.
Resolved, that the Town Board determines the Action to result in a Negative Declaration and adopts a Notice of Determination of Non-Significance.
MOVED BY: Councilman Hass
SECONDED BY: Councilwoman Butler
VOTED ON AS FOLLOWS:
Councilwoman Butler YES
Councilman Hass YES
Councilman Wohlleber YES
Councilman Van Slyke ABSENT
Supervisor Hammond YES
Which brings us to the "Town Attorney’s Report" where credit for this slick con job pulled on us on September 9, 2022 by the Poestenkill town board when they accepted that map and plan without any of us even knowing it was happening has to go to a man well known in Rensselaer County political circles as "THE MAESTRO" for his uncanny ability to get it done when it needed to be done without those to whom it was being done knowing they had just been screwed royally, to wit:
A. Gilchrist reported on some of the items he worked on this month which included budget preparation, working with Laberge Engineering on tonight’s resolutions for the Proposed Water District #2 and other routine matters.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 17th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - STEALING FROM THE TAXPAYERS POESTENKILL STYLE"
Yesterday, I was asked by a fellow town resident to justify a statement I made about the town procuring these county, state and federal dollars for water district no. 2, all taxpayer dollars, which means the pockets getting looted here include ours, based on false pretenses (a deliberate misrepresentation of facts, as to obtain title to money or property), which is a form of stealing, although stealing from the taxpayers in Rensselaer County and New York state is not considered a crime, but a benefit of holding public office.
"What false pretenses," he wanted to know, "where are the false pretenses, because I am unaware of them?"
To which I answered that he was unaware of them precisely because he was supposed to be, because if he knew his pocket was being picked, and his bank account was being looted, then he would have stood up at a town meeting and protested, and that had to be prevented at all costs for this taxpayer scam to succeed, which it has to the tune of MILLION$ in the form of a cash transfer from our pockets into those of the looters.
As to the false pretenses, they are right there staring us all in the face, in the beginning of the Laberge report accepted by the town board in August of 2022:
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Map, Plan and Report was commissioned by the Town of Poestenkill Town Board to evaluate the feasibility of, and to assist with, the creation of a water district in the Town.
The need for expansion of the water system stems from the joint investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, and Rensselaer County Department of Health.
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
end quotes
The false pretenses are right there for all to see right there in that last sentence, where it says there is a priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School, which is an untrue statement.
There NEVER was a need for Poestenkill at taxpayer expense to provide water to the school.
That was a ruse that Poestenkill and Laberge used to obtain county, state and federal funds.
The Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill is already served by Public Water Supply NY4117257, a Non-transient non-community water system serving 1000 persons at the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill, which water supply is owned by the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, of whom we are all one, and that is a separate taxing district the town neither owns nor controls, so that was a patently false statement the town submitted to get those funds, which is a false pretense.
That Poestenkill would have known in August of 2022 that it was a false statement that the town needed to run water to the school, the necessary excuse to get this project going, is made clear by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2021
PROTECTING POESTENKILL’S DRINKING WATER AND INVESTIGATING PFAS CONTAMINATION
Two Public Availability Sessions Scheduled for Dec. 8, 2021
The school is currently installing a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to filter the PFOA and other PFAS and effectively treat the contaminants to provide clean water to the school community.
end quotes
So if the town knew in November of 2021 (actually earlier) that the school was getting that filter, it would have known it was telling a falsehood in September of 2022 when it applied for state funds based on a premise that it had to supply the school with water.
And it is news to ALL of us because it was all very well buried so we wouldn't know, given we had no access to that Laberge Report in August and September of 2022 when the town made those funding requests.
As to the funding requests, recall from the Laberge Report at p.5 in the section titled PROJECT BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, under i) NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), as follows:
The Town, as required to submit for certain grant funds, has completed the required SEQRA review and has made a Determination of Significance under SEQRA (6 NYCRR Part 617). The Town Board issued a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, a copy of which is included in Appendix F.
That the town would have known on September 8th, 2022 that it was a false statement about the need to provide water to the school is further reinforced by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2022
POESTENKILL PFAS INVESTIGATION
Updates: New Investigation Summary Reports
The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health (DOH), and the Rensselaer County Department of Health (RCDOH), are working together to protect the public health and environment of the Poestenkill community.
The following is an update from the November 2021 community update.
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
System startup and flushing of the school’s distribution system continued throughout January and into February 2022.
The school district is currently working with the RCDOH to test the water and make the system operational.
end quotes
If in fact as the DEC said in February of 2022 that the granular activated carbon (GAC) system installed by the taxpayers at the school would provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community, then clearly, in August of 2022, there was no need for the town to do so, but they needed that excuse to get those funds - big emergency, school kids, poisoned water, send money!
That money doesn't come from heaven, it comes from our pockets. so should the town be telling lies to take it from our pockets?
Call me very old-fashioned, but I don't think so.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 17th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - STEALING FROM THE TAXPAYERS POESTENKILL STYLE"
Yesterday, I was asked by a fellow town resident to justify a statement I made about the town procuring these county, state and federal dollars for water district no. 2, all taxpayer dollars, which means the pockets getting looted here include ours, based on false pretenses (a deliberate misrepresentation of facts, as to obtain title to money or property), which is a form of stealing, although stealing from the taxpayers in Rensselaer County and New York state is not considered a crime, but a benefit of holding public office.
"What false pretenses," he wanted to know, "where are the false pretenses, because I am unaware of them?"
To which I answered that he was unaware of them precisely because he was supposed to be, because if he knew his pocket was being picked, and his bank account was being looted, then he would have stood up at a town meeting and protested, and that had to be prevented at all costs for this taxpayer scam to succeed, which it has to the tune of MILLION$ in the form of a cash transfer from our pockets into those of the looters.
As to the false pretenses, they are right there staring us all in the face, in the beginning of the Laberge report accepted by the town board in August of 2022:
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Map, Plan and Report was commissioned by the Town of Poestenkill Town Board to evaluate the feasibility of, and to assist with, the creation of a water district in the Town.
