Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Nelson Pope Voorhis And The Southold "NIMBY Clause".





 

09.27.2022 Featured Story
Consulting Agency Frequently Hired By Southold Town Faces Criticism Following NIMBY Clause In Recent Southampton Town Contract
By Brianne Ledda
 
A sign outside of Southold Town Hall (Credit: File Photo)
Locals raised concerns about the credibility of Nelson Pope Voorhis, a consulting agency frequently hired by Southold Town, at a town meeting last Tuesday.
 
The consultant came under fire in late August after it presented a contract to Southampton Town that included a clause stating, “As we go through the process of meeting with the community and the various stakeholders, we will be able to further clarify any of the opposition’s hot-button issues. We will seek to neutralize this by having them appear as traditional NIMBYs who consistently present misinformation to promote their own limited agendas and present a positive message through community leaders.”
 
The contract, which Southampton Town signed, was for NPV to redo an environmental review after a local lawsuit for an overlay district in Hampton Bays, according to 27East, which reported the issue and posted a picture of the contract clause. The Suffolk Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of the contract, which was not easily available online or in person from Southampton Town.
 
Southold resident Nancy Butkus raised concerns about Southold Town’s continued use of the consulting firm, just ahead of a Town Board vote on a resolution to transfer funds to pay NPV for its work on a plan for housing solutions. NPV was hired by the town to work with a community advisory board on drafting a plan to spend funds generated by a half-percent transfer tax on real estate purchases, if it is approved by local referendum in November.
 
“I don’t understand why Southold is moving ahead with this firm that’s proved to be compromised. They are working for developers and really have a vested interest in the developers, and not listening to all of us, who have been complaining about various issues,” Ms. Butkus said. “One of our local civic leaders went through and did this incredible traffic study. She’s got a master’s in engineering, she found all these mistakes, and yet, Nelson Pope stood behind it even though she’s an expert.”
 
NPV affirmed the accuracy of a study evaluating the potential traffic impact of the proposed Enclaves Hotel and Restaurant earlier this summer, after a local engineer and civic leader raised multiple concerns about accuracy. The town Planning Board accepted the report. 
 
Councilman Greg Doroski said NPV was the only firm to respond to a bid for work on the housing plan and emphasized that the Southold Town Board reviews contracts closely before signing.
 
“We draft our own contracts with these consultants. So what they are agreeing to are our terms. I don’t know what happened in this case,” he said, referring to NPV’s contract with Southampton.  “I can agree with you that I do think we need to take a hard look at what we’re having them do for us.”
 
Councilwoman Jill Doherty said she’s never personally encountered issues with the firm and is satisfied with the town’s contract for the housing plan. Supervisor Scott Russell said, in reference to the Enclaves traffic study, that both parties have expertise and it was “a disagreement between experts.”
 
“It’s not the consultant that accepts their own study. It’s not the consultant that accepts input. It’s the Planning Board that ultimately chooses to accept the findings,” Mr. Russell said.
 
Ms. Butkus asked that the Town Board review their contracts with NPV, questioning the agency’s credibility. Another local, Robert Dunn, reiterated her concerns.
 
“The fact of the matter is, if you pass this, and I want to see that half-percent [transfer tax], I really do … but I think you’re kind of diminishing its value when you use a consultant who has a lack of credibility,” Mr. Dunn said. “Clearly, that’s a lack of credibility. They were stupid in putting that in writing. It’s bad enough that they thought it … They were wrong. They were stupid and we shouldn’t hire stupid people.”
 
“With due respect to the elected officials who signed this contract, it’s not Nelson Pope Voorhis that did this for their own reasons. They were hired as a consultant for a municipality to do this,” Mr. Doroski responded.
 
Councilwoman Sarah Nappa added that Southampton accepted the NPV contract as written, and reiterated the care the Southold Town Board takes in signing agreements.
 
