The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their monthly meeting Monday evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
- [Vote] Ordinance Amending Title 8, Deleting in its Entirety, Chapter 5,
Equestrian Trail License Ordinance 21 – - [Vote] An Ordinance Approving a Text Amendment to Add Canine Day Care
and/or Doggy Day Care with Grooming, Training and Boarding, Day Care/Child
Care/After School Care and Church/House of Worship to the List of Special
Uses in the B3 General Business District Ordinance 21 – - [Vote] An Ordinance Amending Title 4, Building Regulations of its Code of
Ordinances to Update Code References Ordinance 21 – - [Vote] A Resolution Authorizing and Approving the Execution of an “Amazon
Locker Location Agreement” Allowing Placement of an Amazon Delivery
Kiosk/Locker in Village Hall Resolution 21 – - [Vote] Equestrian Commission Appointment: Tricia Wood – Term through April
2022 - 9th Annual The Hills Are Alive Fall Festival – Sunday, September 19th – Noon
to 4 PM
A copy of the disappointing agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Why disappointing you may ask? Because for the third month in a row this administration has failed to step up publicly to address a clear conflict of interest existing at our Village Hall. Matter of fact, there isn’t even a place on the agenda to report what was discussed at the specifically nonspecific Personal Committee meeting held Monday.
Residents deserve better.
A comment posted last month on this subject by an individual who knows VBH code better than most when it comes to conflict of interest…
“Section 1-7-1 of the VBH Code entitled “Interest in Village Contracts, Business Prohibited” provides that:
‘No officer of the Village shall be directly or indirectly financially interested in any contract, work or business of the Village, or the sale of any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is paid from the Treasury, or by any assessment levied by any act or ordinance; or in the purchase of any real estate or other property.’
The appointment of a spouse of an elected official to an employment position with the Village was improper an improper appointment to begin with and now is compounded by the fact that the spouse of this elected official is Village President. While I view Brian Cecola and Stephanie as friends it would be disingenuous of me to have raised this provision with a Trustee and political adversary who appeared before the ZBA as counsel for an applicant while remaining silent in the face of a more egregious violation because it is a political ally.
Successful government in a free society requires laws be enforced equally among those in power and among those whom they govern. I am confident Village Counsel, Village Manager and BOT have brought §1-7-1 of the Code to the attention of VBH President Cecola and now equipped with this knowledge Mr. Cecola and Stephanie are taking immediate steps to rectify this wrong.”