The need for expansion of the water system stems from the joint investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, and Rensselaer County Department of Health.
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
end quotes
The false pretenses are right there for all to see right there in that last sentence, where it says there is a priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School, which is an untrue statement.
There NEVER was a need for Poestenkill at taxpayer expense to provide water to the school.
That was a ruse that Poestenkill and Laberge used to obtain county, state and federal funds.
The Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill is already served by Public Water Supply NY4117257, a Non-transient non-community water system serving 1000 persons at the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill, which water supply is owned by the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, of whom we are all one, and that is a separate taxing district the town neither owns nor controls, so that was a patently false statement the town submitted to get those funds, which is a false pretense.
That Poestenkill would have known in August of 2022 that it was a false statement that the town needed to run water to the school, the necessary excuse to get this project going, is made clear by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2021
PROTECTING POESTENKILL’S DRINKING WATER AND INVESTIGATING PFAS CONTAMINATION
Two Public Availability Sessions Scheduled for Dec. 8, 2021
The school is currently installing a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to filter the PFOA and other PFAS and effectively treat the contaminants to provide clean water to the school community.
end quotes
So if the town knew in November of 2021 (actually earlier) that the school was getting that filter, it would have known it was telling a falsehood in September of 2022 when it applied for state funds based on a premise that it had to supply the school with water.
And it is news to ALL of us because it was all very well buried so we wouldn't know, given we had no access to that Laberge Report in August and September of 2022 when the town made those funding requests.
As to the funding requests, recall from the Laberge Report at p.5 in the section titled PROJECT BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, under i) NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), as follows:
The Town, as required to submit for certain grant funds, has completed the required SEQRA review and has made a Determination of Significance under SEQRA (6 NYCRR Part 617). The Town Board issued a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, a copy of which is included in Appendix F.
That the town would have known on September 8th, 2022 that it was a false statement about the need to provide water to the school is further reinforced by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2022
POESTENKILL PFAS INVESTIGATION
Updates: New Investigation Summary Reports
The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health (DOH), and the Rensselaer County Department of Health (RCDOH), are working together to protect the public health and environment of the Poestenkill community.
The following is an update from the November 2021 community update.
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
System startup and flushing of the school’s distribution system continued throughout January and into February 2022.
The school district is currently working with the RCDOH to test the water and make the system operational.
end quotes
If in fact as the DEC said in February of 2022 that the granular activated carbon (GAC) system installed by the taxpayers at the school would provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community, then clearly, in August of 2022, there was no need for the town to do so, but they needed that excuse to get those funds - big emergency, school kids, poisoned water, send money!
That money doesn't come from heaven, it comes from our pockets. so should the town be telling lies to take it from our pockets?
Call me very old-fashioned, but I don't think so.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 18th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - AND NOW FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING"
Now, regardless of anything I have said in these last few editions of the Clarion about false statements and misinformation, the reality is that just seven short days from now, and this by decree of the Poestenkill town board and its supervisor on April 11, 2024, on April 25th, 2024, we are all to assemble at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm for what the public notice calls a "CONTINUATION" of a public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2, without telling us exactly what that word "continuation" actually means, at which time, this according to the Laberge vice president who was clearly the man in charge of the proceedings on April 3, 2024 at the Poestenkill fire house, where supervisor Russell was given his marching orders to "get this done," we will be "given our three minutes," and the next day, the town will file papers already filled out and waiting for them to sign, stating that the public hearing notice was published and posted as required by law, and was otherwise sufficient, and upon the evidence given at the hearing on April 25th, 2024, all the property and property owners within the proposed district or extension are benefited thereby, and that all the property and property owners benefited are included within the limits of the proposed district or extension, and the establishment water district no. 2 and the extension of water district no. 1 is in the public interest, and the deal for Laberge will be done, and for the rest of our lives, we will be stuck with what they have decreed should be our "future," which takes us first of all to page 19 of the Laberge Report already accepted by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022, to see what that slip-shod, far from safe and reliable "future" actually looks like in real life, to wit:
7) Water Supply Limitations
The water supply for the district (district no. 2) is Water District No. 1 and Water District No. 1’s water supply is limited by its contractual relationship with the Town of Brunswick.
As noted previously, the maximum pumping rate allowed during the day is 100 gpm and 150 gpm in the evening.
The maximum daily supply is 165,000 gpd.
Water District No. 1 currently (2022) is using approximately 97,000 gpd on average, leaving an average of 67,000 gpd available for District No. 2.
This is insufficient for the total water system demand from Phase 1 and 2, which requires roughly 67,000 gpd.
end quotes
So as existing water district no. 1 continues to add hook-ups, as it is doing, the actual amount of water available to water district no. 2 goes down, and that is what the short-sighted, shallow-thinking, irresponsible and reckless Poestenkill town board calls a "safe and reliable" water system for not only the people of Poestenkill, but for the Algonquin Middle School and the taxpayers of the Averill Park school district who own the Algonquin School, as well.
But the story of the miserable future waiting for us when this water district no. 2 is put in place next week, the day after the April 25th hearing continuation of the May 11, 2023 public hearing, doesn't end there as we clearly see from the following at page 20 of the Laberge Report already accepted by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022, to wit:
In addition to the above (the flow limitations through Brunswick and Poestenkill water district no. 1), consideration must be given to either pumping or storage improvements in the Brunswick system.
As the system is currently arranged, all water users in the Brunswick Pressure Zone and in the Town of Poestenkill are dependent upon a single pumping station.
A catastrophic failure of the station will leave the areas without a water supply for an indeterminate period of time.
end quotes
So how about that, people - no water for an indeterminate period of time, including no water to the Algonquin Middle School and for fire protection, and that is what Poestenkill calls safe and reliable and they have known about that since August of 2022, but nary a word about that have we heard from them or Laberge since, because it has been hushed up, and why has it been hushed up?