27East has reported the controversial clause was on the first page, under the first heading of the contract. NPV estimated the cost of community outreach would be $25,000 out of the more than $200,000 charged to redo work struck down in court last year.
 
Southampton town officials apologized and struck the clause from the contract, denying any plan to discredit opposition. Town supervisor Jay Schneiderman said he only scanned the scope of the proposal and did not see the clause. Multiple town offices similarly said they missed the clause.
 
The contract was also signed by a partner at NPV, who also denied intentionally including the clause. A town official said it was added by a public relations subcontractor that specializes in getting approvals for developers.
 
Brianne Ledda
Brianne Ledda is a staff reporter for Times Review Media Group. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism, along with a minor in history and environmental studies, from Stony Brook University in May 2021.
 
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Election Day: The REVISED Piermont Facebook.


Quoting Piermont New York Mayor Bruce Tucker, in The Piermont Newsletter, in the article entitled "A New Mayor And Trustee Take The Reins", published by the Piermont Civic Association, Fall 2017, Page 4:

"He [Tucker] also wants to make the Village’s website friendlier. 'There should be a picture of each official on it', he [Tucker] says, 'so if you see them on the street you can say [H]ello'".



Well, seeing as how Village of Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker never DID get around to grabbing those "reins" in quite the way that he wanted to during his almost seven years in office:
... then here's a directory with a picture of each Village of Piermont, New York official on it, along with their respective items of publicly-disclosed contact-information. I give you:

THE VILLAGE OF PIERMONT, NEW YORK 
REVISED FACE DIRECTORY
NOVEMBER 2024 EDITION:

First... The Garmento Mayor, Trustees, and Village Board

Garmento Mayor Bruce Edward Tucker.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Extension 304.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: btucker@piermont-ny.gov

Deputy Mayor and Piermont NY Village DisTrustee Mark William Blomquist.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Extension 304.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: mblomquist@piermont-ny.gov

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Outvoted quitter and now EX-Piermont NY Village DisTrustee Robert ("Rob") Burns.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: (He's not taking any calls).
Fax: (He's not taking any faxes).
E-mail: (He's not taking any e-mails).

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Piermont NY Village DisTrustee Christine McAndrews.
Former Member of the Village of Piermont Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
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Piermont NY Village DisTrustee pro tempore, Mayoral Puppetrix, Traffic Commission Member, Historical Society Board Member, and de facto Head SCULPTRESS Rondi Marie Casey.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.

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Piermont NY On Again-Off Again Village Trustee Nathan (Nate) Mitchell.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Chair, Piermont Waterfront Resiliency Commission.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: NMitchell@piermont-ny.gov

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Piermont NY Village DisTrustee Michael Emerson Wright.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: mwright@piermont-ny.gov

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Next... The Village Of Piermont Government Staff

Jennifer DeYorgi Maher - Piermont NY "Chief Fiscal Officer", "Treasurer", "Village Clerk", "Registrar of Vital Statistics", and Infamous Affiant:
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Extension 303.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: clerk@piermont-ny.gov

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Michele Marzo, Piermont NY Deputy Clerk and Treasurer.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Extension 302.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: deputyclerk@piermont-ny.gov

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Sylvia Carbonell, Piermont NY Village Clerk.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Option 1.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: receptionist@piermont-ny.gov

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Maggie Cavanaugh - Clerk, Piermont NY Building Department. 
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Option 4.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: buildingclerk@piermont-ny.gov

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Charles (Charlie) Schaub, Piermont NY Building Inspector and "Flood Plain Manager". 
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Option 4.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
building@piermont-ny.gov

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Joe Knizeski, Assistant Piermont NY Building Inspector.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258, Option 4.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: building@piermont-ny.gov

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Next... The Village Of Piermont, New York Planning Board
 

Christian (Chris) Catania, alias "Christian Charles", Piermont NY "Clerk to the Boards", "Administrative Assistant Building Clerk", and "Secretary of the Planning and Zoning Boards".
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: CCatania@piermont-ny.gov
https://www.facebook.com/christian.charles.5283
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David Levy, Piermont NY Planning Board Chair. 
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.

