2 FOIL requests are pending before the Village of Delhi - as to the public bidding regarding the fire-damaged building on Main Street, and as to enforceability of the Village taxes

It has been recently reported by the local Delaware County (NY) press that Tom Little, the Village of Delhi code enforcement officer, made a claim that (1) a decision to take down the building on Main Street that has recently suffered from fire was made by the Village Board, and (2) that the notice soliciting bids for a public-bidding contract to take down the building "went out a while ago".

In view of that, I filed a FOIL request today with the Village of Delhi seeking documents to verify how the notice went and how the bidding goes.

I will publish the Village of Delhi's responses to the FOIL.

I also demanded the Village of Delhi to comply with my FOIL request for documents indicating enforcement against people who do not pay village taxes that the Mayor of the Village of Delhi personally promised will start happening at a September 2014 public meeting that I have a sound recording of, including the mayor's pledge.

My interest in the Village of Delhi's enforcement actions against delinquent taxpayers that the mayor promised back in September of 2014 is not idle.  I am one of diligent taxpayers who is taken advantage of by taxpayers who adamantly do not pay taxes, and the Village of Delhi lamented that there is no legal mechanism of enforcement against non-payers of Village taxes.

At this "historic" public meeting, the mayor of the Village of Delhi said, again, back in September of 2014, that the Village of Delhi will try to file a "test" case against a non-payer of taxes and see how it goes in court.

All I asked for is to see whether the Village of Delhi DID file that test case, or whether it continues to not enforce its taxes.

If there is no legal mechanism to enforce non-payment of taxes for the Village of Delhi, there is no reason why the rest of us, diligent taxpayers, should pay Village of Delhi taxes at all, while the non-payers have the benefit of Village services given to them without any payment, at our expense.

I will publish responses of the Village of Delhi on this blog.

Stay tuned.