A Change on the Somers Town Board is Overdue
Some Town Board members have been in place for over a decade, and this November, Mr. Cirieco and Mr. Faulkner are up for re-election after nine years, I believe.
They profess that they bring financial experience, but watching Town Board meetings for two years while they tried to form a sewer district under our nose, was very disappointing. When asked financial questions, they didn’t know the answers and never caught the financial errors; in fact, they seemed like they didn’t even know what was in the report. They voted on it, and thank God residents caught the errors and notified the comptroller. Something that would have affected so many financially should have been looked at better, not to mention that Mr. Faulkner created a website to push his agenda with the pro-sewer residents. In my opinion, this was unethical and he should’ve been fired. Our Town Board showed the residents during this fiasco that there is corrupt government everywhere.
Thankfully Supervisor Morrissey is stepping down. He has over-commercialized our small, quaint town and now an apartment building on Route 100 is going up. Why is it okay for him to take healthy trees down in Bailey Park and residents can’t on their own property? Why did we lose Pepsi and IBM and why didn’t he do more to bring in major companies to help keep our taxes down? The board proposed putting a 7-Eleven into the historic district where there is too much traffic. Why?
They have made changes to zoning laws for developments to go in and they allowed a night club on Route 118 to operate for years with illegal activity and excessive noise in a residential neighborhood. Why? Because the owner had connections and the board members didn’t care. We have a town code for a reason but nobody seems to enforce them.
We need board members who want to do right by the residents of this town and do things the right way.
Lori Jacobs
Somers
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