Thank You Note = Letter Of Disclosure?

Towards the end of January, I did a blog about a Letter Of Disclosure that the Supervisor was supposed to share with the Planning Board at their following meeting, which would have been June 23rd, 2008, according to this article.


Keep in mind that this article was June 19th, 2008, and the Supervisor was quoted as of June 10th in this article. But, the contents of the "letter of disclosure" were not immediately available at that time.

According to the Supervisor, this letter was to be disclosed at the following PB meeting, but nobody has seen this letter, so a resident had submitted a FOI request.

Here are the e-mails and the actual "Letter Of Disclosure".







This resident seems to be upset about something. I wonder what it is?



Oh.

I don't think I need to add any commentary to this one. Pretty obvious.
Notice the date of the Thank You Note/Letter Of Disclosure is June 9th, 2008.

Letter Of Disclosure FOIL Request

Back in June of 2008, Supervisor Heyman had 3 closed door meetings with 1-3 Planning Board Members and the developer of the project concerning Newport House. Because it was only 1-3 PB members, it can't be considered a 'quorum', therefore not an "illegal" meeting. (7 planning board members....4 PB members in that closed door meeting would have been a quorum. 1-3? Slick.)

Anywho, she said the reason she had the meetings was: "to move the project at least to the point where people have communication.”

She also said that she attended a May 2008 PB meeting (which is highly unusual) when the Newport proposal was first considered because she was "concerned" the residents didn't have a chance to speak before 10:15 pm.

SO concerned was she, about residents having a chance to speak, that she held THREE closed door meetings (without residents attending) to........what, exactly? Hear the residents that weren't there NOT speak?

Nobody knows. But of course she insists that she is "not trying to control or manage the Planning Board”.

Maybe "intimidate" would be a better word?

She "planned" to share, what she called, a "letter of disclosure" about those closed door meetings at the next PB meeting, which was June 23, 2008. But, true to form, she never did.

This is what is being FOIL'ed. We'd like to see the letter of disclosure, that she said she would share but never did.

Now, interestingly enough, the former D&C Irondequoit Town Blogger has been appointed to the Planning Board. A VERY vocal supporter FOR this project on many of his blogs.

Now he's on the Planning Board.

You guys are a smart bunch. I think you can make the connection here.

I just wonder if there ever was a letter of disclosure?

Hopefully, in about 21 days, we should get an answer.






Here is the link to the article from June 2008.