Raymond Korny resigned from the Board of Health.
As of 10 am today August 18, 2010, Ray Korny is no longer a member of the Holland Board of Health.Ray Korny resigned because the Board of Selectmen refused to issue an exemption which would allow Ray Korny to run the brush dump while serving on the Board of Health. Such exemptions were issued in the past on a regular basis but James Wettlaufer as chairman of the Board of Selectmen refused to issue such an exemption in Ray Korny’s case.
According to Ray, Chairman James Wettlaufer, in a very unprofessional manner, called Korny a liar and an idiot during a phone conversation.
Ray Korny was seeking to be elected for the position of selectman during this years election and will run against James Wettlaufer who’s term will come up next year.
Peter Frei
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Posted on 18 Aug 2010, 13:49 by More of the sameRetribution
No elected or appointed official can hold more than one seat according to Massachusetts General Laws. The law is MGL chapter 268A section 20 and is designed to help prevent power consolidation and corruption.
However, officials in towns of less than 3500 people can grant themselves or others an exemption to the law once the selectmen determine there is no conflict in doing so.
Just the opposite happen hear as our officials exempt each other so that prying honest eyes can be excluded from overseeing the corruption running rampant in our town government.
Wettlaufer, Johnson. Petersen, Kristin LaPlante, Kennedy, and a few others all have granted themselves and each other such an exemption that allows them to circumvent state law and carry out their personal agenda's such as Johnson Landgate. Korny was first to be retaliated against because of his running against Wettlaufer's candidate. It is an all too familiar pattern in this town these past 10 years.
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Posted on 19 Aug 2010, 20:04 by More Info
Dual Offices
Can someone shed someone light onto what positions each of the above Town officials held at the same time? Just curious
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Posted on 19 Aug 2010, 22:09 by Multiple Offices
More Info
Earl Johnson held Planning Board , Selectman, Assessor all together.
James Wettlaufer ..Selectman, Conservation currently
Christian Peterson holds Selectman and Assessor positions..
Howard Fife holds School Committee, Conservation Commission
Kristin LaPlante Holds..executive Secretary, Town Clerk and Highway administrator.
This is a partial list... Family members of the above individuals also hols numerous town offices. Last Count was 4 people and their families held over 20 offices. Thats not counting the ones their friends hold. They have also taken over the Hamilton Reservoir Association.
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Posted on 19 Aug 2010, 24:37 by Dual Offices
Question
I was doing some reading and looking a little further into this the Brush Dump is run by the Board of Health, which Mr. Korny was a member of. Why would we wish to have someone be in charge of something and then have oversight of themselves? This seems highly unethical. Does anyone else agree?
It seems like there is no direct conflict in the above positions held like the situation Mr. Korny was proposing? Or am I misreading something?
I'm pretty sure though just looking at it that outside of maybe Earl Johnson no one reports to themselves.
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Posted on 20 Aug 2010, 8:09 by Peter Frei
Unethical? Give me a break..
To "Dual Offices," you wrote:
"Why would we wish to have someone be in charge of something and then have oversight of themselves? This seems highly unethical."
It seems odd that running the brush dump is looked at as a separate position and not as one of the many duties of the Board of Health, such as inspecting septic systems, or attending percolation tests. The question is also what "unethical conduct" could take place in the brush dump...
Is Ray going to take home some of the "prime brush" for himself? Is he going to treat his kin better than others by letting them dump the brush in a better place? Is he going to have his daughter buy some of the brush for her portfolio like Derric Talbot, the son of our tax collector Nancy Talbot, bought a buildable lot for $100?
Everybody with half a brain who watched the selectboard meeting last Tuesday and witnessed Wettlaufer's tirade realized that right now, Ray Korny seems to be Wettlaufer's "chosen one" and not James LaMountain for a change.
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Posted on 22 Aug 2010, 15:14 by Neutral like Switzerland
An Opportunity for Evil!
Ray Korny's resignation is a BAD thing! Like Mr. Frei, I believe that the brush dump is a natural extention of the Board of Health functions. There was no conflict over holding two positions there. All thinking people should ask what seems to me an obvious question.... So WHO does Wettlauffer want on the Board of Health? Maybe someone who can fudge a perc test for him so he or one of his corrupt friends (Johnson, Grossi) can build illegally? With Korny out, the conservation committee (the other committee Wettlaufer serves on) can look the other way, a person willing to fudge perc tests can be put on the Board of Health ( hey! Let's appoint Brian Johnson or Kristen LaPlante!) and when the building is all finished we can ask Mr. Petersen to UNDER assess it for us!! WOO HOO! If that is not a disengenuous abuse of power.... I don't know what is! By the way, I doubt that elderly housing project if it had passed the special vote would have had a valid perc test. Korny would not have fudged it through either.... Maybe that is the pidgeon hole project Wettlaufer is still going to try to push through.