To get that answer, let's go back to page 20 of the 2022 Laberge Report to see why, to wit:
To minimize the risk and to improve overall system hydraulics and increase supply capacity to the Town of Poestenkill a secondary pump station, located on Pinewoods Avenue will provide the pumping redundancy for the entire Brunswick and Poestenkill water systems, increase overall pumping capacity, increase fire flow on the southerly side of the system.
The costs associated with these improvements will have to be negotiated between the Towns.
The installation of a second pump station is a significant improvement to the Brunswick water systems and not just required to provide water to Poestenkill.
The concept opinion of cost associated with the Brunswick improvements identified herein is approximately $940,000 determined as follows:
• Remove regulator at Brunswick Drive $ 75,000
• Remove regulator on Pinewoods Ave $ 75,000
• Improve crossover connection $150,000
• Pump Station $450,000
Sub-total $750,000
• Engineering, Legal, Land, etc. (25%) $188,000
Total $938,000
end quotes
So how about that for reality, people.
That is the future the Poestenkill town board has already bequeathed us by accepting that Laberge Report in August of 2022 without question, and in eight more days, that future will be made real, and not only Poestenkill, but Brunswick, as well, will have a suction pipeline right into YOUR bank account to drain it down to benefit them and not us, who are merely there to pay the freight.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 18th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - AND NOW FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING"
Now, regardless of anything I have said in these last few editions of the Clarion about false statements and misinformation, the reality is that just seven short days from now, and this by decree of the Poestenkill town board and its supervisor on April 11, 2024, on April 25th, 2024, we are all to assemble at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm for what the public notice calls a "CONTINUATION" of a public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2, without telling us exactly what that word "continuation" actually means, at which time, this according to the Laberge vice president who was clearly the man in charge of the proceedings on April 3, 2024 at the Poestenkill fire house, where supervisor Russell was given his marching orders to "get this done," we will be "given our three minutes," and the next day, the town will file papers already filled out and waiting for them to sign, stating that the public hearing notice was published and posted as required by law, and was otherwise sufficient, and upon the evidence given at the hearing on April 25th, 2024, all the property and property owners within the proposed district or extension are benefited thereby, and that all the property and property owners benefited are included within the limits of the proposed district or extension, and the establishment water district no. 2 and the extension of water district no. 1 is in the public interest, and the deal for Laberge will be done, and for the rest of our lives, we will be stuck with what they have decreed should be our "future," which takes us first of all to page 19 of the Laberge Report already accepted by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022, to see what that slip-shod, far from safe and reliable "future" actually looks like in real life, to wit:
7) Water Supply Limitations
The water supply for the district (district no. 2) is Water District No. 1 and Water District No. 1’s water supply is limited by its contractual relationship with the Town of Brunswick.
As noted previously, the maximum pumping rate allowed during the day is 100 gpm and 150 gpm in the evening.
The maximum daily supply is 165,000 gpd.
Water District No. 1 currently (2022) is using approximately 97,000 gpd on average, leaving an average of 67,000 gpd available for District No. 2.
This is insufficient for the total water system demand from Phase 1 and 2, which requires roughly 67,000 gpd.
end quotes
So as existing water district no. 1 continues to add hook-ups, as it is doing, the actual amount of water available to water district no. 2 goes down, and that is what the short-sighted, shallow-thinking, irresponsible and reckless Poestenkill town board calls a "safe and reliable" water system for not only the people of Poestenkill, but for the Algonquin Middle School and the taxpayers of the Averill Park school district who own the Algonquin School, as well.
But the story of the miserable future waiting for us when this water district no. 2 is put in place next week, the day after the April 25th hearing continuation of the May 11, 2023 public hearing, doesn't end there as we clearly see from the following at page 20 of the Laberge Report already accepted by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022, to wit:
In addition to the above (the flow limitations through Brunswick and Poestenkill water district no. 1), consideration must be given to either pumping or storage improvements in the Brunswick system.
As the system is currently arranged, all water users in the Brunswick Pressure Zone and in the Town of Poestenkill are dependent upon a single pumping station.
A catastrophic failure of the station will leave the areas without a water supply for an indeterminate period of time.
end quotes
So how about that, people - no water for an indeterminate period of time, including no water to the Algonquin Middle School and for fire protection, and that is what Poestenkill calls safe and reliable and they have known about that since August of 2022, but nary a word about that have we heard from them or Laberge since, because it has been hushed up, and why has it been hushed up?
To get that answer, let's go back to page 20 of the 2022 Laberge Report to see why, to wit:
To minimize the risk and to improve overall system hydraulics and increase supply capacity to the Town of Poestenkill a secondary pump station, located on Pinewoods Avenue will provide the pumping redundancy for the entire Brunswick and Poestenkill water systems, increase overall pumping capacity, increase fire flow on the southerly side of the system.
The costs associated with these improvements will have to be negotiated between the Towns.
The installation of a second pump station is a significant improvement to the Brunswick water systems and not just required to provide water to Poestenkill.
The concept opinion of cost associated with the Brunswick improvements identified herein is approximately $940,000 determined as follows:
• Remove regulator at Brunswick Drive $ 75,000
• Remove regulator on Pinewoods Ave $ 75,000
• Improve crossover connection $150,000
• Pump Station $450,000
Sub-total $750,000
• Engineering, Legal, Land, etc. (25%) $188,000
Total $938,000
end quotes
So how about that for reality, people.
