Camille DiSalvo failed to provide a requested photo for the FOIL Westchester Public Information Project, Which Seeks To Measure How Well Village Clerks Follow New York State’s Freedom Of Information Laws.
1. Freedom Of Information Compliance And Knowledge Ratings:
Under Review
2. Email Address For Filing FOI Requests
3, Mailing Address For Filing FOI Requests
Village Clerk
65 Main Street
Tuckahoe, NY 10707
4. Experience:
Camille DiSalvo failed to provide a requested biographical paragraph for the FOIL Westchester Public Information Project, Which Seeks To Measure How Well Village Clerks Follow New York State’s Freedom Of Information Laws.
On the Internet We Found:
Deputy Village Clerk
Village of Tuckahoe
– 2014?
Village Clerk
Village of Tuckahoe
– Present
FIND THE DATA: Camille DiSalvo Salaries
2013 – $66,506
http://state-employees.findthedata.com/d/a/Camille-DiSalvo
5. From The Village Website:
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Camille DiSalvo | Village Clerk |
| Jackie Ferretti | Deputy Clerk |
6. Media Reports / Related Pages
DAILY VOICE: Several Appointments To Be Made In Tuckahoe
Several Tuckahoe officials will be sworn into office on Monday at the first Board of Trustees meeting of the month.
Incumbent Mayor Steve Ecklond and Trustees Thomas Giordano and Greg Luisi will take an oath of office, being sworn in for two-year terms by Judge David Fuller, Jr.
In addition to the board members, there will be a series of appointments made for village positions. Susan Ciamarra will be appointed as the village clerk, with Camille DiSalvo serving as her deputy village clerk.
Todd Huttunen will be named the village assessor, and John Cavallaro will continue as the village attorney, each serving one-year terms. Anne Marie Ciaramella will serve as the chairperson for the planning board, with Ron Gallo assuming the same position on the zoning board of appeals…..
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JOURNAL NEWS: Tuckahoe reorganizes
Tuckahoe’s annual reorganizational meeting was held April 5, beginning with the swearing-in of the three men voted into office last month.
Steven Ecklond and Stephen J. Quigley were sworn in a village trustees for two-year terms; David O. Fuller Jr. was sworn in a village justice for four years.
Michael O’Toole was appointed acting village justice for a year;
Ecklond was appointed deputy mayor.
Susan Ciamarra was appointed both receiver of taxes and registrar of vital statistics for the next year; Camille Di Salvo was appointed deputy clerk and registrar of vital statistics for the next year; Richard O’Donnell was appointed village assessor for a year; John Cavallaro was appointed village attorney and Gary Gjertsen deputy village attorney for a year. Dr. Salimbene was appointed village physician for a year…..
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http://reviewpress.lohudblogs.com/2010/04/12/tuckahoe-reorganizes/
TRANSPARANCY PROBLEM: It Has Often Ben Difficult For Tuckahoe Taxpayers To Hold The Privillaged Political Class Accountable And Get Budget Iinformation
Hon. Susan Ciamarra
Village Clerk
Village of Tuckahoe
65 Main Street
Tuckahoe, NY 10707
The staff of the Committee on Open Government is authorized to issue advisory opinions. The ensuing staff advisory opinion is based solely upon the information presented in your correspondence.
Dear Ms. Ciamarra:
I have received your letter of March 29 in which you sought an advisory opinion relating to the Freedom of Information Law.
As I understand the matter, a State audit report and the Village’s tentative budget were made public at open, televised meetings of the Board of Trustees, and it has been contended that a request for those records need not be made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law. In addition, you wrote that the individual “also complained that 25 [cents] per copy is too costly and that copies of the information should be made available at no charge to the taxpayer.
In this regard, I offer the following comments.
First, the Freedom of Information Law includes all agency records within its coverage, including those that were made public at the meeting, and §89(3) of the Law states in part that an agency may require that a request be made in writing. Therefore, while an agency may accept an oral request, I believe that it may in most instances require a written request.
