All Entries Tagged With: "Yorktown Town Board"
Yorktown Town Board Approves Athletic Field Fee Increases
Outgoing Yorktown Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Jennifer Fava received the Yorktown Town Board’s support for a proposal that would up the fees for using town athletic fields at last week’s work session. The proposal would increase the fee for Yorktown residents from $15 to $45 per hour and from $30 to $75 for non-residents. [...]
Siegel: Yorktown 2012 Spending is ‘Reckless’
In a 3-2 vote, a majority of the Yorktown Town Board approved $288,000 in additional spending in the preliminary 2012 budget without increasing the tax rate. The measure, which was approved by council members Nick Bianco, Jim Martorano and Dr. Terrence Murphy, was described by outgoing Yorktown Supervisor Susan Siegel as “reckless and unrealistic.” “The [...]
Yorktown Candidates Debate Environmental Issues
The first debate of the political season was held in Yorktown on Sunday night. GreenYorktown hosted the forum at Temple Beth Am so the public could hear each candidate’s views on environmental policies and their vision for the Yorktown community. All of the candidates were against hydraulic fracturing for natural gases. They all also believed [...]
Audit Claims Cablevision Owes Yorktown $350,000
An audit of Cablevision franchise fees initiated by the Yorktown Town Board in mid-2009 has proven that Yorktown is owed over $350,000 because of irregularities in franchise fee payments. Yorktown participated at the request of then-supervisor Don Peters, who suspected there was a problem. “I worked with seven other municipalities to fund the audit because [...]
Comptroller’s Report Finds Fault with Past Yorktown Boards
The final draft of the state comptroller’s report titled “Ethics and Internal Controls over Purchasing Practices and Computer Use,” concerning the Town of Yorktown was released to the public on Friday, Aug. 12. The report is the result of a year-long audit investigation into the policies of the municipality. The audit, which covered the period [...]
Yorktown to Discuss Potential Use of Shallow Creek Golf
The Yorktown Town Board will consider whether the former Shallow Creek Par 3 Golf Course on Route 6 in Shrub Oak should be become a multipurpose recreational facility at the work session to be held on August 9. Shallow Creek closed and was donated to the town in 2007. It has since remained vacant. The [...]
Yorktown Officials Want a Probe on Audit Leak
Yorktown Town Board members announced during their meeting on Tuesday, June 21 that they wanted an investigation conducted to uncover who among them leaked the town’s confidential draft of the state comptroller’s office audit results. Councilman Jim Martorano, an attorney, said that he initiated a probe to see who gave members of the media access [...]
Grace and DeChiaro: Possible Running Mates
Two challengers to the Yorktown Republican-endorsed candidates are circulating petitions together and are generating talk that they plan on running as a ticket. Local lawyer Michael Grace and Winery at St. George owner Tom DeChiaro are gathering signatures to force a primary for
Audit of Yorktown Cites Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest and other questionable practices by the highway superintendent in the Town of Yorktown were identified in an audit report draft produced by the New York State Comptroller’s Office. “We are concerned that the Highway Superintendent has not always acted appropriately and in the best interests of the Town’s citizens,” the audit’s executive [...]
Yorktown Supervisor and Town Sued for Defamation
The Town of Yorktown and Supervisor Susan Siegel are being sued for defamation by two employees who claim she spread false rumors that they were having an affair. Highway Superintendent Eric DiBartolo and Patricia Cole, a 25-year employee for the highway department, had the suit filed on June 1 in Westchester County Supreme Court in [...]
Ciffone and DeChiaro to Petition for Yorktown Primary
The Yorktown Republican Committee may have endorsed a ticket, but Ed Ciffone and Tom DeChiaro are ready to collect enough signatures to cause a primary election for town council candidates in September. Each person who intends on running for office must collect signatures of people supporting his or her candidacy on a petition. Petition drives [...]
Yorktown Democrats Announce ‘User Friendly’ Ticket with Peters, Martorano, Campanaro for Town Board
“We want to make Yorktown user friendly again,” said Democratic Town Supervisor candidate Don Peters, at the Yorktown Democratic Committee convention held last night. Peters officially got the nod to run for the town’s top post and he found himself surrounded by familiar names and faces on the ticket. Michael Kaplowitz was deemed the committee’s [...]