That is the future the Poestenkill town board has already bequeathed us by accepting that Laberge Report in August of 2022 without question, and in eight more days, that future will be made real, and not only Poestenkill, but Brunswick, as well, will have a suction pipeline right into YOUR bank account to drain it down to benefit them and not us, who are merely there to pay the freight.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 19th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - THE CONTINUANCE OF THE MAY 11, 2023 WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 PUBLIC HEARING"
As to what the Poestenkill town board actually means and is telling us when they say in the public notice of April 11, 2024 that the "town board will continue a public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2" at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024, just SIX (6) days away now, what they actually mean is that we are all going back in time to the water district no. 2 public hearing opened at the May 11, 2023 Poestenkill town board meeting, the official record of which is on a Youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hNSIBx_mvMI , and like a criminal trial that ended the night before and continues uninterrupted the next day with the same transcript record intact, this continuation will pick up at about 40:26 of that video, with everything stated on that video between the time the hearing opened around 3:06 and its close remaining intact, including every word uttered by any and all town board members and Andy Gilchrist and Ronald Laberge.
And so everyone affected is on the same page, because the town public notice intentionally fails to mention any of this based on the ages-old political premise that "the more ignorant they are kept, the easier they are to fleece," that public hearing, which will continue on April 25, 2024, is supposedly in accordance with provisions of New York State Town Law § 209-E, which law states in clear, unambiguous and unequivocal statutory language as follows, to wit:
Establishment or Extension of Districts
1. After the hearing held upon notice as hereinbefore provided and upon the evidence given thereat, the town board shall determine by resolution:
(a) whether the notice of hearing was published and posted as required by law, and is otherwise sufficient;
(b) whether all the property and property owners within the proposed district or extension are benefited thereby;
(c) whether all the property and property owners benefited are included within the limits of the proposed district or extension;
(d) whether the establishment or extension of such district is in the public interest.
end quotes
Now, in actuality, the Poestenkill town board has already made those findings in (b), (c) and (d) at the September 9, 2022 Poestenkill town board meeting in approving RESOLUTION #19-2022 – RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERVISOR TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE NYS ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES CORPORATIN (NYWIIA) GRANT PROGRAM, INCLUDING A GENERAL PROJECT BUDGET AND PLAN OF FINANCE, voted on by
Councilwoman Butler, Councilman Hass, Councilman Wohlleber, and Supervisor Hammond, so that eight months later at the May 11, 2023 water district no. 2 public hearing, they were merely playing games with us, so what they did to "seal their deal" which had already gone down eight months earlier, to fulfill their duty to hold a hearing upon notice and take evidence thereat, they simply had PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER Ronald Laberge, who on August 29, 2022 had already signed and stamped an "Engineering Report Certification" on behalf of the Poestenkill town board stating therein that in his PROFESSIONAL OPINION, he had reviewed all alternatives and as a PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER had selected the best one, appear as their witness to give his testimony and evidence on the record as to the fact that in his PROFESSIONAL OPINION, all the property and property owners within the proposed district or extension are benefited thereby, and all the property and property owners benefited are included within the limits of the proposed district or extension, and the establishment or extension of such district is in the public interest, which of course, and by intent, shifted the burden of proving otherwise over onto the people of Poestenkill, a burden they could not and cannot meet for the simple fact that Laberge is a PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER and they are not.
And there is where we are right now, but more is yet to come, so stay tuned for a future edition of the Clarion for more.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 19th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - THE CONTINUANCE OF THE MAY 11, 2023 WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 PUBLIC HEARING"
As to what the Poestenkill town board actually means and is telling us when they say in the public notice of April 11, 2024 that the "town board will continue a public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2" at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024, just SIX (6) days away now, what they actually mean is that we are all going back in time to the water district no. 2 public hearing opened at the May 11, 2023 Poestenkill town board meeting, the official record of which is on a Youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hNSIBx_mvMI , and like a criminal trial that ended the night before and continues uninterrupted the next day with the same transcript record intact, this continuation will pick up at about 40:26 of that video, with everything stated on that video between the time the hearing opened around 3:06 and its close remaining intact, including every word uttered by any and all town board members and Andy Gilchrist and Ronald Laberge.
And so everyone affected is on the same page, because the town public notice intentionally fails to mention any of this based on the ages-old political premise that "the more ignorant they are kept, the easier they are to fleece," that public hearing, which will continue on April 25, 2024, is supposedly in accordance with provisions of New York State Town Law § 209-E, which law states in clear, unambiguous and unequivocal statutory language as follows, to wit:
Establishment or Extension of Districts
1. After the hearing held upon notice as hereinbefore provided and upon the evidence given thereat, the town board shall determine by resolution:
(a) whether the notice of hearing was published and posted as required by law, and is otherwise sufficient;
(b) whether all the property and property owners within the proposed district or extension are benefited thereby;
(c) whether all the property and property owners benefited are included within the limits of the proposed district or extension;
(d) whether the establishment or extension of such district is in the public interest.
end quotes
Now, in actuality, the Poestenkill town board has already made those findings in (b), (c) and (d) at the September 9, 2022 Poestenkill town board meeting in approving RESOLUTION #19-2022 – RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERVISOR TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE NYS ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES CORPORATIN (NYWIIA) GRANT PROGRAM, INCLUDING A GENERAL PROJECT BUDGET AND PLAN OF FINANCE, voted on by
Councilwoman Butler, Councilman Hass, Councilman Wohlleber, and Supervisor Hammond, so that eight months later at the May 11, 2023 water district no. 2 public hearing, they were merely playing games with us, so what they did to "seal their deal" which had already gone down eight months earlier, to fulfill their duty to hold a hearing upon notice and take evidence thereat, they simply had PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER Ronald Laberge, who on August 29, 2022 had already signed and stamped an "Engineering Report Certification" on behalf of the Poestenkill town board stating therein that in his PROFESSIONAL OPINION, he had reviewed all alternatives and as a PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER had selected the best one, appear as their witness to give his testimony and evidence on the record as to the fact that in his PROFESSIONAL OPINION, all the property and property owners within the proposed district or extension are benefited thereby, and all the property and property owners benefited are included within the limits of the proposed district or extension, and the establishment or extension of such district is in the public interest, which of course, and by intent, shifted the burden of proving otherwise over onto the people of Poestenkill, a burden they could not and cannot meet for the simple fact that Laberge is a PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER and they are not.
