{"id":5609,"date":"2012-03-01T08:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2012-03-01T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:37:18","slug":"morning-read-a-revolving-door-in-saranac-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/01\/morning-read-a-revolving-door-in-saranac-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: A revolving door in Saranac Lake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Knight has a piece in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>, detailing plans by the Saranac Lake village board to appoint one of their own out-going members, John McEneany, to a paid position with the village fire department.<\/p>\n

[Village Mayor Clyde] Rabideau acknowleged that some village residents might raise questions about the board appointing one of its members to a village job, but he said McEneany “went through the normal channels.”<\/p>\n

“I understand people will say, ‘Well, what’s going on?’ but he applied for the position,” Rabideau said. “I think he was the only local person to apply. I think he’s a good, solid candidate and will be a very dedicated and solid fire truck driver.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Complicating this story is the fact that in his role as trustee, McEneany played a prominent role in negotiating with the local fire squad. Knight also details the fact that McEneany’s business is in financial difficulties<\/p>\n

Knight goes on to note that this kind of decision isn’t unique in the community.<\/p>\n

Two months after he lost his re-election bid to McEneany in 2002, [current village manager John] Sweeney was appointed village manager. He held the post until 2007, when he resigned after he wasn’t reappointed by then-Mayor Tom Michael, only to be rehired as manager by the current board in April 2010.<\/p>\n

In April 2001, then-mayor and current trustee Tom Catillaz appointed Paul Herrmann as village attorney, just days after Herrmann lost his re-election bid for a third term on the board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think?\u00a0 Is this just the natural flow of hiring, volunteering and politicking in a small town — the sort of thing that goes on all over the North Country?\u00a0 Or does it raise alarms?<\/p>\n

(Disclosure note:\u00a0 My wife, Susan Waters, was a village trustee in Saranac Lake until 2010 and served on the board with McEneany.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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