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Daniel Spitzer, Quitter, Ex-Piermont NY Planning Board Chair - and now as of October 10, 2024, Newly-Resuscitated Piermont NY Planning Board Chair - see:
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: (He's not taking any calls).
Fax: (He's not taking any faxes).
E-mail: (He's not taking any e-mails).

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Ed Nelson – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.

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Jerry Warshaw – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.

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Kim Stiefel - Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.

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Don Guyton – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-Mail: CCatania@piermont-ny.gov

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Mary Kirby – Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-Mail: CCatania@piermont-ny.gov

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Adra Bubesi Mounier – Resigned Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-Mail: CCatania@piermont-ny.gov
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And Finally... The Village Of Piermont, New York Zoning Board Of Appeal (ZBA)

Usha Wright – Chair, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Walter Cain – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA). 
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Peter T. Metzler – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Dr. Philip Tierno – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
The Village of Piermont, New York. 
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Gregg Manzione – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA). 
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Rochelle Spooner - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Kevin Timoney - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
The Village of Piermont, New York.
Phone: 1-845-359-1258.
Fax: 1-845-359-0466.
E-mail: usha.wright@gmail.com

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Monday, November 4, 2024

Piermont, Do You Speak YORG?: Translating From The DeYorgi Maher, Into The English Language.


Given that your Piermont, New York Village Hall government and Piermont Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker launched yet another farcical piece of propaganda into the wild on October 25, 2024, once again pretending to have made a proper “Referral” of a “Zone Change” to the Rockland County Department of Planning pursuant to New York State’s General Municipal Law (GML) Section 239-m:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-new-october-25-referral-piermont.html
... and given that this "Referral" has been signed-off on as follows:


… and, given that Garmento Mayor Tucker and his sycophantic enablers, a few months earlier, made Piermont “Village Clerk”, “Treasurer”, “Chief Financial Officer”, and “Registrar of Vital Statistics” Jennifer DeYorgi Maher alias “The YORG” execute an Affidavit dated April 4, 2024 (the “Yorg Affidavit”) then filed with the New York State Supreme Court and Justice Hal Greenwald, J.S.C. in New City, vouching for a prior and, in that case, utterly disappearing mailing while seeking a substantially-similar unsavory zoning result:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-yorg-de-yorged.html

… it is once again time to deflate the Village of Piermont, and translate each individual passage of the Yorg Affidavit for you, the Piermont resident. Let's now travel back in time to April 4, 2024 to make that happen, and see how we got here in the first place. Let's read, in veritable bas-relief, how Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker and his gang of undesirables wasted so much of the hard-earned money of Piermont residents in senseless litigation fees and costs. Let's get re-acquainted with Bruce Tucker's partner in grime - The Yorg:


These below translations are provided to you as a public service by “Unhand Piermont!” and “Get Your Hands Off Of Piermont”, whose carefully-researched communications can be found, inter alia, here:
garmentomayor.com
unhandpiermont.com
unhandpiermont.blogspot.com

What follows are the original individual textual passages from the now-infamous April 4, 2024 Yorg Affidavit. Each passage is first identified as “FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG: …” – and then translated for you immediately thereafter in text identified as “TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: …”

Point. Then counterpoint. Throughout.

Now, without further ado:

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Affidavit of Jennifer DeYorgi Maher

STATE OF NEW YORK
                                                    ) ss.:
COUNTY OF ROCKLAND

JENNIFER DEYORGI MAHER, being duly sworn, deposes and says:

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“1. I am the Village Clerk for the Village of Piermont, located[sic] 478 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York 10968 (the “Village”). I have been the Village Clerk for over 10 years. I am personally familiar with the facts set forth below, particularly as it involves referrals under section 239-m of the General Municipal Law.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“1. Unbelievably, Mayor Bruce Tucker and Piermont Village government have lauded me with multiple titles over the past ten years. Those titles include “Treasurer”, “Village Clerk”, “Chief Financial Officer”, and even “Registrar of Vital Statistics” at one point. After you read this theatre-of-the-absurd document from start to finish, you will want to add “Affiant”, “Mail Un-Carrier”, and “Chief Yorg” to the list.”