And there is where we are right now, but more is yet to come, so stay tuned for a future edition of the Clarion for more.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 19th 2024 Supplemental Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - THE MAP IS THE PLAN AND DISTRICT"
So let us not kid ourselves that this supposed public hearing on the "proposed" Water District No. 2 at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024, just SIX (6) days away now, is going to be anything other than a farce or sham, because there is NO "proposed" water district no. 2; to the contrary, there is a water district no. 2 IN FACT since September of 2022 when the town took the unilateral action of applying for state and federal funding of construction activities within a phase of the district, which district and construction plan are clearly shown in detail on the map, which map is buried thirty pages into the August 2022 Laberge Enginering Report that was accepted into the record by the town board without comment or public discussion in August of 2022, which takes us back to how the April 11, 2024 public hearing notice actually should be read:
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE of the following:
A Map, Plan and Report, dated August 2022 and revised April 2023, has been accepted by the Poestenkill Town Board and is on file in the Poestenkill Town Clerk’s Office and available for public inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours.
There before your eyes, people, is what is called notice and an opportunity to be heard ON that map, that plan and that report, all of which were made available and accessible to each and every town resident back in May of 2023, and everybody in Poestenkill who stayed silent on the subject after being given notice is now out of court, because in the eyes of the law, silence gave consent, even if it was silence based on ignorance.
And this is what we are all going to be told in SIX days at the so-called public hearing continuation on the "proposed" Water District No. 2 at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024, that pursuant to established SEQRA case law, when the Poestenkill town board on behalf of the people of the town declared this water district as depicted in that official map, which is clearly labeled "water district no. 2 general plan," NOT the verbiage of the report, to be an unlisted action and gave it a neg. dec. in September of 2022 in order to get state funding, which is an "action" as defined by SEQRA, the town board accepted into the record, a record we cannot now challenge, having had that right stripped from us by the secrecy of this process, that map and every symbol on it, as "THE PROJECT TO BE FUNDED," which symbols included every inch of pipe all the way to the end of Vosburgh Rd., and the Sand Lake line, every check valve or pressure-reducing valve, and the standpipe up at the end of Vosburgh Rd., as is made clear in the Laberge Report at p.17, to wit:
c. Tank Location
The potential storage tank location is at the required elevation of 820 feet in Phase 2 which is shown on Figure 1 – General Plan in Appendix A.
The location is in a wooded, non-developed areas and will require some tree removal necessary for installation of the tank.
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Se we were clearly being sold a bill of goods by the town and Laberge at the fire house on April 3, 2024, just as we were sold the same bill of goods at the so-called May 11, 2023 public hearing, with that handout called "water district #2 information sheet" showing only Construction Phase 1, while at the same time calling it a map of district #2 when in reality, according to the official map the town and Laberge have NEVER shown us, that map depicted in the town propaganda as "district #2" is merely a construction phase of the larger project fully depicted on that map in evidence.
So why then do we keep getting lied to, over and over and over and over about this project, that water district #2 information sheet handed out by the town on April 3, 2024 at the Poestenkill fire house being case in point?
Because we like to be?
Because being lied to makes us feel good about ourselves and all warm and squishy inside?
Or is it because we expect being lied to by public officials as our due?
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April 19th 2024 Supplemental Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - THE MAP IS THE PLAN AND DISTRICT"
So let us not kid ourselves that this supposed public hearing on the "proposed" Water District No. 2 at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024, just SIX (6) days away now, is going to be anything other than a farce or sham, because there is NO "proposed" water district no. 2; to the contrary, there is a water district no. 2 IN FACT since September of 2022 when the town took the unilateral action of applying for state and federal funding of construction activities within a phase of the district, which district and construction plan are clearly shown in detail on the map, which map is buried thirty pages into the August 2022 Laberge Enginering Report that was accepted into the record by the town board without comment or public discussion in August of 2022, which takes us back to how the April 11, 2024 public hearing notice actually should be read:
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE of the following:
A Map, Plan and Report, dated August 2022 and revised April 2023, has been accepted by the Poestenkill Town Board and is on file in the Poestenkill Town Clerk’s Office and available for public inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours.
There before your eyes, people, is what is called notice and an opportunity to be heard ON that map, that plan and that report, all of which were made available and accessible to each and every town resident back in May of 2023, and everybody in Poestenkill who stayed silent on the subject after being given notice is now out of court, because in the eyes of the law, silence gave consent, even if it was silence based on ignorance.
And this is what we are all going to be told in SIX days at the so-called public hearing continuation on the "proposed" Water District No. 2 at the Poestenkill fire house at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024, that pursuant to established SEQRA case law, when the Poestenkill town board on behalf of the people of the town declared this water district as depicted in that official map, which is clearly labeled "water district no. 2 general plan," NOT the verbiage of the report, to be an unlisted action and gave it a neg. dec. in September of 2022 in order to get state funding, which is an "action" as defined by SEQRA, the town board accepted into the record, a record we cannot now challenge, having had that right stripped from us by the secrecy of this process, that map and every symbol on it, as "THE PROJECT TO BE FUNDED," which symbols included every inch of pipe all the way to the end of Vosburgh Rd., and the Sand Lake line, every check valve or pressure-reducing valve, and the standpipe up at the end of Vosburgh Rd., as is made clear in the Laberge Report at p.17, to wit:
c. Tank Location
The potential storage tank location is at the required elevation of 820 feet in Phase 2 which is shown on Figure 1 – General Plan in Appendix A.
The location is in a wooded, non-developed areas and will require some tree removal necessary for installation of the tank.
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Se we were clearly being sold a bill of goods by the town and Laberge at the fire house on April 3, 2024, just as we were sold the same bill of goods at the so-called May 11, 2023 public hearing, with that handout called "water district #2 information sheet" showing only Construction Phase 1, while at the same time calling it a map of district #2 when in reality, according to the official map the town and Laberge have NEVER shown us, that map depicted in the town propaganda as "district #2" is merely a construction phase of the larger project fully depicted on that map in evidence.
