Lake Peekskill
You don’t bring us bagels……. anymore.
Lake Peekskill Improvement District Meeting
March 21, 2009
I love meetings.
Thanks Patty for the acknowledgement of my posts. I haven’t mastered your art of rapid fire reportage. It still takes me a couple of days to get the reports out. I disagree with your comment about Priscilla’s clothes. She wears blue jeans with a blouse to meetings sometimes, as if she is like the rest of us, and I appreciate the connection. I remember when the Carmelo crew started the suit thing, and I have never cared for it. The flannel shirt/blue jean board seemed more diligent.
Anyway, the LPID meeting was Saturday at Town Hall, not at our community center. Bob Tendy was dressed “casually” but sat in his chair above us, like the king. He was not as mean as he had been at the board meetings, but he was dismissive nonetheless.
There were a few people there – five residents. Priscilla was there. He didn’t invite her onto the dais with him. Skip, and another non-resident.
He talked about the $15,000 pork (earmark) that Vinnie Leibell got for the Singers Beach monument. Times are tough right now, and I really can’t see spending that much money when there are so many important concerns. To make matters worse, at several LPCA meetings, no one knew what the monument had said. So let’s give the money back, so it can be used for nurses or schoolbooks or food banks or how about veterans’ benefits. Mr. Tendy was talking about high taxes, yet he is always unwilling to make cuts. Is this the time for this expense?
He talked about garbage cans again. Can we please give it a rest?
He talked about garbage. I think he should call Mr. Hilyer, and ask him for his advertised litter cleanup on Morrissey Drive. There were some complaints about people bringing their garbage into LP because they don’t want to pay to have garbage pick-up. Back at the Comprehensive Plan hearings, I asked that we have a town and county solution to garbage, instead of just building more houses without services. It has been a problem for a long time. I requested that we have tv and computer pickup, perhaps once a month since the county is providing a dumpster. That will probably go nowhere.
I noted, as I went to the meeting, that the dumpster in front of Hugo’s was gone. I had blogged its presence in my last post, and then, it was removed. They say they don’t read the blogs. Bob said he had no idea that the dumpster was there. He seems to think that there was some building without a permit there. He has just discovered that. When the construction began, and the first dumpster was there, Ted Muniak asked him in a public meeting what was happening. Bob wouldn’t answer. Now he says he didn’t know about it. Since he has stated that these are friends of his, wouldn’t it have been friendlier to let them know what the rules were, instead of letting them spend all that money, and maybe have a problem later with their septic and lack of a well?
We talked about the salt storage, but he can’t figure that one out.
I asked about the alleged truck fueling at the alleged Tompkins, and he didn’t know anything about it. How is that possible? What kind of tanks? What is it made of? Where is the tank? Where is my letter? Why hasn’t he seen it? A barrage of questions. Why didn’t I send my letter to him? I finally stopped him and told him that I had done nothing wrong. I had reported it to the building department, and followed up on it. It is not my fault that there is fueling at that location. His aggressive questioning makes it difficult to report problems. I emailed the photos to him. The video wouldn’t go through to his email.
I remember now that Mr. Tendy said at a previous meeting that he knew about the rumors about truck fueling. Did he forget, or was he lying? Wouldn’t you think that a complaint about truck fueling would be notable? The photos were posted on the lohud blog months ago. He says he doesn’t read the blog, but there was a time when he did.
Geese, addling eggs. Is it too late? SOME PEOPLE don’t like the other methods of goose control. I assume that means he favors the BB method, and doesn’t appreciate my objections to it. We had tried to deal with egg addling at budget time, but Bob didn’t want to. He asked how much money is in the LP fund balance. He would like to spend it all the same way he spent Roaring Brook’s.
Someone brought up the site plan violation in front of the gym. There was no approval for that perpendicular parking, or for the removal of the sidewalk. Mr. Tendy seemed not to understand what a site plan violation is.
And Mr. Tendy wants our parking lot again. After all these years, he still can’t seem to figure out how to park there, so he will have Skip paint lines. He wants the town to take it over. He says there is no difference between town and district property. I’m waiting for him to pay my district taxes. He wants to spiff up the lot, and that will make all the difference. He said that he will bring his buds to the next district meeting to pack the room for his plan. (I am paraphrasing.) Why waste their time? The board will do what he tells them to do.
He disapproves of the civic association’s decision not to provide any financial support for his party on our property. He has decided how the civic association should be run, and what they should do. It hasn’t occurred to him that attendance and dues paid are way down since he’s been coming to the meetings and sending out his newsletter at our expense. He knows what civic minded means and he told us. It means volunteering for his party. We should be more like Roaring Brook. He advises some self-examination. The issue of insurance was again raised, and again, he said there is no issue, and would not explain or answer questions. The Lake Peekskill district did not receive any revenue from what was raised for his party, and expenses for using our property were not reimbursed.
He has put a lot of time into calls to the owner of the property next to Belotti’s. He told us that Tompkins and McKinney would maintain the property. He said that right after we discussed complaints about both of those properties. Why doesn’t this make any sense? I’m probably missing something.
As I left, I was looking at the Town Hall parking lot which has needed re-engineering and repair for years. I wonder why Mr. Tendy is so fixated on the Lake Peekskill lot.
DP