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“2. I submit this affidavit in response to three letters I received from the County of Rockland, Department of Planning dated December 11, 2023 to the Village of Piermont Planning Board, December 12, 2023 to the Village Board of Trustees, and January 8, 2024 to the Village of Piermont Planning Board (collectively, the “County GML letters”). Copies of the letters are annexed hereto as Exhibit A.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“2. I actually realize and acknowledge that Rockland County exercises advisory authority over the Village of Piermont on zoning changes, per applicable General Municipal Law (GML). So now I am going to proceed to tell you all why Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker and I think that we should all just ignore the Rockland County Department of Planning anyway.”

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“3. Specifically, the County GML letters relate to a site plan, special permit[,] and subdivision application to construct a 14-unit multi-family dwelling development (the “Project”) located at 447-477 Piermont Avenue (the “Property”). The Property is a dirt lot located across from Village Hall and located in the Central Business Multi-Use (“CBM”) Zone District.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“3. Specifically, the County GML letters relate to Mayor Bruce Tucker’s last desperate attempt to shakedown some major cash out of some Jersey developers, to the tune of a confiscatory US$312,000 in taxes and permit fees in the first year, and then US$112,000+ in taxes each year after that:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/another-piece-of-nonsense-from-tina.html
The reason that the Garmento Mayor is so desperate for this money is because he spent Piermont into a negative US$7,600,000 Net Position hole from an original US$800,000 surplus over a past short few years:
And as the Village of Piermont’s “Treasurer” and “Chief Financial Officer”, guess what?... I helped him!"

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“4. The CBM Zone District was established by the Village Board on March 8, 2023 after over two years of review by the Village Board of Trustees, and Planning Board in consultation with our Village Planner, Nelson Pope and Voorhis.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“4. Let’s be real. The Piermont “Village Board of Trustees” and the Piermont “Planning Board” are well-known to be solely populated by the hand-picked hand-puppets of Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker. As for the “Village Planner”, it’s astounding to see what pay-to-play people will actually write for you if you pay them enough. Just look at how Nelson Pope and Voorhis promised to characterize innocent Southold NY residents as ‘traditional NIMBYs who consistently present misinformation’. Nelson Pope and Voorhis acts like a municipality’s hit-squad:

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“5. All three County GML letters contained in Exhibit A state to the[sic] ‘Disapprove’ the project because ‘[T]he Rockland County Department of Planning has no record of receiving this local law for review.’ The letters also state that ‘[D]ue to the fact that the Village failed to refer this zone change to the County, the zone change is considered invalid and therefore the County recommends the disapproval of this application.’ The letters further state that ‘[S]ince the local law that created the CBM District was not properly referred to this Department as required by [sic]General Municipal Law and is jurisdictional[sic] defective, …this application must be disapproved.’”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“5. You would think that once the Rockland County Department of Planning let us at the Village of Piermont know that the County never received the local law for review, the first time - not even waiting for the third time! - some luminary in Piermont Village Hall would have figured out that it really might be a good idea to serve the County with the required documents in a more verifiable and trackable way. But then again, that assumes candlepower. Bruce Tucker is a sheet and towel salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey. And they call me The Yorg.”

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“6. As the Village Clerk, I take exception to these County comments because they simply are not true. In my ten years as Village Clerk, I always mailed referrals as required by the General Municipal Law and never missed an instance doing so when required by law.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“6. At least… I THINK that I did… Didn’t I, Bruce?... (Bruce?...)”