So why then do we keep getting lied to, over and over and over and over about this project, that water district #2 information sheet handed out by the town on April 3, 2024 at the Poestenkill fire house being case in point?
Because we like to be?
Because being lied to makes us feel good about ourselves and all warm and squishy inside?
Or is it because we expect being lied to by public officials as our due?
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POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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April 20th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - ON A PROPER EVIDENTIARY HEARING"
Now, let me be patently clear here, people - a "hearing held upon notice whereat evidence is given," as is required by New York State Town Law § 209-E before Poestenkill can lawfully file papers forming the water district, which in this case likely has already been done in order to get funding, since for Poestenkill to get finding, it had to have something already established to fund, IS NOT that farce that we were subjected to on May 11, 2023 by Keith Hammond, the Poestenkill town board, Andy Gilchrist and the Laberge crowd, which crowd is reaping a huge payday from this game being played on us here, as if we were nothing more than a bunch of suckers, yokels and rubes being skinned by a slick-talking grifter adept at "palming the pea" in a shell game or a snake-oil salesman like "Devil Bill" Rockefeller.
Quite to the contrary, a "hearing held upon notice whereat evidence is given," such as was the case in East Nassau when Lane Construction wanted to tear down Snake Mountain, is what is known as a quasi-judicial proceeding similar to a court proceeding where there are clearly written RULES OF PROCEDURE, and an unbiased hearing officer or tribunal to conduct the proceeding according to the rules, and there is a court stenographer there to create a written transcript of the proceedings and the evidence given, so in the event of an appeal, there is a record to appeal from.
As an example, the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, obviously a city that thinks a whole lot more of the due process rights of its citizen body than does Poestenkill, has a clause in the Santa Fe Charter that states as follows on the subject:
Recognizing the importance to the Santa Fe community of procedural due process of law and fairness in proceedings addressing land use and other matters that require City decision-makers to act in a quasi-judicial manner, the City shall adopt procedural rules that ensure that all quasi-judicial proceedings conducted by the Governing Body and City commissions and boards adhere to established principles of procedural due process of law and fundamental fairness and apply these principles in an impartial manner to applicants and members of the community who participate in those proceedings.
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So why don't we have that here in Poestenkill?
Because due process rights do not exist here in Poestenkill?
Or because we simply do not care about due process of law?
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April 20th 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - ON A PROPER EVIDENTIARY HEARING"
Now, let me be patently clear here, people - a "hearing held upon notice whereat evidence is given," as is required by New York State Town Law § 209-E before Poestenkill can lawfully file papers forming the water district, which in this case likely has already been done in order to get funding, since for Poestenkill to get finding, it had to have something already established to fund, IS NOT that farce that we were subjected to on May 11, 2023 by Keith Hammond, the Poestenkill town board, Andy Gilchrist and the Laberge crowd, which crowd is reaping a huge payday from this game being played on us here, as if we were nothing more than a bunch of suckers, yokels and rubes being skinned by a slick-talking grifter adept at "palming the pea" in a shell game or a snake-oil salesman like "Devil Bill" Rockefeller.
Quite to the contrary, a "hearing held upon notice whereat evidence is given," such as was the case in East Nassau when Lane Construction wanted to tear down Snake Mountain, is what is known as a quasi-judicial proceeding similar to a court proceeding where there are clearly written RULES OF PROCEDURE, and an unbiased hearing officer or tribunal to conduct the proceeding according to the rules, and there is a court stenographer there to create a written transcript of the proceedings and the evidence given, so in the event of an appeal, there is a record to appeal from.
As an example, the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, obviously a city that thinks a whole lot more of the due process rights of its citizen body than does Poestenkill, has a clause in the Santa Fe Charter that states as follows on the subject:
Recognizing the importance to the Santa Fe community of procedural due process of law and fairness in proceedings addressing land use and other matters that require City decision-makers to act in a quasi-judicial manner, the City shall adopt procedural rules that ensure that all quasi-judicial proceedings conducted by the Governing Body and City commissions and boards adhere to established principles of procedural due process of law and fundamental fairness and apply these principles in an impartial manner to applicants and members of the community who participate in those proceedings.
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So why don't we have that here in Poestenkill?
Because due process rights do not exist here in Poestenkill?
Or because we simply do not care about due process of law?
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POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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April 22d 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - MAY 11, 2023 HEARING RECORD REVIEWED"
By way of review, four days from now, at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024 at the Poestenkill fire house, as has been previously stated, pursuant to an April 11, 2024 decree of the Poestenkill town board, the Poestenkill town board intends to continue the May 11, 2023 public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hNSIBx_mvMI , which continuation will continue with the record of the May 11, 2023 public hearing intact, as if no time had elapsed since the end of that hearing portion and this one set to commence.
So every single word said on that record remains of the record, and thereby, all those words set the agenda for what is yet to come on Thursday, April 25, 2024.
With respect to the "DISTRICT MAP SCAM" being pulled on us by the Poestenkill town board and Laberge on May 11, 2023, at :22 into a video accompanying a News 10 report of the meeting https://www.news10.com/news/proposed-5- ... estenkill/ we are given a clear shot of the bogus map being presented that evening as WATER DISTRICT NO. 2, when in fact it was nothing more than a map of a funding and construction phase within water district no. 2, which district is shown on a map accepted by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022, and let's be clear here, the WATER DISTRICT, a taxing district, is not the water delivery system within the district.
The district can exist and collect taxes forever without there ever being a single inch of pipe laid, or drop of water actually delivered, and there is not a thing we can do about it, and such will be the case for those town residents residing in PHASE 2 of WATER DISTRICT NO. 2, who will be paying a district tax with nothing to show for it but a pocketful of mumbles such are political promises that there will be water there some fine day in an undefined future.
