Benny Salami and Patches could get together and then you would have a drunk piece of ugly sausage......

The DEMS lied about the memorial and now must pay for what they said they would pay for. Working together except when the bill is presented. Then they run like hell in different directions. Take it out of the new public safety slush fund or the County DEM slime mailer fund. The taxpayers are sick of paying for these DEM liars. Be it pensions, pension padding that they all knew about or veteran memorials.

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I'm not an fdg fan......but he did pay for it when he refused his salary. Just like the senior gossip center kitchen....yes? It reallydidn't cost the rotterdam taxpayers a dime since the super's salary was already in the budget. UNLIKE THE ALS $$$ !!

But ND has to be a grand stander!

Well, actually, I disagree with this.  Think about this.  If you have a cause that is so dear to your heart that you wish to make a donation to it, how do you do it?  Well, after you work for hours and hours during the week, you get a paycheck, and send the portion that you wish to the cause that you wish to support.  The other thing is, when you get that paycheck, there's these little things that also show up in there, they're called taxes.  If Mr. Del Gallo would like to make a donation equal to the amount of money that would have been in his paycheck, then he should receive said paycheck, then signed it directly over to the town to do what they wanted, or to be put towards the project of his choice. With the way things went with both the donations for this project and for the project last year on the senior center, it appears to me that there could actually be tax implications that could be brought against Del Gallo.  
As far as your remarks, you're correct, he REFUSED his salary, therefore he didn't earn the money.  If he did and donated it to the project, then fine, he did that, but instead, he transferred the money from his salary to it, so you can't in any way, say that it wasn't tax money.  Now, you could be accurate in stating that there was no ADDITIONAL cost of taxpayer money, over and above his salary, but even with the transfers that were tabled tonight, that brings to light that this would have been a farce.  There was money put aside for other veterans items that was transferred towards this... unless you're going to tell me that the other money wasn't taxpayer money, too.

Those keeping this going.....it's time to stop....January is approaching...take it up on the floor of the TB meeting...

In the meantime, give Mr. Del Gallo respect for putting up with the irratonal behavior of the TB while he served in his office.

At this point, who cares where, what, when....it's a done deal.....I am sure that there is money owed to him...and where is the

unused money that was left in the budgeted amount for salaries for PT workers at the Sr. Ctr???....hours were cut....

what amount of money is owed from the dire straits' family...for product taken and facilities used for private use....

No one seems to care about that....WHY ???    the person behind it with the TB are a bunch of liars and thieves....and that's

a fact.....

Seems like the events that should be questioned are not....and only what is going to make FDG look bad....well, he prevailed

and will prevail....The whole ADMINISTRATION should be investigaed....for their lies, corruption, and devious ways...

NOT A DEMO FAN.....and don't support any of this mud slinging regarding the Memorial....it's done...respect what it stands for..

AMEN

school yard idiots.....these are our adult leaders?.....HOLY SH!T!!!!!

it's like the Harper Valley PTA.......

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ROTTERDAM
Board spars again over monument
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Incoming town Supervisor Harry Buffardi will ask for a state audit of the Del Gallo administration’s finances, following a revelation that the outgoing supervisor may have violated the town’s procurement policy in building a veteran’s memorial.
    Buffardi said he likely would have asked for the state Comptroller’s Office to review the town’s finances anyway, to gain a better understanding of how the administration conducted business over the past two years. But given how material was purchased for the monument outside Town Hall, he said a full audit seems called for prior to the new administration taking offi ce.
    Buffardi said invoices from the project appear to show Supervisor Frank Del Gallo reimbursing his friends for materials that he originally characterized as donated. Del Gallo did not collect his $13,000 salary this year and claims he transferred money to pay for the monument from his salary line in the budget.
    “It smacks of impropriety,” Buffardi said Thursday. “It’s highly inappropriate to bill back for services that have already been completed.”
    Buffardi’s comments came a day after members of the Town Board met for the last time this year. Like many before it, Wednesday’s meeting was characterized by verbal sparring between Del Gallo and board member Nicola DiLeva.
    Del Gallo blasted the board for making an issue of a benevolent project that was only partially built with his donated salary. He said those board members claiming the monument cost tax dollars are spreading lies and sullying the contributions of all the people who made the project possible.
    “I don’t know if someone is being dishonest,” he growled during the meeting. “If they are, they’re all wet.”
    DiLeva said Del Gallo’s salary was not his to donate. Once he didn’t accept the money, she said it had to go back into the town’s general fund and couldn’t have been allocated without board approval.
    Board member Wayne Calder said Del Gallo appeared to have spent his entire salary on the project before he even received the pay. Rotterdam supervisors who accept their salaries receive pay on a biweekly basis, meaning Del Gallo wouldn’t have been able to use his accrued salary money to cover the bulk of the invoices received by the town until the last week of his term.
    “You spent it before you got it,” Calder said.
    Calder stressed that he doesn’t believe Del Gallo intended to do anything wrong or stole from the town. . .......................>>>>...................>>>>.................................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r02001&AppName=1

HEARD IN THE DONUT SHOP

THE NEW REGIME IS ON A MISSION.  and the takeover is not going to be transparent.