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“7. In fact, as it pertains to the CBM Zone District, I specifically mailed the GML referrals on January 10, 2023. A copy of what I mailed to the County Planning Department[sic] is annexed hereto as Exhibit B, which consists of the proposed draft law and short form environmental assessment form.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“7. So even though it is now April 4, 2024, being duly sworn I am now going to depose, say to you, and swear unequivocally to something that I say happened 15 months ago. Because I said so. Period. Of course I mailed it to the County on January 10, 2023. I always mail those annoying things out… Right, Bruce?... Never mind that the County Attorneys representing the County of Rockland, each an officer of the Court and a member of the Bar, swear that the County never, ever received the January 10, 2023 packet that I say that I sent. Because who are you going to believe – a couple of officers of the Court and members of the Bar sworn to uphold the law - or me, a Yorg?"

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“8. Annexed hereto as Exhibit C is a copy of the Village Board of Trustees minutes from January 17, 2023. Specifically, the minutes state: 

Item #4 – Old Business Village Clerk-Treasurer stated the GML for the zoning change in the downtown district was mailed on January 10, 2023. The Public hearing is set for February 7, 2023. It’s most likely too early to receive any feedback from the County so the Village Clerk-Treasurer is suggesting the Public Hearing be changed to March 7, 2023, to allow enough time for commentsMayor Tucker made a motion to move [sic]Public Hearing for the zoning change in the downtown district to March 7, 2023. The motion was seconded by Trustee Blomquist and so carried with a vote of 5 ayes and 0 nay[sic]. (See Minutes from January 17, 2023 Village Board Meeting at p.2).”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“8. Never mind that I never saved any copy of any postmark on the January 10, 2023 mailing as the statute requires as a showing of proof, and never made anyone else save any such copy of any postmark either. Never mind that I never executed a contemporaneous affidavit of service on January 10, 2023 with the mailing – which any lawyer would have advised me to do for any mailing of legal significance. Instead, just read my above self-serving textual excerpt from the January 17, 2023 Village Board minutes and take my word for it. Just do it."

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“9. At the January 17, 2023 meeting, I specifically confirmed that I mailed the GML[sic] to the County on January 10, 2023 and suggested adjourning the public hearing on the proposed zoning to March 7, 2023 to allow time for agency comments.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“9. …And while you are at it, look up “ipse dixit” in the dictionary. It’ll be fun”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipse_dixit

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“10. In the same January 10 mailing, in addition to County Planning, I also mailed referrals to the Town of Orangetown and the Village of Grandview. Both the Town of Orangetown and the Village of Grandview received my January 10, 2023 GML mailing. The minutes of the Orangetown Planning Board dated February 8, 2023 (annexed hereto as Exhibit D) specifically state in the “Other Business” section[:] “2. Village of Piermont Referral for a Zoning Amendment. The Board reviewed information and had the following comment: The Short Environmental Assessment Form needs to be signed and dated.” As a result of the County’s allegations, I contacted the Village Clerk for Grandview who also confirmed that she received the GML I mailed on January 10.” [Bold-face emphasis added].

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“10. Yet notice how I completely fudged the Village of Grandview portion of Paragraph 10 of this Yorg Affidavit, above. Purposely withheld from view in this document is the fact that the Village of Grandview did not receive the GML “January 10” mailing and date-stamp it until March 14, 2023 – over two months after I say that I mailed it to Grandview, and six days after the subject ‘local law’ was enacted by Piermont! Check out these public-record papers from the Court file and the newspapers!:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-yorg-de-yorged.html







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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“11. It has always been my understanding under section 239-m of NY General Municipal Law that all I am required to do is either deliver by hand or by mail to the County Planning Department. The date of delivery here was January 10, 2023, the date I sent it to the post office to be post-marked.” [Bold-face emphasis added].

