Kauneonga Lake, NY – Judge Bans Sabbath Sewer Talk

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    Kauneonga Lake, NY – The battle between some residents in the Kauneonga Lake Sewer District and the organization Kollel Avreichim took a new turn at the Bethel Town Board meeting. The meeting took place on a Saturday, which meant that members of Kollel would not be able to attend or speak into the microphone because they are members of the Hasidic community, and Saturday is their Sabbath.

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    Barry Kula, one of the residents who has been opposed to the expansion, had proposed giving a letter to the town board, along with a petition signed by 200 town residents, opposed to the expansion of the sewer district, which Kollel is seeking.

    Kollel took the matter to court, and Sullivan County Supreme Court Judge James Gilpatric issued an order prohibiting the town board from discussing the matter in any way, which also meant that they could not vote to accept and file Kula’s letter, as they do with all correspondence to the town.

    Now the board has three options: it can withdraw its approval of the expansion; it can put the matter to public referendum; or it can let the approval for the expansion stand.


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    kollelfaker
    kollelfaker
    12 years ago

    if i lived there i would be on the residents side we town is going to pay millions top get sewer and water to a tax free institution that contributes nothing to the community
    real estate taxes will rise to pay for this and additional costs to operate yearly

    benzion
    benzion
    12 years ago

    This is one of the things that I just simply do not understand. All year ’round the mountains are ghost towns. The few residents who live here make a good part of their livelihood off of the vacationers, and then they always are looking for ways to stab them in the back.

    12 years ago

    Sewer talk should be banned at all times, not just on Shabbos.

    Admitnothing
    Admitnothing
    12 years ago

    I see nothing wrong with having the govt pay for sewerage lines. Frum yidden pay hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes for which we receive nothing in return ie: school taxes. If not for the Yidden coming upstate, the mountains year round would look like Woodbourne in December ! There are plenty of developments and bungalow colonies that are not owned by congregations that do pay their fair share of local taxes. If a congregation legitimately owns a development, more power to them. When a development is owned by a Kehillah usually the costs are subsidized by the Kehillah which allows people who wouldn’t be able to go upstate for the summer for economic reasons to be able to go. Look at Chaddishe camps, Kehillah owned and operated and they cost a fraction of what for profit camps charge.