Contrived Emergency 3 and Lots to Look at Here 3 and 4
So you can go back and review the latest posts including the email from Councilor DeSmet.
First we recognized she sent this from her personal phone despite the fact that she explicitly told the reporter she doesn't use her personal phone for Village Business.
Second we recognized that a writ of mandamus was being used incorrectly in this instance. Incorrectly because you can't use a write of mandamus to force people to do things they can't/should not/are illegal to do.
Now let's finish up with two more items of consideration.
Looks like a threat doesn't it? Writ of Mandamus. You do what I want or I will take you to court. No wonder employees are quitting if they have to put up with that nonsense.
Yet again, a contrived emergency or two.
First contrived emergency- Let's get rid of the treasurer - let's make the Village such a miserable place to work and then demand money be spent by whom? A treasurer that isn't there? Sounds like a fake emergency. There is a post on this blog about the 4.9Million Federal Funds that the Three want to change - The council can vote randomly to change funding from one use to another - but if that funding is from a specific source for a specific reason no matter how much you want to - you can't change it. (And they have been told this. You would know this if you sat in that meeting as well.) And ARPA funds can't be spent without a treasurer.
Second - Let's get rid of the EMT Volunteer director and then scream about not having EMT. Let's support the fire department when they loan out the gurney in our ambulance and support the decision to loan out the ambulance to Peralta. Let's make it impossible to work in the Village even as a volunteer and then scream about what we don't have.
Just wait until people realize there is no zoning officer because the Three got rid of that position. When the residents are upset, guess what the Three will be yelling about next.
Go look at the budget yourself! I have. I'm just hitting the truth button.