Letters

I find it necessary to clarify, in The Southampton Press, some obvious confusion and suspicious distortion with respect to how the village operates and pays its bills.

At each Board of Trustees meeting, the first resolution for a vote is to approve all the invoices on the warrants, which are payments from the village to its vendors and suppliers for goods and services. Each trustee is a designated liaison to our village departments and signs off to authorize the payments (in order for them to appear as warrants).

Of course, the village enters contracts for those goods and services with our vendors and suppliers. The authority to enter those contracts is by vote on resolutions by the Board of Trustees.

At the July 22 board meeting, Trustee Rob Coburn asked a question about the payment of $17,404 for ICC Community Development Solutions. As it turns out, the company is known by its more familiar name, “Municity.” I am the liaison for the Building Department, which uses Municity’s services.

The Board of Trustees had approved the contract with ICC/Municity at the board meeting on May 8 by a unanimous vote. I signed the purchase order for the payment, which was questioned, and I did not, at that moment, recall that ICC and Municity are the same company.

I hope this clarifies the confusion and distortion that seems to have arisen from these facts.

Len Zinnanti

Trustee and Deputy Mayor

Southampton Village