Brocton Police Dept “Reinstated” –

You are correct, I guess I took the part about re-hiring him as being on the payroll – even though they could not set a wage/salary because that part was not on the agenda. So, to set the record straight, he is rehired, but they could not set his wages until there is a meeting with that item on it.

Linda, I have taken three days to reply to you because I am amazed at your post. It would be easier to ignore you as you did the people who voted but I want to clarify a few things. Yes everyone knew your petition that you passed around did not represent the entire town. In fact you most likely chose carefully selected people that you knew would sign it. That’s fine! The petition that was passed to keep it was most likely no different. Your petition did raise discussion, in fact it was discussed at three meetings until the board put it on the ballot to be voted on and was willing to accept the vote. You and your group took it off the ballot! Then the people took another petition and put it back on. One board member publicly stated it didn’t matter how it was voted on she would never support it, remember? Another board member stated after the vote he would do nothing to support the police ever. As for discussion, did you or anyone else discuss at all any ways to give the people what they wanted? I don’t remember it. Was there ever any consideration as to how this police department could be kept? I don’t remember it! As for your canvas door to door, you still did not go to every house in town and in fact the information you collected was never shared to it’s entirety to the board. The referendum in my opinion was binding! In fact I believe that had all the information been presented to Judge Sullivan he would have felt the same way, maybe not I don’t know. All you have to do is search the site for the state board of elections, find the public safety referendums, and look at the four types listed. They are , Bond, Tax, Advisory and Misc. Ours was Not listed as an advisory, it was under misc. I called the state board of elections and was simply told, had it been advisory it would have been listed as such. It was written under the state statute 5-28-6. According to publications from the IML not once but twice they claim 5-28-6 is binding. But Ok if you want to say it was advisory so be it whatever. You claim this was done for a budget cut, but had no problem spending several thousand dollars on attorney fees, $10,000 on playground equipment and the purchase of Christmas lights. Nor did you care about giving away a potential of over $11,000 a year to give a liquor licence that would allow the same video gambling that is in the bar now and reopen our store. You claim you didn’t want drinking in Brocton on Sunday , but quickly said it was different for the legion to serve on Sunday. ??? As for rehiring Ray, the discussion was to raise Ray’s pay not set it. It was my belief that rehire would simply be just that, rehire at the same terms and conditions. In any event if need be, I will call a special meeting to take care of this argument. Oh yes the speed trap you claim we had, fact is we never set hidden on 49. We were always inside the village limits, and we never wrote anyone under 10 mph over the posted speed limit, as other towns have. Call it what you want, but it is not a trap! And for the smirk you think I had…..get over it. If I had a smile at all it was because the voters finally got what they voted for. Judge Sullivan stated that the board was elected to do a job, let them do it. You chose not to re run for the board and we now have a different board and different mindset. Deal with it!