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But Legislators Gerold Bierker, C-Bardonia, and Doug Jobson, R-Stony Point, did a good job of leading the audience at Tuesday’s Legislature meeting in a rendition of “God Bless America.”
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Working for a morning paper, the Rockland County Legislature meeting lasted long after my deadline last night. When I left around 9:30 p.m. or so, the Legislature was only halfway down a long list of people who had signed up to speak on the so-called “flow control” proposal that would give the Solid Waste Management Authority the right to mandate that all trash haulers, even private carriers, bring waste to county-owned facilities.
The vote didn’t happen until around midnight. Yikes.
After hearing hours of comment, mostly negative, legislators voted 11-4 to approve the law with the “nay†votes coming from Legislators Gerold Bierker, C-Bardonia, Ed Day, R-New City, Joseph Meyers, D-Airmont and Frank Sparaco, R-Valley Cottage.
The Legislature previously struck down a motion to table the issue, 5-11 with Bierker, Day, Meyers, Sparaco and Legislator Doug Jobson, R-Stony Point, voting in favor of tabling the proposal.
Several members of the Legislature sit on the Solid Waste Management Authority.
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I attend most of the County Legislature’s meetings, held the first and third Tuesday’s each month. They are interesting for the most part, but can get a little dry.
Well last night was anything but. A simple public hearing and subsequent vote on a law to mandate recycling programs for plastic bags turned into an all out snit-fest.
It all started when Legislator Gerold Bierker, C-Bardonia, called for motion to table the resolution until it could be heard by the Solid Waste Management Authority. (Keep in mind that the SWMA doesn’t recycle plastic bags.)
The only votes of encouragement he got were from the five members of minority parties (the sixth—Legislator Doug Jobson, R-Stony Point—was absent.) So Bierker’s motion got shot down by Dem power.
But the motion then causes Legislator Ilan Schoenberger to remark that no member of the minority parties had brought up the SWMA issue previously and that it was a display of party-line voting. He also noted that if a minority member had sponsored the law along with him and 
Legislator Connie Coker, D- South Nyack, it would have passed smoothly.
Which then led Bierker to comment “that when the lower tier votes, it’s a called a party line vote. But when the Democrats vote I presume it’s called democracy in action.”
Ding! Round Two.
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I know it’s probably crushing to find out that Christina Jeng was taking much-needed time off this week and wasn’t able to do this week’s Week in Review podcast. But transportation reporter Khurram Saeed graciously volunteered and worked with photographer/videographer Peter Carr to produce this week’s installment.
After the break, there’s a list of links to related articles.
Here’s the podcast:
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Hey all,
Here’s this week’s review. Below the podcast, I’ve included links to the articles mentioned and the videos shown in the review. Check ‘em out and have a relaxing weekend.
Download:
Links to related articles:
Ramapo bloc vote decides Rockland DA and sheriff races
Zugibe ousts Bongiorno in Rockland district attorney race
Stony Point legislator takes slight lead after election night errors are caught
One more seat for Rockland Legislature Democrats causes power shift
Students at Albertus Magnus, Felix Festa recovering from MRSA
New Jersey man accused of Pearl River house burglary, as cops hunt second suspect
Video: Burglary suspects sought in Pearl River
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These were sent to me by Legislator Doug Jobson, R- Stony Point. He is facing challenges tomorrow by Michael Diederich, a Democrat, and John Kezek, a Democrat running on the Working Families Party line.
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The Stony Point Democratic Committee this week elected John Brenner as committee chairman.
Former chairman John Kezek stepped down at the convention last month to run for county legislator representing District 1, challenging incumbent Douglas J. Jobson, a Republican.
During the meeting this week, the committee also nominated Luanne Konopko to run for Town Board seat, filling in Chris Jensen. Jensen was nominated to run for a Town Board seat at the convention but stepped down a week later because of a personal reason.
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