Increasing accessibility of public information about government of Monticello, seat of Sullivan County, garden of the Catskills.

Audio recordings of recent meetings of the Board of Trustees are freely available here at no cost to the taxpayers.

To listen, double click on the file extension of your choice: mp3 (commonly used on iPods), or wav (original). If unsure, click on mp3. Note that not all "Documents" pages have content available at this time (most do).

Regular meetings of the Board of Trustees are held on first and third Mondays at 7:00 p.m., in the upstairs Meeting Room at Village Hall, 2 Pleasant Street, Monticello, New York.

Rules of Procedure of the Village of Monticello Board of Trustees.

If the voices sounds choppy or broken up, try downloading the file to your hard drive and then open it.

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wav audio recording conclusion, after a 15-minute recess

Board vote, 3 to 2, to eliminate public safety requirements governing taxi medalians

wav audio recording main portion of the hearing

wav audio recording conclusion, after a 15-minute recess

Public hearing to eliminate public safety requirements governing taxi medalians

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wav audio recording conclusion, after a 15-minute recess

The hearing was chaired by Paul A Taxter III, Deputy Regional Director of the Mid-Hudson Regional Office of the Empire State Development Corporation; represented by legal counsel, Michael Davidoff, Esq. who chaired most of the hearing.

Monticello Kids' Gymnastics Club rescued from insurance shell game by "managers". Instructor Pedro Tweed stays; thanks to a tremendous outpouring of public support! Thank you.

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The first portion of the work session includes discussion with developer Thomas Ting about progress of the "Entertainment Village" which has been approved by the state RESTORE-NY funding.

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Before Executive Session the main portion of meeting.

After Executive Session starts with the Mayor screaming slanderous accusations at a Trustee, threatening to order the Attorney for the Village to sue her. Ends with a 3 to 2 vote to hire John LiGreci as Deputy Village Manager (Jenkins, Hutchins, Matthews voted "Yes". Marinello, Rue voted "No".)

Link to TH-R report.

wav audio recording before executive session for pending litigation

wav audio recording after executive session for pending litigation

The audio recording of the Regular Meeting of December 21, 2009 will be made available on the web after Mayor Jenkins' latest frivolous lawsuit paid for by the taxpayers of the Village of Monticello has been properly disposed of. (No, this is not his first!)

Minutes of the meeting will will be posted in the usual manner on the Village's website after they have been approved by the Board of Trustees. Minutes may also be obtained from the Village Clerk.

wav audio recording - Mayor intends to appoint a Village Clerk (to replace the last one he appointed, who presently faces 40 felony charges of grand larceny); then says he won't appoint anyone because Trustees questioned the position's salary.

wav audio recording discussing costs to Village of Monticello taxpayers of the frivolous and wasteful lawsuit filed by the Mayor against the other four members of the Board of Trustees and the Village Manager

wav audio recording discussing costs to Village of Monticello taxpayers of the frivolous and wasteful lawsuit filed by the Mayor against the other four members of the Board of Trustees and the Village Manager

wav audio recording and public statement by Trustee Carmen Rue regarding the recent 40-count felony criminal indictment of the Village Clerk.

wav audio recording work session on devising a new way to pay bills; authorization to investigate "wrongdoing in the Village of Monticello"

wav audio recording following the indictment of Village Clerk Edith Schop; see newspaper article "Monticello clerk faces 40 count indictment in case of double-dipping" and a copy of the Indictment for public information