In the meantime, that money collected goes into a district kitty over which we have absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
As to the record, a summary is as follows:
About 3:15 into the video of the meeting, then Poestenkill supervisor Keith Hammond opened the meeting, and his words should be listened to quite carefully.
At about 4:13 into the video, Hammond kicked the ball over to his engineer, Ronald Laberge to keep the SCAM going as an "authority figure," and about 4:42 into the video, Laberge can be heard calling the segment of water district no. 2 depicted on the bogus map presented that evening the water district itself.
At about 4:48, Laberge is heard to say words to the effect, "tonight is to hear from interested residents in the water district."
At 4:50, Laberge says, "this is a required hearing by law."
And about 5:10 into the video, Laberge puts the bogus map on screen and calls it the water district, when it quite clearly was not the map that he himself had prepared and transmitted to the Poestenkill town board NINE MONTHS EARLIER in August of 2022, which map was then used by the Poestenkill town board in September of 2022 to secure finding for PHASE ONE construction, PHASE ONE being what is shown on the map presented to us as the entire district on May 11, 2023.
At about 18:17, former Poestenkill supervisor Dominic Jacangelo comes to the podium to deliver some important testimony on water district no. 1, which testimony should be memorialized with a written transcript, and listened to well on the video.
Then, at about 26:05, associate public health engineer Paul Plante of Poestenkill, like Laberge a professional engineer with a license from the state of New York to safeguard the lives, health and property of the people of the state of New York, including those in Poestenkill, comes to the podium, and at 27:59, Plante, speaking for the people, whereas Laberge is the town board's engineer, can be heard to clearly say: "they have already made the decision, this is a flim-flam," with respect to the ostensible purpose of the hearing being to actually hear from the residents of Poestenkill, when that was not the case at all.
And in a preview of what to expect on Thursday, where we are all going to "get our three minutes," at 31:06 Plante gets silenced by Hammond.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 22d 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - MAY 11, 2023 HEARING RECORD REVIEWED"
By way of review, four days from now, at 7:00 pm on April 25, 2024 at the Poestenkill fire house, as has been previously stated, pursuant to an April 11, 2024 decree of the Poestenkill town board, the Poestenkill town board intends to continue the May 11, 2023 public hearing on the proposed Water District No. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hNSIBx_mvMI , which continuation will continue with the record of the May 11, 2023 public hearing intact, as if no time had elapsed since the end of that hearing portion and this one set to commence.
So every single word said on that record remains of the record, and thereby, all those words set the agenda for what is yet to come on Thursday, April 25, 2024.
With respect to the "DISTRICT MAP SCAM" being pulled on us by the Poestenkill town board and Laberge on May 11, 2023, at :22 into a video accompanying a News 10 report of the meeting https://www.news10.com/news/proposed-5- ... estenkill/ we are given a clear shot of the bogus map being presented that evening as WATER DISTRICT NO. 2, when in fact it was nothing more than a map of a funding and construction phase within water district no. 2, which district is shown on a map accepted by the Poestenkill town board in August of 2022, and let's be clear here, the WATER DISTRICT, a taxing district, is not the water delivery system within the district.
The district can exist and collect taxes forever without there ever being a single inch of pipe laid, or drop of water actually delivered, and there is not a thing we can do about it, and such will be the case for those town residents residing in PHASE 2 of WATER DISTRICT NO. 2, who will be paying a district tax with nothing to show for it but a pocketful of mumbles such are political promises that there will be water there some fine day in an undefined future.
In the meantime, that money collected goes into a district kitty over which we have absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
As to the record, a summary is as follows:
About 3:15 into the video of the meeting, then Poestenkill supervisor Keith Hammond opened the meeting, and his words should be listened to quite carefully.
At about 4:13 into the video, Hammond kicked the ball over to his engineer, Ronald Laberge to keep the SCAM going as an "authority figure," and about 4:42 into the video, Laberge can be heard calling the segment of water district no. 2 depicted on the bogus map presented that evening the water district itself.
At about 4:48, Laberge is heard to say words to the effect, "tonight is to hear from interested residents in the water district."
At 4:50, Laberge says, "this is a required hearing by law."
And about 5:10 into the video, Laberge puts the bogus map on screen and calls it the water district, when it quite clearly was not the map that he himself had prepared and transmitted to the Poestenkill town board NINE MONTHS EARLIER in August of 2022, which map was then used by the Poestenkill town board in September of 2022 to secure finding for PHASE ONE construction, PHASE ONE being what is shown on the map presented to us as the entire district on May 11, 2023.
At about 18:17, former Poestenkill supervisor Dominic Jacangelo comes to the podium to deliver some important testimony on water district no. 1, which testimony should be memorialized with a written transcript, and listened to well on the video.
Then, at about 26:05, associate public health engineer Paul Plante of Poestenkill, like Laberge a professional engineer with a license from the state of New York to safeguard the lives, health and property of the people of the state of New York, including those in Poestenkill, comes to the podium, and at 27:59, Plante, speaking for the people, whereas Laberge is the town board's engineer, can be heard to clearly say: "they have already made the decision, this is a flim-flam," with respect to the ostensible purpose of the hearing being to actually hear from the residents of Poestenkill, when that was not the case at all.
And in a preview of what to expect on Thursday, where we are all going to "get our three minutes," at 31:06 Plante gets silenced by Hammond.
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POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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April 23d 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - QUESTIONS FOR THE APRIL 25, 2024 PUBLIC HEARING"
In a notice just received in the mail last evening, April 22, 2024, from the town of Poestenkill, it states as follows:
WATER DISTRICT #2 PUBLIC HEARING
Public Hearing continuation on proposed Water District #2 will be held during the Town Board Workshop meeting on Thursday, April 25, 2024 @ 7:00 PM at the Poestenkill Fire House.
