Eastchester Town Clerk Linda Laird
1. Freedom Of Information Compliance And Knowledge Ratings
FAILED – Eastchester Town Clerk Linda (Doherty) Laird has not provided the public documents we requested, while most Westchester County Town Clerks have been able to respond to and grant us access to the same public records request test that we gave Ms. Laird in a matter of hours or a few days.
Ms. Laird seems not to understand the towns legal obligations under New York State’s Freedom of Information laws and often violates those statutes.
Sadly, Ms Laird was so clueless that she could not even locate or provide public documents for the salery, benefit and pension costs that Eastchester taxpayers are paying for her own elected position.
Ms. Laird also seems to be a very poor records manager and stated she needed 20 days to find a public document that listed the compensation for her elected position.
Town taxpayer complain that there is a lack of transparency in Eastchester and often cite the clerk’s office as a big part of the problem.
2. Email Address For Filing FOI Requests
| ldoherty@eastchester.org |
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3, Mailing Address For Filing FOI Requests
Town Clerk
40 Mill Road
Eastchester, NY 10709
4. Experience:
The very unresponsive Linda Laird also did not respond to our request for a short biographical paragraph.
Ms. Laird also did not respond to the 2015 League Of Women Voters Guide for voters. Here is Ms. Laird’s listing in the LWV Voting Guide from last year….
TOWN CLERK – EASTCHESTER
Linda Doherty Laird
Questions: – no response –
5. From The Town Website:
The Town Clerk’s Office is the gateway to government and the hub of the Town’s administrative system. It is often the initial source of information about the Town, serving residents and visitors in person at the office, over the telephone and on the Town’s web site.
Role of the Town Clerk:
* Maintain Town Board Mintues
* Process Freedom of Information Law Requests
* Issue Marriage License
* Maintain and issue copies of Marriage Record, and death records
* Issue Handicapped Parking Permits
* Issue Dog Licenses. Click here for an application.
*Fishing and Hunting Licenses
* Issue Tag Sale Permits
* Due to a reduction in staff, the Town Clerk’s Office will limit the issuance of Marriage Licenses to Eastchester, Bronxville and Tuckahoe residents: Monday- Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Non-residents may make a Marriage License appointment during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday only. Due to employee work schedules and the volume of work in renewing Garth Road Parking Permits, there will be no non-resident appointments made May 23th – July 8th.
As a service to Eastchester, Bronxville and Tuckahoe residents only, the Town Clerk will officiate Marriage Ceremonies at Town Hall during regular business hours. Please call for an appointment.
Issue Garth Road Parking Permits
Garth Road residents, merchants and visitors can obtain an application from the Town Clerk’s Office. Completed application must be returned with required documentation (driver’s license, vehicle registration, proof of residence and/or employment on Garth Road, letter from resident for visitor). No permits issued to anyone with outstanding tickets. There is no fee. Permits are valid July 1st to June 30th of the following year and must be renewed every year. Overnight guests and service personnel should be encouraged to use one of the 114 non-permit spaces located on the southerly part of Grayrock, along Essex and on Garth Road near the play park. A map of these permit-free zones is available from the Town Clerk’s office. You may also call the Eastchester Police Department (961-3464) to have your short term visitor placed on an exempt list, giving the desk officer all the pertinent information: year and make of car, license plate number and location of vehicle. This call must be placed daily. Full-time employees may apply for a Merchant Permit. Part-time employees and frequent visitors may apply for a Visitor Parking Permit, but only if they must park on Garth Road on weekdays between 7 and 9:00 a.m. on a regular basis.
Resident Application – Merchant Application – Visitor Application
6. Media Reports / Relate Pages
HERE IS ONE REASON WHY YOUR TAXES ARE SO HIGH IN The TOWN OF EASTCHESTER
Eastchester Supervisor Colavita Fails To Collect Fines And Hides Losses From Voters
It is the Eastchester Supervisor Anthony S. Colavita and his board have the responsibility to develop appropriate policies to defi ne how to determine parking ticket collectability and when to deem parking tickets uncollectible and remove them from the records.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s auditors say unpaid parking tickets expected to be available to help finance Town activities should be reported as receivables at year end, but remaining unpaid for several years should be deemed uncollectible and removed from the accounting records.
