>the fly has learned that Albert Pucciarelli Planning Board Vice Chairman is looking to ad the Village council to his very impressive resume

>the fly has learned that Albert Pucciarelli Planning Board Vice Chairman is looking to ad the Village council to his very impressive resume

the fly has learned that Albert Pucciarelli Planning Board Vice Chairman is looking to ad the Village council to his very impressive resume .Pucciarelli has served the village on the zoning and then the planning board for a combined  20 plus years .This 20 years of Village involvement has put Pucciarelli in the thick of things on virtually every major issue the Village currently faces including Valley Hospital , Graydon Pool and the Town Garage debacle .

In language peppered with buzz words from the Pro- Valley expansionist and the Village Urbanization crew Pucciarelli  has been careful not to give away his hand as to where he stands on some of the more controversial issues . He has stuck with the rhetoric of the anti-council crew sighting the 2011 budget rise of 7.4 %,contract negotiations made with police and fire , storm damage, numerous lawsuits, and reduced property values and of coarse the 12 % increase to Village Manager Ken Gabbert .

We have heard all this before from the Urbanization gang of Ed Sullivan,Russ Forenza as well as councilmen Paul Aronsohn  leaving regular readers of this blog wondering were was Mr. Pucciarelli during the disgraceful and well chronicled Village Hall Fiasco , the golden toilet, the Town Garage ,Ridgewood Taxi , the Tenhove car crashes and an innumerable bunch of silly Village budgets set up to hide and obfuscate the Villages true financial condition, not to mention his association with McElroy, Deutch, Mulvaney & Carpenter attorney’s for Valley Hospital ?

So you ask does this mean anyone with even the slightest association to Valley Hospital should be treated as guilty until proven innocent? The answer is yes and given Valley’s behavior during the “Renewal” process as well as former mayor David Pfund’s inability to mention his father was a trustee of Valley as well as his law firm represented Valley , all candidates should expect harsh scrutiny .