The Penn Yan Village Board for the second time in 3 years have given away Village Parklands. The Mayor informed the Village Board members at the March Village Board meeting that he received a email from the State's Park Historic and Preservation Grant office, the emailed stated that Parkland laws were not followed when the Village swapped parkland with 3 local companies therefore the 9 deeds filed are invalid. The survey map that was filed with the County's Clerks office appears to show that some of the parcels traded to the Village are Parklands that the Village already owns.

WOW what a surprise still doing things the good old boys way.

The State Parks office also claimed the survey map that the village attorney filed with county clerks office contained a false deed that was altered and put on the survey, the village was ordered to do a new survey last September at a cost of $17,000. Why hasn't the local paper run a story on this and why hasn't anyone been charged with filing false documents?

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Click on and read about how the village board got caught trying to give away Village Parkland.

Once again the Penn Yan Board has violated laws in a attempt to give Parkland away to friends, the letter from the state claims the village has violate tax laws, alienation requirements such as 2 appraisals for each parcel traded to prove equal market and recreation value in the same locale. The village must also write and adopt a Home Rule Law and then the State Legislature and the Attorney General and the Governor must approve the law, the Village failed to follow these laws and requirements and doing so several Public Officers altered and filed a false deed on the survey and then filed them with the County Clerk that is now under investigation by the New York State Police. What the hell were they thinking?

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Click on here, The Birkett Mills property is inside the green lines but the survey that the Village had done was altered and a false deed was added then filed at the Yates County Clerk's Office.

Village Outlet Trail Property

Click on and see the property inside the green lines that are part of the Village's Outlet Trail Parkland, note the back of Carey's Rental and the Metal silos and truck scales built by Birkett Mills that are built on Village Parkland, someone has some explaining to do.

What was or is the village attorney doing during all this monkey business? Seems like he would be getting paid to ensure that village officials don't do stupid things that could result in legal issues and cost the village taxpayers more money? Oh, silly me, what am I thinking? Duh, if there are legal issues for the village to deal with, he gets more work thrown at him, more work = more pay.