Despite the high collection rate, the Court still has over a million in cumulative unpaid parking tickets outstanding. This included thousands unpaid parking tickets totaling hundreds of thousands that have been outstanding for more than five years.
The amount of unpaid parking tickets continues to rise and the New York State Auditors said…..
“Without established benchmarks and relevant policies and procedures, there is an increased risk that parking tickets will not be properly accounted for or appropriately processed. Further, by not recording such revenues as receivables based on realistic expectations of collection, Town offi cials do not have these moneys available for budgeting purposes.”
Eastchester Supervisor Anthony Colavita and the others incompetent’s in Eastchester’s Privileged Political Class of has written off over a million dollars in fines that the single Family homeowners had to make up.
There are only about 10,000 Households In Eastchester.
If Colavita and his board had done a better job of making sure fines were collected then there could have been tax savings for Eastchester’s taxpayers.
The Town is governed by an elected five-member Town Board including the Town Supervisor Colivita. The Board is the legislative body responsible for overseeing the operations, finances, and overall management of the Town, including the activities of the Town Justice Court.
The Court is administered by two elected Justices, Janet Madonia-Calano and Frederick J. Salanitro who are assisted by two Court clerks.
Pictured Are: Glenn Bellitto, Joseph Dooley, Eastchester Town Clerk Linda Doherty Laird, Town Supervisor Anthony Colavita, Town Justice Janet Calano, Domenick Porco, Receiver of Taxes Rocco Cacciola and Westchester County Legislator #SheilaMarcotte
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First Bloomberg Wanted To Ban Large Soda’s Now Colivia Tells You What To Eat…..
THE NANNY STATE IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY: Heavy Handed Eastchester Dictator Anthony Colivita Bans ‘Fast Casual’ Restaurants
COLIVITA: “Go Get Your Sandwich in Larchmont”
The Dear Leader Eastchester Supervisor Anthony Colivita and his little band of idiots on the town board town board have banned “fast casual” family dining restaurants like Panera, Cosi, and Quiznos.
Changes to the zoning code of the Westchester County town will prohibit any restaurant with more than 15 locations nationwide from setting up shop.
Buying your child a happy meal at McDonald’s was already prohibited under town laws, but chains like Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts who already have locations in Eastchester will be grandfathered in under the anti-free market communities totalitarian rules.
Speaking with The Journal News, the delusional Town Supervisor Anthony Colavita, sounded like Michele Obama as he explained the decision was a reaction to a new threat to the Eastchester dining scene: “Hybrid” fast food restaurants with “milliard decor.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/01/eastchester_bans_fast_casual_chains.html
What in the world did this bureaucratic fool just say?
But is a Panera really all that terrifying? Yes, Colavita says in an interview with Fox 5 News:
“You can go get your sandwich in Larchmont. We aren’t going to cheapen the town with fast food or these formula fast-quick casual places.”, said the nearly senile town supervisor.
An “unscientific” poll conducted by the Eastchester Daily Voice suggests that roughly 30% of residents think the decision “is a mistake by the authoritarian town supervisor.
Some residents have graver concerns. “I think its unconstitutional,” one resident told News 12 Westchester, while another expressed deeper-seated fears of her local government saying, “I think they want to start policing everything we do.”
Maybe someone should tell the very strange acting Colivita that the nearest that if started taking his meds he might realize that the Panera is in Scarsdale.
The real funny thing is that Eastchester isn’t really upscale at all, while Larchmont and Scarsdale are.
But in Eastchester you are not allowed to hang out, sip their Quad Venti Mochas, grab an asiago bagel at Panera.