I note that §5-508 of the Village Law pertains specifically to the process of adopting a budget. As you are aware, a hearing must be held on the tentative budget, and subdivision (3) of §5-508 states in part that: “The notice of hearing shall state the time when and place where such public hearing will be held, the purpose thereof and that a copy of the tentative budget is available at the office of the village clerk where it may be inspected by any interested person during office hours” (emphasis added). Based on that provision, I do not believe that a written request should be needed to inspect the tentative budget, because the right to inspect is clearly conferred by the Village Law; however, a village could in my opinion require that a written request be made if a photocopy of the tentative budget is requested, for §5-508 makes no specific reference to copies. Similarly, §35 of the General Municipal Law states that an audit report prepared by the Office of the State Comptroller “shall be a public record open to inspection by any interested person.” It would seem that the procedures ordinarily used regarding the Freedom of Information Law need not be employed when a request is made to inspect an audit; again, however, a written request may be required if a copy is sought.
The foregoing is not intended to suggest that written requests must be demanded, for it is clear that the records in question must be made available. On the contrary, an agency may accept and respond to oral requests, particularly when records are readily retrievable and unquestionably public.
Second, with respect to fees for copies, §87(1)(b)(iii) of the Freedom of Information Law states that an agency’s rules and regulations must include reference to:
“the fees for copies of records which shall not exceed twenty-five cents per photocopy not in excess of nine inches by fourteen inches, or the actual cost of reproducing any other record, except when a different fee is otherwise prescribed by statute.”
Based upon the foregoing, unless a different statute authorizes other fees, the first clause of the provision quoted above provides that an agency may charge up to twenty-five cents per photocopy for records up to nine by fourteen inches. Whether the actual cost of photocopying is more or less than twenty-five cents, an agency is clearly authorized to establish and charge a fee of up to twenty-five cents per photocopy. I point out, however, that no fee may be charged for the inspection of records accessible under the Law.
I hope that I have been of some assistance.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Freeman
Executive Director
http://docs.dos.ny.gov/coog/ftext/f8816.htm
Guardian Fights Back, Going After Municipalities That Violate First Amendment
Several weeks ago The Westchester Guardian, through its parent corporation, The Guardian News, Inc., began to file civil actions against numerous villages, towns, and cities throughout Westchester County, charging each with various acts, including, but not limited to, their adoption, interpretation, and enforcement of local code provisions governing “Newsracks” on public property in violation of The Guardian’s rights as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. At this point ten such federal complaints have been filed, the first of which was commenced on April 7, against the Village of Tuckahoe, and several individuals involved in the administration of that village government….
http://westchesterguardian.blogspot.com/2008/01/may-31-2007-westchester-guardian_21.html
7. Notes
This Ratings Page Has Been Updated With Additional Information
About Tuckahoe, New York
Tuckahoe is a village in the town of Eastchester in Westchester County, New York, United States. One-and-a-half miles long and three-fourths of a mile wide, with the Bronx River serving as its western boundary, the Village of Tuckahoe is approximately sixteen miles north of midtown Manhattan in Southern Westchester County. As of the 2010 census, the village’s population was 6,486.
The village can be reached by the Metro-North railroad system. The Tuckahoe and Crestwood stations are 32 minutes and 34 minutes from New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, respectively.
The name “Tuckahoe”, meaning “it is globular”, was a general term used by the Native Americans of the region when describing various bulbous roots which were used as food. Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, Tuckahoe was a rural, minor community which was part of the larger town of East Chester. It wasn’t until the early nineteenth century that Tuckahoe first became a semi-prominent part of the New York Metropolitan Area upon the discovery of vast, high-quality, white marble deposits near the Bronx River by Scottish businessman Alexander Masterson. Through the use of his financial wealth and influence, Masterson jump-started Tuckahoe’s marble industry, opening the first marble quarry in 1812. The extremely high quality of “Tuckahoe Marble” was in great demand, quickly transforming the once quiet village into the “marble capital of the world”. In the 1840s, to serve quarry owners who transported marble to the city, the New York and Harlem Railroad opened two train depots in Tuckahoe. The booming industry drew succeeding waves of German, Irish and Italian immigrant workers, and, after the Civil War, African-Americans who migrated from the South. The Tuckahoe quarries produced heavily for almost a century before supplies dwindled and the industry shut down.
In the 1920s Burroughs Wellcome (now part of GlaxoSmithKline) established research and manufacturing facilities on Scarsdale Road on land acquired from the Hodgman Rubber Company, and for many years was a leading industry in Tuckahoe until the company moved to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina in 1971. The Nobel Prize winning scientists Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings worked there and invented drugs still used many years later, such as mercaptopurine……
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckahoe_(village),_New_York