That continuation of the public hearing of May 11, 2023 by the Poestenkill town board brings back into play these following words from the public hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 public hearing, to wit:
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE of the following:
A Map, Plan and Report, dated August 2022 and revised April 2023, HAS BEEN ACCEPTED by the Poestenkill Town Board and is on file in the Poestenkill Town Clerk’s Office and available for public inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours.
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So the very first Order of Business when the May 11, 2023 public hearing continues is for the town board to explain in clear and precise language to each and every town resident what that phrase "has been accepted" actually means.
Does the word "accepted" in Poestenkill carry its normal meaning of "generally agreed to be satisfactory or right, valid or correct?"
Or this being Poestenkill, where up really means down and sideways means backwards, does the word "accepted" as used by the Poestenkill town board in their political lexicon carry some entirely different meaning known only to them?
And exactly what "Map, Plan and Report, dated August 2022 and revised April 2023" has been accepted by the town board?
Would it be the one on the town's website?
Or again, this being Poestenkill, which is quite famous in area political circles for its well-developed "two maps scam," where one map is shown to the public, while another is actually approved, is there another map out there and report and plan lurking someplace in the darkest recesses of the Poestenkill town hall boiler room?
Before the hearing on April 25, 2024 can go any further, we need that "PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE of the following" clause in the May 11, 2023 public hearing notice fully explained in clear language to everyone in the room, including an explicit statement as to what map has been accepted, what plan has been accepted and what report has been accepted.
As to the material the town just sent out about the hearing, it states "number of equivalent dwelling units IN DISTRICT =171" which is a blatant falsehood.
There are 171 dwelling units in CONSTRUCTION PHASE ONE of water district no. 2.
There are far more dwelling units than that in water district no. 2, which includes both sides of Rt. 66 east of Rt. 351, erroneously called "White Church Road" by the town's engineer Laberge at the May 11, 2023 public hearing, to the Sand Lake border.
So another pertinent question for the town board right at the beginning of the hearing when the gavel falls is why does the Poestenkill town board persist in lying to us?
As to the true bounds of water district no. 2, and the plan of development of the entire district, not just PHASE ONE, they are very clearly depicted on the map included as Appendix A of the Laberge Report accepted by the town board in August of 2022, which raises the question of why the Poestenkill town board keeps lying to us by showing us a map of a construction phase within a larger district while telling us the construction phase map is the district map, when according to the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing put out by the Poestenkill town board, that clearly is a falsehood?
Thus, at the commencement of the public hearing on April 25, 2024, it is the map in the Laberge Report accepted by the town board in August of 2022 that should be on full display, not this bogus map Laberge and the town keep springing on us, as if we were a bunch of hicks and rubes and generally just plain stupid people waiting and salivating to be taken to the cleaners by a slick-talking grifter adept at "palming the pea" in the old shell game.
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April 23d 2024 Edition
"THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM - QUESTIONS FOR THE APRIL 25, 2024 PUBLIC HEARING"
In a notice just received in the mail last evening, April 22, 2024, from the town of Poestenkill, it states as follows:
WATER DISTRICT #2 PUBLIC HEARING
Public Hearing continuation on proposed Water District #2 will be held during the Town Board Workshop meeting on Thursday, April 25, 2024 @ 7:00 PM at the Poestenkill Fire House.
That continuation of the public hearing of May 11, 2023 by the Poestenkill town board brings back into play these following words from the public hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 public hearing, to wit:
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE of the following:
A Map, Plan and Report, dated August 2022 and revised April 2023, HAS BEEN ACCEPTED by the Poestenkill Town Board and is on file in the Poestenkill Town Clerk’s Office and available for public inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours.
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So the very first Order of Business when the May 11, 2023 public hearing continues is for the town board to explain in clear and precise language to each and every town resident what that phrase "has been accepted" actually means.
Does the word "accepted" in Poestenkill carry its normal meaning of "generally agreed to be satisfactory or right, valid or correct?"
Or this being Poestenkill, where up really means down and sideways means backwards, does the word "accepted" as used by the Poestenkill town board in their political lexicon carry some entirely different meaning known only to them?
And exactly what "Map, Plan and Report, dated August 2022 and revised April 2023" has been accepted by the town board?
Would it be the one on the town's website?
Or again, this being Poestenkill, which is quite famous in area political circles for its well-developed "two maps scam," where one map is shown to the public, while another is actually approved, is there another map out there and report and plan lurking someplace in the darkest recesses of the Poestenkill town hall boiler room?
Before the hearing on April 25, 2024 can go any further, we need that "PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE of the following" clause in the May 11, 2023 public hearing notice fully explained in clear language to everyone in the room, including an explicit statement as to what map has been accepted, what plan has been accepted and what report has been accepted.
As to the material the town just sent out about the hearing, it states "number of equivalent dwelling units IN DISTRICT =171" which is a blatant falsehood.
There are 171 dwelling units in CONSTRUCTION PHASE ONE of water district no. 2.
There are far more dwelling units than that in water district no. 2, which includes both sides of Rt. 66 east of Rt. 351, erroneously called "White Church Road" by the town's engineer Laberge at the May 11, 2023 public hearing, to the Sand Lake border.
So another pertinent question for the town board right at the beginning of the hearing when the gavel falls is why does the Poestenkill town board persist in lying to us?
As to the true bounds of water district no. 2, and the plan of development of the entire district, not just PHASE ONE, they are very clearly depicted on the map included as Appendix A of the Laberge Report accepted by the town board in August of 2022, which raises the question of why the Poestenkill town board keeps lying to us by showing us a map of a construction phase within a larger district while telling us the construction phase map is the district map, when according to the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing put out by the Poestenkill town board, that clearly is a falsehood?
Thus, at the commencement of the public hearing on April 25, 2024, it is the map in the Laberge Report accepted by the town board in August of 2022 that should be on full display, not this bogus map Laberge and the town keep springing on us, as if we were a bunch of hicks and rubes and generally just plain stupid people waiting and salivating to be taken to the cleaners by a slick-talking grifter adept at "palming the pea" in the old shell game.