The State should audit all departments and find excessive amounts of monies for many things....

Sr Center product and applicance purchases in excess....

St Ctr renovation and redecoration

Town property destroyed without permission and not repaid.

Summer program work hours investigated

Cheating on work hours submitted....time sheets ripped up and new ones submitted.

Budgeted monies unused and where did the money go

Monies owed for unpaid wages....

Foils not produced in a timely manner.

Unethical treatment revealed in a HR investigation....and outxome not followed by the offender for grievances.

There is more to what a State Audit will reveal.....lots of coverups besides the Memorial.....and the truth will be revealed

but not by the HB REGIME....Everyone is set in place for the takeover....and will reveal only those events that will benefit

the Dems....NOW IS THE TIME FOR RESIDENTS TO SPEAK UP...the waste was rapant...and small money leads to bigger money.

THE AUDIT IS POINTED IN ONE DIRECTION....FOLLOW THE MONEY.....FDG WILL PREVAIL....CONSTITUENTS ARE THE CULPRITS..

And who do you think is going to audit the democratic controlled rotterdam town finances???
Who do  you think is watching the hen house???

Rotterdamians had their chance in the last election and blew it! So now they have to live with it! Poor bastards!

I predict a whole bunch of Nayboobs will be behind bars over this theft........ the criminal conspiracy was cooked up at GOP/NNTP boob-quarters........ What a stain on the Veterans and First Responders who this was supposed to be for -- It was NOT intended to fill the hungry pockets of the greedy.

Another instance of DEMS working together to rape the taxpayers. State audits are an excellent idea by the Supervisor elect and should expand to the County, Metrograft {which refused to correct scandals from the first horrible audit}, County IDA, City IDA, Town IDA and the City Hall. Audit everything ruined by the DEM liars. REPS have wanted to audit County DSS for years but were prevented by the working together crew. The incoming all DEMS are looking to do everything to disgrace FDG while ignoring their total incompetence, complicity and lack of oversight. The town DEMS should be forced to pay off this debt which was sold as all voluntary. FDG should have never trusted a bunch of liars and backstabbers who would have fit in in Ancient Rome.

Same same DEMS that are wringing their hands over a slight cost overrun at this monument said nothing when Metrograft dumped one million taxpayer dollars into the Big Hose. They approved dumping one million dollars into the Gillette House "rehab" which still sits totally empty and off the tax rolls. Take the missing $3,000 out of the bloated DEM slime mail fund. No one will miss the junk mail.

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It smacks of impropriety,” Buffardi said Thursday. “It’s highly inappropriate to bill back for services that have already been completed.”

This coming from the guy who couldn't pay his taxes on time and had a tax warrant issued against him.  Talk about impropriety.

SHOW ME THE $$$ TRAIL.......

like a blood hound......I think I might rent some from my neighbor......

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DiLeva should have raised issue before now

    Re Dec. 14 article, “Del Gallo says veterans memorial costs covered by his donated salary”: Rotterdam Town Board member Nicola DiLeva continues to demonstrate her personal disdain toward [outgoing] Supervisor Frank Del Gallo by formulating her opinion that the supervisor should not have a say in how his donated salary should be used for the good of Rotterdam residents. In this case, specifically, for the recently completed veterans memorial located outside Rotterdam Town Hall.
    Did DiLeva not notice the construction activity that started in July 2010, and think to ask a question or two about the funding?
    Let me propose a couple of answers: If she did notice the construction and did not inquire about the funding, it points to incompetence; and if she did inquire, she knew the answer all along, which makes the regurgitation of this issue nothing but a sham, fostered by personal and partisan politics.
    Where was her cry of malfeasance last year when Supervisor Del Gallo directed that his donated 2010 salary be used for the benefit of the Rotterdam Senior Center on Hamburg Street? Would it have been too burdensome to just say thank you for your service?
    As we begin a new year, let us hope this bickering called politics in Rotterdam (and elsewhere?) turns into an attitude that fosters cooperation and open government for the good of the residents.
    Oh, by the way, thank you for your service, Supervisor Del Gallo.

    JAMES D. CARANGELO
    Rotterdam Junction

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r03204&AppName=1

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Did DiLeva not notice the construction activity that started in July 2010, and think to ask a question or two about the funding?

She must have missed that meeting (s)