Most residents are just praying that Ayatollah Colivita doesn’t become a vegetarian and ban meat in the town.
Most Eastchester single family homeowners think Anthony Colivita and the zoning boards are out of control. Taxpayers often complain that there is a lack of accountability and transparency in the town.
Many residents complain that it is difficult to get public documents from the secretive and temperamental Eastchester Town Clerk Linda (Doherty) Laird
Many long time Eastchester residents and seniors have moved away, because of the foolish attitudes of the Colivita administration, as well as, all the “rules” and regulations and on and bickering.
Eastchester has changed for the worse on Eastchester Supervisor Anthony Colivita’s watch – it really is a time for a change.
But the sad fact is that most people in Eastchester know that this is how business is done in the Corrupt Colivita Administration. The high scale eateries want to limit the competition from the chain stores so they grease some palms in town hall to get them banned.
This stinks of protectionism and seems unconstitutional, but who cares if Anthony Colivita is made happy.
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Meet The Eastchester Marriage Officer From Hell…..
THE KNOT: Eastchester Town Clerk – Linda Laird
11/18/2014 Carissa D
I’m writing this review to warn other couples. We chose to have a quick marriage ceremony done at the town court. We were not expecting anything fancy or complicated, just a civil ceremony with a small group of close friends and family followed by lunch at a local restaurant.
We made an appointment a month before our wedding when we got our marriage license. The town clerk, Linda Laird, was to do the ceremony at noon on a Friday.
We planned to arrive there at 11:45. The court is only a few minutes from my house and we expected the ceremony to take no more than ten minutes.
On the way there, a family member got lost (due to the parkway being closed) and we had to make a slight detour to help her get there. We pulled arrived at exactly 12:02pm, literally two minutes late, and were told that it wasn’t happening.
We had two friends who had arrived at the court earlier and who were there when the clerk walked out at noon.
They tried to convince her to wait for us since at that point we were right around the corner, but she refused, saying “Twelve o’clock means twelve o’clock.” We were fortunate enough that Mount Vernon was able to perform the ceremony last minute, but it almost didn’t happen.
I cannot believe how poorly we were treated when all we were asking for was a 5 minute ceremony which we had arranged weeks in advance. If she was so busy that performing our ceremony literally two minutes late would have thrown off her entire schedule (on a Friday afternoon…) she should not have offered to do the ceremony in the first place.
All we wanted was something simple and they managed to make a complete disaster out of it.
If you’re looking to do a civil ceremony and live in this area, stay away from Eastchester!
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LinkedIn
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7. Notes
This Ratings Page Has Been Updated With Additional Information
About Eastchester, New York
Eastchester is a town in southern Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 32,363 at the 2010 census. There are two villages within the town: Bronxville and Tuckahoe.The town contains a census-designated placealso named Eastchester.
The town that is now called Eastchester began settlement in 1664 when ten families migrated from Fairfield, Connecticut.Thomas Pell, who at that time also owned the territory that is now New Rochelle and Pelham, granted a deed to the group to “settle down at Hutchinsons’,” where the home of Anne Hutchinson had stood some twenty years before. The ten original families were shortly joined by another 26.
Laws for the region were established the following year, in 1665, under an agreement called the “Eastchester Covenant”. The covenant was a rare document for this period. It contained 26 provisions, including such items as education of children, disposition and upkeep of property, and support of a minister.
Confirmation of their 1664 land patent was granted by Governor Richard Nicolls in 1666 after the occupation of the area by the English.
A controversy arose in 1700 when the settlers signed a deed with the Native Americans. The tract of land involved was known as “Long Reach” because of its odd geographical makeup. The sites included are the present Bronxville, Tuckahoe, and a section of northwest Mount Vernon. The dispute over the ownership of the land involved the towns of New Rochelle, Westchester and the Pell family. When a decision was reached in favor of Eastchester, England’s Queen Anne granted a second patent in 1708…..
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