Answer To Reader's Comments On My Last Post

Since the comment box would not take a long comment I am responding here instead to commenters on my last post. Thank you for your comments.

First to Jim...I doubt seriously there is a video of this meeting.  Maybe some private notes, but probably no official minutes the public can look at.  My experience says that Clif Schneider is pretty good at documenting with his notes. Check with him!  Good luck.

There is a reason this meeting was behind closed doors...legal or not.
Now as one commenter above pointed out...yes admittedly the story has changed with Freeman's change in opinion.  Question is...is anybody at the state level putting some pressure on him?  His comments sure look contradictory now based on a previous letter he wrote to another town and now in the WDT.

And I still think WPEG's involvement is odd.  They are a separate entity as a supposed anti wind group...which in fact publicly they are not anti wind...just like our town board is NOT anti wind.  They partnered with the town on certain intervenor funding issues which I think is awkward.
I still think in the end Freeman brought one very good point to light.  The town knows how controversial the issue is and should be extra careful.

And my comments and concerns still remain the same after what I observed in the gross lack of judgment our town officials demonstrated on the solar zoning fiasco created last summer with our so called "zoning experts" which even embroiled the town supervisor  They created a fiasco and then when they realized it their egos took over and they ran for cover.  And as far as I am concerned they did some very questionable things.  The handling of that issue was so messed up and distorted to me it call into question their judgment across the board. 

Then there is another issue I am aware of about the Art X process and what I consider some very inappropriate actions among the various "players". Not necessarily town officials.  I can't get into it now, but it makes me question what they are doing and the advice they are getting and how they are applying it and where it leads us under state control.

So when I comment, I am not just considering this meeting with their attorney, but a trend of actions over time, and some of those bad judgments are current and some go back a long time in the wind issue and I have outline some of those before.

I think this town govt has become so over committed to the Art X process, and working so hard to appease the process that they aren't thinking straight. Then they have the little blog information bubble to reinforce them and their supporters.   On the surface they try to walk a line to look reasonable to the state and not be anti wind...but as I am told behind the scenes everyone thinks they are anti wind.  More than likely the meeting with the attorney and WPEG was a venue where they can show more of their anti wind colors out of public view.  AND the State is not that stupid that they don't know what is going on with our law as a defacto anti wind law.

This walking two sides of the street instead of just being up front and opposing Art X and wind development in CV, gets them in trouble.  Like a liar with too many lies...sooner or later they lose track of the lies and the story gets distorted.

You can clearly see this in some of the letters they and their supporters right to the NYPSC. 
Like Brooks Bragdon.  Is he anti wind or not?  People think he is, yet he has clearly stated in public on video that if BP would work with our zoning law's wind regulations or something close to it, he would be willing to work with them.  Really Brooks???  You want to work with BP?  Even a few wind towers in CV is too many, and in fact would violate our comp plan intent.

And WPEG working directly with the town and their attorney sends a distorted message.  WPEG is supposed to be the independent grass roots anti wind" group in town. Does this official connection where the town and WPEG are involved in the intervenor issue together, and sitting in private attorney  meetings together mean the town is officially anti wind?   Like I pointed out, just imagine the stink if in the previous govt. Voters For Wind was having private meetings with the town board and a special pro wind attorney.  WPEG should have it's own funding, the town should have theirs, and if WPEG wants to make an impression on the town to  be anti wind or whatever they are, then write letters, talk to town officials individually or with no quorum , express yourself at public hearings and meetings and committees etc. Geee I wish they could convince the town to be outright anti wind and change their law.  But I don't care who the opinion comes from or not.  Private meetings such as this with a quorum of town board members legal or not are not wise and are a prescription for trouble.

Once again I will say it.  This town and it's citizens need to get a grip that as long as they appease the state and Art X process then we have no control and no home rule and this wind mess will NOT go away.  We will just play victim for years.

And if you don't believe me just look how the Art X judge left us twisting in the wind over this BP sale bullshit, after nearly a decade of our suffering as a community on this issue.

The town board needs to stop meeting behind closed doors and make a declaration to oppose and deny Art X, and wind development in this community for the defense of our town and region.

Until they do that it will just be one fiasco after another, just like rushing a zoning law to appease Art X that created a solar zoning fiasco, and the state and the next corporate wind developer will control us with no end in sight.