A Rouses Point trustee meeting Tuesday night at capacity as companies and residents come out over multiple, highly-contentious issues. ERS, the company that bought the old Pfizer facility, claims that the trustees are trying to violate the privacy of their tenants, 2CRSi, about how their business is operating. The trustees said there are concerns over power usage from the facility. Representatives of ERS were at the meeting. They said they’ve been willing to work with the village on their concerns over safety, but that all communications fell short. “Let’s walk through it and let me understand what you guys want done,” one ERS representative said. “If you want it done where it’s split across a different breaker, I was agreeable to it, then it went dead. But there’s no risk to any feeder line.”A green energy developer, also in attendance Tuesday, said they want to move into a portion of the former Pfizer plant. Their plan is to develop a technology for greenhouses with roofs that both generate solar power and allow light to pass through to grow plants. Hari Achuthan, President and CEO of Convalt Energy, said Rouses Point would be a great location and it would create much needed jobs in the area. If approved to start, they plan to hire 34 people in the first year and 40 in the next.The energy company needs the trustees to give them the go ahead to start their project. Achuthan claims that the board is not following the proper protocols and wants answers. The issue of Convalt Energy and their project was not on the meeting’s agenda and only discussed during public comment.”We get responses from the legal counsel which is not the methodology, it’s not the process, and it is not the way it’s supposed to work,” Achuthan said. “Unfortunately our applications are in but there is not response so it’s caught in a gray area. I’m not able to appeal it to the planning and zoning board because it’s not on their agenda.”Conflict continued to escalate among the Board of Trustees as well, as Mayor Jed Thone called for the resignation of his Deputy Mayor Dale Menard along with trustees Benjamin Arno and Brian Pelkey. The mayor said he’s calling for them to step down after a former village administrator left her position over alleged harassment from Trustee Pelkey. Deputy Menard and Trustee Arno are accused of trying to help cover this up.This all comes after trustees called for the mayor’s resignation at their January 3rd meeting. Trustees believe that Mayor Thone leaked a recorded executive session on YouTube. The mayor denies intentionally releasing any executive session recording.Mayor Thone as well as trustees Arno and Pelkey will all be up for re-election on March 1.
A Rouses Point trustee meeting Tuesday night at capacity as companies and residents come out over multiple, highly-contentious issues.
ERS, the company that bought the old Pfizer facility, claims that the trustees are trying to violate the privacy of their tenants, 2CRSi, about how their business is operating. The trustees said there are concerns over power usage from the facility.
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Representatives of ERS were at the meeting. They said they’ve been willing to work with the village on their concerns over safety, but that all communications fell short.
“Let’s walk through it and let me understand what you guys want done,” one ERS representative said. “If you want it done where it’s split across a different breaker, I was agreeable to it, then it went dead. But there’s no risk to any feeder line.”
A green energy developer, also in attendance Tuesday, said they want to move into a portion of the former Pfizer plant. Their plan is to develop a technology for greenhouses with roofs that both generate solar power and allow light to pass through to grow plants.
Hari Achuthan, President and CEO of Convalt Energy, said Rouses Point would be a great location and it would create much needed jobs in the area. If approved to start, they plan to hire 34 people in the first year and 40 in the next.
The energy company needs the trustees to give them the go ahead to start their project. Achuthan claims that the board is not following the proper protocols and wants answers.
The issue of Convalt Energy and their project was not on the meeting’s agenda and only discussed during public comment.
“We get responses from the legal counsel which is not the methodology, it’s not the process, and it is not the way it’s supposed to work,” Achuthan said. “Unfortunately our applications are in but there is not response so it’s caught in a gray area. I’m not able to appeal it to the planning and zoning board because it’s not on their agenda.”
Conflict continued to escalate among the Board of Trustees as well, as Mayor Jed Thone called for the resignation of his Deputy Mayor Dale Menard along with trustees Benjamin Arno and Brian Pelkey.
The mayor said he’s calling for them to step down after a former village administrator left her position over alleged harassment from Trustee Pelkey. Deputy Menard and Trustee Arno are accused of trying to help cover this up.
This all comes after trustees called for the mayor’s resignation at their January 3rd meeting. Trustees believe that Mayor Thone leaked a recorded executive session on YouTube. The mayor denies intentionally releasing any executive session recording.
Mayor Thone as well as trustees Arno and Pelkey will all be up for re-election on March 1.