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Posted on 22 Aug 2010, 18:04 by Snoopy
Brush dump money
Hey Peter if Korny is so good then why does he pay his wife from the brush dump when i have never seen this lady down there not ones hm lets look into this.Ya hes your friend so that wont happen
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Posted on 22 Aug 2010, 19:19 by Peter Frei
Korny my friend?
In all my life, I talked to Korny twice in person and three times on the phone. We also exchanged four emails. If that would make him a friend, I would have dozens of friends here in Holland; I don't!
Would that make him a friend according to your definition?
I would say that I hardly know Korny. Not that I have anything against him, I just do not consider anybody a friend with whom I talked a view times.
If I would strive to make many friends in town, I could not have this Blog. It is difficult to please everybody and it is one of the view things I never tried.
I think you do not have anything to say; what ever money Korny allegedly "paid" his wife is his business and I find it odd that you would even know or care.
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Posted on 25 Aug 2010, 13:25 by Dual Offices
weak arguments
So here's what I can see from the arguments above...because there are people who believe that the brush dump is a natural extention then he should be allowed to do both. Unfortunately, it's not, so he can't and he's acting like a child and blaming others for an issue he caused himself.
And let me get this straight no one understands why this is a conflict of interest. Please, your turning a blind eye then. It should be run by someone else. The Board of Health is supposed to INSPECT the brush dump to see that it is being run properly, not run it themselves. Just like the BOH is in attendance for PERC test not doing them, inspecting septic systems not pumping them out or installing them. No one understand that there is potential that he could illegally dump there and cover it up then we are clearly just playing favorites on this site and not even coming close to the truth like Mr. Frei has repeatedly said he is intersted in. This is why there is a system of check and balances set up to prevent this. By trying to circumvent this Korny put himself in the same category as the people that Mr. Frei constantly comments on.
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Posted on 25 Aug 2010, 14:48 by Peter Frei
checks and balances..
The reference to a "child" describing Ray's behavior makes me suspect that the first name of "Dual Offices" is Jim (or James).
What I gathered is that there are more than one key to the brush dump and that during the time the drainage basins along Mashapaug Road were constructed unallowed material was dumped at the brush dump. Ray Korny reported this to the selectboard and as I understand he voiced his suspicion that it was dumped by the Highway Department.
This report to the selectboard really put Ray on the radar and caused Wettlaufer to blow up during the last selectboard meeting of August 17.
Mr. Wettlaufer, checks and balances hhu? Insinuating Korny would dump illegally hhu?
As I wrote in an earlier comment, I do not have much to go by in reference to Raymond Korny; however, I have a complete picture what Wettlaufer is all about...
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Posted on 26 Aug 2010, 11:58 by Smells the RAT
Dual Offices is trying to mislead and misdirect
Oh here we go, Dual Orifices is more like it... but lets see what you said. You compared the TOWN Board of health running the TOWN brush dump... with... TOWN inspections of PRIVATE property and projects! Talk about obfuscating the issue.
..Nice try Dual Orifices. There is a big difference between TOWN Officials conducting TOWN business and TOWN officials "Inspecting" PRIVATE business.
The post of Dual Orifices is a classic example of a TOWN Official "Conducting" PRIVATE business..which is what the Johnsons, Wettlaufer, Talbot and others have been doing in the Town Hall this past decade.
What Mr. Korney did was to be an insider who realized he was being duped by lies. He had the courage and ethics to oppose the corrupt beast occupying our town Hall and this is how Wettlaufer retaliates. But it is so lame because Wettlaufer, Fife, Johnson, Peterson, and many others do hold multiple offices that are a conflict. I find it so distasteful to punish one for doing exactly what you allow yourself to do. Classic Sign of a Hypocrite.
Dual Orifices is trying to justify himself to other Town Officials who like Ray Korney are starting to see the Truth. Good Luck Holland...This Town has a long History of Overt Corruption.. These thugs in our Town hall are just carrying the legacy forward and depriving the Children of the inhabitants of Holland a Chance at ethical leadership in the 21st century.
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