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General News: Village Building Inspector Quits
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| Building inspector Yancewicz defended his decision to close the DPW building earlier this year. |
December 13, 2010
The village of Cornwall-on-Hudson is looking for a new code enforcement officer following the resignation of building inspector Bruce Yancewicz. Yancewicz, who has been on the job for just a year, formalized his resignation in a letter to village board members on Monday.
After reading the letter, Mayor Gross said that he had been on the phone with officials in Goshen earlier in the day to get a list of qualified candidates for the position. Village board members also revealed that they had been trying to change a residency requirement for village officers in order to accommodate Yancewicz, who lives in Montgomery.
Mayor Gross said that he had a discussion on Friday with the building inspector in which they discussed the terms of his departure, although he did not go into details.
At Monday’s work session, other board members said they thought the village could skirt the residency requirement by agreeing to an inter-municipal agreement but left the decision of how to find a replacement in the mayor’s hands.
Yancewicz tried to shake up the building department, promising to more carefully enforce state codes after he started work last winter. In February, he called in a state inspector who backed up his decision to shut the department of public works building due to a lack of a building permit and other apparent code violations in the five-year-old building. That evacuation led to an on-going displacement of the DPW and a dispute over how to repair the facility.
The mayor said he understood the urgency of finding a short-term solution to the vacancy in the building department.
Later in the meeting, DPW head Dave Halvsorsen described some of the issues that he is encountering with his staff working out of a trailer. Water and sewer lines in the trailer broke last week in the cold, he said, and the floor of the unheated DPW building were also damaged by the temperature extremes. Both projects required electrical and plumbing work to be repaired and insulation was added to the trailer, Halvorsen said.
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Here is the video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06t3l8J-zyA
As allways they are at ArgenioAndrew on youtube
posted by Andrew Argenio on 12/14/10 at 11:23 AM
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Hooray!!!
Thank God, now I can try to reclaim the money extorted from me to build my deck. Try $1,000 for a building permit to rebuild a deck! I asked for the village approved rate schedule and oddly enough found no mention of charges per square foot for a roof. This guy is a crook and good riddance.
posted by Dudley Boden on 12/14/10 at 7:29 PM
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