Monroe's Garbage Crisis Takes Farcical Turn

Just a short update on the garbage situation and how your elected officials here in Monroe, New York, are handling it.

1. I’ve already laid out for you Monroe Supervisor Tony Cardone’s asinine (and potentially illegal) liaison assignments.

According to documents reviewed by The Monroe Gazette, the 2024 Liaison for the Monroe Village Board is Councilwoman Dorey Houle.

You may remember Acting Town Supervisor Dorey Houle from such recent hits as “Pretending To Have Fought Against The Rye Hill Road Development Despite Pushing For It.”

(More on that soon.)

The Liaison assignment is important to note, because according to Supervisor Cardone, only Councilwoman Houle can interact with the Village of Monroe Board on town-related matters.

Was Councilwoman Houle present at last night’s Village Board meeting to discuss the garbage situation?

No.

But, weirdly …

Supervisor Tony Cardone was at the meeting.

He just wasn’t there to discuss the garbage problem.

Have You No Sense of Decency?

2. Which … Like, I get that the liaison thing is a farce and Supervisor Cardone is using it to limit the ability of the other council members, but it’s comical that he’s not even following his own rules.

This is what happens when local news vanishes and you’re left with people just writing up what’s happening at these board meetings with zero context.

During last night’s village board meeting, Supervisor Cardone is called on by Councilwoman Behringer at 45:51. So for 45 minutes, Supervisor Cardone is present at the Village Board meeting.

After discussing the Somni relocation with the board, Cardone leaves at 47:50.

I can’t stress this enough:

The dude sat there for 45 minutes to address one point, not related at all to the garbage crisis, and then left.

And he left when his appointed liaison, Dorey Houle, was not present at all for this meeting.

The Village Board, just three minutes later, began discussing the garbage issue again.

Trustee John Karl even points out that Cardone left, before being able to potentially answer his questions and others by the Village Board concerning the garbage.

You mean to tell me, without his appointed liaison present, that the Supervisor couldn’t have stuck around for the rest of the meeting to participate in a public discussion concerning the garbage crisis?

And, if you’re of the belief that the Supervisor is a busy guy, that he couldn’t have stuck around for at least five minutes?

Had he done so, that would have made him present to participate in discussion concerning the garbage issue.

Now, listen: I know the Mayor and the Supervisor have had, and will continue to have, discussions concerning the garbage in private. But those discussions are not happening publicly, or in a forum that allows for the public to participate in.

And the public is getting very upset.

But here’s the kicker …

If you watch this Village Board meeting, toward the end, Mayor Dwyer discusses his meeting with Marangi and Supervisor Cardone.

Dwyer states that he finally got copy of the Marangi contract.

The mayor then said, “There are questions that remain.”

This may result in a letter drafted by the Village attorney, which will come at the expense of Village taxpayers.

And that letter will simply ask questions that Supervisor Cardone could have helped provide the answers to had he stuck around.