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2009 Putnam Valley Reorganization – January 5, 2009 I remember going to a Carmelo reorganization meeting in the snow once. This time I didn’t venture out, and it didn’t look like anyone else did. Almost no one went out in the snow for the Carmelo meeting either. Luckily, since Mr. Tendy talks to the camera, you will feel like you were in the room.

There wasn’t much reason to. Few surprises. Everything old is new again, or it’s just old. Status quo.

Councilwoman Keresey did object to appointing a different Chair to the Zoning Board without interviews. The rules of the Board, that the Board themselves make up and pass, and had just passed, say that there will be Board interviews. Mr. Tendy reprimanded Ms. Keresey for not looking at the reorganization edict before coming to the meeting.

Thanks to both Councilwomen for sticking up for the current Chair, even though it will be decided against them by the Republicans. Mr. Cinque is not actually a Republican, but he acts very much like one. Mr. Belefant, the current Chair, has brought the “communications” session of the zoning board meetings out of the back room. He has clarified the [...]