Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

My understanding is that the appointment involved a contract.    There had to at least be an understanding of
a contractual relationship --- appointment for a term of years --- otherwise there would be no need to
compensate Mr. Surprise for ending the appointment before the term of years had ended.

Also -- for your information -- a contractual relationship can exist without a written document -- it can exist by
verbal agreement or, in this case, by virtue of the legal understanding that an Assessor is appointed by the
Town Board for a specific number of years (6).

Quoted from bumblethru

Well at least now perhaps ND & FDG can get their assessments lowered.
That is what they campaigned on....dumping Surprise and lowering 'their' taxes!
Step one......accomplished!
Now on to step two...........

Quoted from marymagdelene1234

Since you are so up on contractual agreements, written or otherwise, I suggest you may
want to take a few courses in contractual law before you speak, and don't bother to cut
and paste something from Legal Zoom to make yourself seem so smart.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I have taken law courses .. I have never been to Legal Zoom's website ... and you are just
a lonely, dried up witch who gets his/her thrills from attacking others personally ... get a life.

Quoted from marymagdelene1234

Really Ron?  If you only knew who I really am!

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Also -- for your information -- a contractual relationship can exist without a written document -- it can exist by
verbal agreement or...

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Editorial: No Surprise in Rotterdam
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Rotterdam Assessor Craig Surprise’s imminent departure is hardly shocking: Town Supervisor Frank DelGallo had vowed to “reform” the assessor’s office as part of his campaign for office last November and has a suit against the town over assessment hikes on two of his properties that Surprise was responsible for. And while DelGallo was entitled to make hay over the assessor as an election issue, he should have kept quiet and recused himself after he became supervisor when it came to dealing with and voting about Surprise.
DelGallo’s suit against the town and his role as the town’s chief executive present an obvious conflict of interest on issues that pertain to the person responsible for the suit. DelGallo didn’t fire Surprise, but he paved the way for getting rid of him by proposing a 50 percent pay cut in his 2011 budget. Then he had Deputy Supervisor Robert Godlewski privately negotiate a departure deal for Surprise, giving him nearly $13,000 in “sick leave, vacation leave and personal leave” (after working for the town for just three years!), and sprang it on an unsuspecting Town Board at the end of a four-hour meeting Nov. 10.
Board members Gerard Parisi and Nicola DiLeva voted against it, protesting that they knew too little about it, but it carried when Councilman Matt Martin and Godlewski joined DelGallo voting in favor.
The Rotterdam assessor’s office has been politicized in the past, of course. When outraged residents complained about their new assessments after the town’s first revaluation in more than 50 years, John Macejka Jr. was dumped by Republican Supervisor Steve Tommasone. Then Surprise came in, and he persuaded the Town Board to sue GAR Associates, the firm that performed the reval; but he also raised DelGallo’s assessments, setting the stage for his fall from grace.....................>>>>...................>>>>....................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2010/dec/02/1202_prrirnt/

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

my only additional comments on the matter --- too bad he wasn't sent packing on January 1, 2010
.. but then as the old saying goes  "good things come to those who wait"

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Milestones mark festivity of Mario Cuomo’s 1983 inauguration
December 21, 2010 at 5:22 pm by Mike Spain

The following story was published in the Times Union on Jan. 2, 1983, as part of the coverage the day earlier of the inauguration of Mario M. Cuomo as governor.

Beginning at 12:15 p.m., with Secretary of State Gail Shaffer presiding,

Quoted from bumblethru

Didn't Macejka work for Shaffer in some capacity back then?  

Quoted from marymagdelene1234

Really Ron?  If you only knew who I really am!