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
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.
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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
) 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. 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:
https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2022/09/consulting-agency-frequently-hired-by-southold-town-faces-criticism-following-nimby-clause-in-recent-southampton-town-contract/
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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?)…”
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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:
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:
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:
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:
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” the post office 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/
_________________________
Jennifer DeYorgi Maher
4 day of April, 2024
/s/
_____________________________
Notary[,] Rockland County
License #01CA362207
Exp: 07/24/2025
