Joanne Pace
1. Freedom Of Information Compliance And Knowledge Ratings:
Under Review – So Far The Highly Compensated Pound Ridge Clerk Joanne Pace Has Failed To Respond To Four FOI Request We Sent. Most Of The Other Town Clerks In Westchester County Have Responded.
And it appears that we have to soon appeal to the New York State Department’s Committee On open government concern Ms. Pace’s failure to respond to our requests to the town clerk’s office.
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/
There appears to be a problem with Ms. Pace meeting deadlines and complying with New York State Laws.
In the past, Pound Ridge had control of most election chores. Not anymore. When asked by the county in January, Pound Ridge clerk JoAnne Pace refused to give the county its keys to its lever voting machines.
Under a law created by New York State, Westchester County has control of the elections in 2006 and beyond.
The Pound Ridge government’s act of defiance ended when Pound Ridge received a letter from the county in March that said “despite numerous requests, the board [board of elections] has not received your municipality’s voting machine keys.”
Reginald A. LaFayette, the commissioner of the board of elections, wrote that he “regretted” that if Town Clerk Jo anne Pace did not comply with the request for keys and unless the keys could be inventoried, the county would notify the New York State Board of Elections that the town did not comply with state law.
The county further wrote that “we will be unable to certify your voting machines for the upcoming 2006 elections.”
Joanne Pace, immediately drove the keys down to the Westchester County offices in White Plains.
Ms. Pace was also unresponsive when the League Of Women Voters sent her a questionaire for the 2015 voter’s guide.
From The Voter’s Guide….
TOWN CLERK – POUND RIDGE Term:
4 years; Salary: $71,415
Joanne Pace
Questions: – no response –
2. Email Address For Filing FOI Requests
jpace@townofpoundridge.com
3, Mailing Address For Filing FOI Requests
179 Westchester Avenue
Pound Ridge, NY 10576
4. Experience:
Pound Ridge Clerk Joanne Pace did not respond to a request to provide a biographical statement to this project to measure how well Town Clerks respond to and comply with New York State’s Freedom Of Information Laws. Compliance With The law and transparancy appear not to be a priority with Ms. Pace.
5. From The Clerk’s Town Website:
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Filming application can be picked up at Town Clerk’s office or downloaded from the on-line link under Town Clerk Key Topics.
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The Town Clerk is the Records Access Officer.
If you wish access to a particular record, you may complete the Freedom of Information request form and send it to:
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The town’s refuse licensing law requires that anyone collecting refuse obtain a license which is valid for a period of one year.
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It is unlawful for any person or company to peddle or solicit within the Town of Pound Ridge without obtaining a valid license as provided in the Town Code.
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7. Notes
This Ratings Page Has Been Updated With Additional Information
About Pound Ridge, New York
Pound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 5,104 at the 2010 census.
The town is located in the eastern corner of the county, bordered by New Canaan, Connecticut, to the east,Stamford, Connecticut, to the south, Bedford, New York, to the west and Lewisboro, New York, to the north.
In the early seventeenth century Pound Ridge was inhabited by Native Americans who spoke the Munsee language[ and were members of the Wappinger Confederacy. The geographical boundaries of the tribes within the Confederacy are unclear. Pound Ridge has been variously listed as within the territory of the Kitchawong,Siwanoy and Tankiteke tribes. These claims are not necessarily exclusive as tribal boundaries were not fixed and the land used by different tribes was often interlaced or shared. Interaction with Europeans caused Indians to change their settlement locations over time. Furthermore, the territories listed in sales to Europeans by particular tribal chiefs are not strict guides to the boundaries of tribal control or occupancy. The Siwanoy are generally agreed to have lived along the north Long Island Sound Coast with a maximum range extending from Hell Gate to Norwalk, Connecticut. The Tankiteke appear to have occupied eastern Westchester County and Fairfield County. The territory of the Kitchawong is thought to have extended from the Croton River to Anthony’s Nose along the Hudson and some distance east from the river.
The Wappinger Confederacy participated in Kieft’s War which began in 1640 as a result of escalating tensions over land use, livestock control, trade and taxation between the Dutch West India Company colony of New Netherlandand neighboring native peoples. In March 1644 a Wappinger Confederacy village in present-day Pound Ridge was attacked by a mixed force of 130 Dutch and English soldiers under the command of Captain John Underhill. This event is now known as the Pound Ridge Massacre. The attackers surrounded and burnt the village in a night attack killing between 500 to 700 Indians. The dead included 25 members of the Wappinger tribe, with the remainder being either Tankiteke or Siwanoy or both. The New Netherland force lost one man killed and fifteen wounded. More casualties were suffered in this attack than in any other single incident in the war. Shortly after the battle four Wappinger Confederacy sachems arrived in the English settlement of Stamford to sue for peace.
The territory of modern Pound Ridge was first permanently settled by Europeans in 1718 in the present-day Long Ridge Road area. Long Ridge Road was originally an Indian path and had been used by the first settlers of Bedford, New York as they traveled to that destination from Stamford. Although the very first settlers were from Huntington on Long Island, most of the original settlers of Pound Ridge were from Stamford. A large portion of Pound Ridge was included in the town of North Castle when it was incorporated in 1721.
Three thousand acres in the northern part of present-day Pound Ridge were included within the more than 86,000 acre Cortlandt Manor grant which extended from the Hudson River in the west twenty miles east to the Connecticut border. A member of the historically prominent Lockwood family first purchased land in Pound Ridge in 1737 and several members of the family settled in the town within the next six years. The Scofield family first settled in the area in 1745 and the first Fancher settled in the area in 1758. Roads in the modern town bear the name of each of these families.The first record of the term “Old Pound Ridge” to refer to the present-day town’s territory is found in the North Castle records from 1737. “Old Pound Ridge” begins to appear in Stamford records in 1750. The name “Old Pound Ridge” is thought to have originated from the presence of an Indian game pound on a hill within the territory when the settlers first arrived.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_Ridge,_New_York