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“11. Wait a minute. It’s all coming back to me now. In retrospect, I must not have delivered it by hand to the County, first of all. And I must not have walked that few hundred feet from Village Hall at 478 Piermont Avenue to the Piermont Post Office down the block at 393 Piermont Avenue, to mail it myself, either, because why would I actually do that? Therefore, I am telling you here that I “sent it” to the "[p]ost [o]ffice". “Sent it”. No, I didn’t actually “mail” it. I “sent it” to the "[p]ost [o]ffice"… (Huh?)… So there goes the chain of custody right out the window, I guess. And don’t ask me how and by what method I “sent” it to the Piermont Post Office a few hundred feet away, or by whom or what instrumentality or service I “sent” it to the Piermont Post Office a few hundred feet away, because there is no possible way I could ever remember that, and, if I did actually remember that, I would have written it in this Affidavit of mine to begin with, right? I mean, maybe I gave it to somebody else to mail for me, I don’t know. For that matter, I'm not even saying in this sworn Affidavit that I sent it to the Piermont Post Office. Read the bold-face text above, again. Rather, I'm just saying that I sent it to the "[p]ost [o]ffice", lower-case!... Ha!... And why are you questioning me? I mean, it’s not like I threw the mailing down the sewer or anything, right?”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_service

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“12. Not having received anything from the County within 30 days of January 10, 2023, almost two months after sending its GML[sic], the Village duly[-]adopted the CBM Zone District at its March 8, 2023 meeting by a vote of 4 to 0. Annexed hereto as Exhibit E is a copy of the minutes from that meeting.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“12. Of course, here I am going to once again try to blame the County for non-responsiveness. Blame the victim. Yet I never saved any copy of any postmark proving a January 10, 2023 mailing. I never made anyone else save any copy of any postmark proving a January 10, 2023 mailing, either. In fact, I don’t even know how or by what method or by whom I “sent” it “to” some unspecified "[p]ost [o]ffice" fifteen months ago, because if I did I would have put that in this stupid Affidavit. Maybe I used levitation or telekinesis. I think I saw the Amazing Kreskin do that on television once."

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“13. The CBM [z]one [d]istrict was reviewed, studied[,] and subject to public hearing and voted upon after deliberation by the Village Board with comments from our Village Planner.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“13. The essence of good local government is to make sure that you surround yourself with a bunch of bombastic-sounding artificial titles, as well as a dependable group of taxi-dancers who will do your bidding whenever asked. Take it from me, the Village of Piermont’s ‘Treasurer’, ‘Village Clerk’, ‘Chief Financial Officer’, and ‘Registrar of Vital Statistics’… No, really.”

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“14. I do not know why the County alleges it did not receive the GML referral when other agencies did receive the Village mailing. The fact of the matter is that I did mail the GML which is all that I am required to do.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“14. …Then again, perhaps the County alleges that it did not receive the GML referral, because it did not actually receive the GML referral. Maybe I should have thought of that before I executed this Affidavit for its intended submission to the Court. And maybe I should have owned-up to the fact that a Grandview GML which I swear was also mailed on January 10, 2023 was actually received and date-stamped by Grandview on March 14, 2023 – over two months later, and six days after Piermont enacted the subject local law… (Oops…)”

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FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG:

“… WHEREFORE, based on the foregoing, and despite the County’s claims, the Village satisfied the GML referral requirement. The County Planning Department is incorrect in its statement which is why I am submitting this sworn affidavit to correct the record of this matter.”

TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL YORG INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

“… WHEREFORE, when faced with a credibility confrontation as between two officers of the Court and members of the Bar on the one hand, and a Yorg on the other hand – always side with the Yorg. At least until law enforcement shows up at the door of Village Hall, perhaps. Then, if that happens, roll over on the Garmento Mayor and let him face the consequences by his own sad self."

/s/
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Jennifer DeYorgi Maher

Sworn to before me this
4 day of April, 2024
/s/

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Christian Catania
Notary[,] Rockland County
License #01CA362207
Exp: 07/24/2025