Mr. Floatie creator and Hen Island agitator Ray Tartaglione is back to his old antics.
In the wake of a recent court decision, Targatlione is preparing a new "public awareness" campaign to "encourage" Rye city to address health situations on Hen Island. Tartaglione seems to be saving the come back of Mr. Floatie, an 8-foot turd, for a future occasion. But his new campaign will also carry a fetid stink.
"Our message will be viewable from a 20 foot long mobile rolling billboard pulled by the Floatie Mobile Van with its traditional toilet still mounted on the roof. Our first ad of the campaign will feature six members of the Rye City Council seated on commodes in front of the Rye City Hall," said Tartaglione in an email.
A seventh council member - Joe Sack - will not be featured in the billboard because Tartaglione says Sack is willing to have a public discussion about his group's complaints.
Tartaglione expects the new stinky billboard to be complete and swirling around town in the next 1-2 weeks.
i'd read sack's letter in rye review if i were you. seemed pretty balanced. including you getting a reasoned response on why rye not enforcing law. i still have no idea if any laws were broken to begin with. dude, i'd read the tea leaves if i were u. just sayin'
Posted by: Peyton Place | February 24, 2011 at 07:02 PM
If laws weren’t really laws they’d be, I guess, like laws in the City of Rye - which as Captain Jack Sparrow might tell you are less like laws and more like guidelines.
Now our neighbor Harrison here has had its fair share of governmental “controversies” over the decades and some have involved patronage jobbery’s of the first order. But unlike with some of those prior bad acts, the current batch of Harrison elected officials apparently see’s their laws not in variegated shades of grey but in simple black and white.
How refreshing this would be in our town – bad acts and actors get identified and addressed publically as and when they are discovered regardless of political connection or consequence.
http://www.lohud.com/article/201102181520/news02/102180381
Investigation anyone?
Posted by: tedc | February 24, 2011 at 01:12 PM
you dismiss dealing with the county in one sentence with no reasoning behind it. you need to go in that direction for a solution assuming there is an issue(s) to begin with. else ur going to go round and round and chew up resouces is my guess.
Posted by: Peyton Place | February 22, 2011 at 07:50 AM
Payton Place,
Unfortunately the County has the same discretionary enforcement protection as the City of Rye. Basically that means if they don’t want to enforce the law (that means any law even murder) they don’t have to and there is nothing we can do about it. Our only recourse to these politicians that refuse to enforce the law is to expose their actions to the general public so they do not get re-elected. That is what our past (Mr. Floatie) campaign was all about. As you can see, it wiped out the entire Otis slate in the past election. People may not want to speak out about sewage and health issues in public due to the uncomfortable nature of the topic but they do speak when they are in the voting booth. We are hoping our second campaign (One of the first lessons we teach our children is where to put their effluents. Why has the Rye City council not learned that lesson?) will be more effective than the first one. Both campaigns create public awareness and they do it quick. Taking the County to court is not an option at this point. This problem is in Rye’s back yard and Rye should be the one to correct it if the County does not. I would assume that the entire council should be furious that this issue has been around so long. But then again, you know what happens when you assume.
Posted by: Ray Tartaglione | February 21, 2011 at 02:55 PM
work with county or sue 'em.
Posted by: Peyton Place | February 21, 2011 at 06:59 AM
Ray, thanks for clarifying that.
Posted by: Average Citizen | February 20, 2011 at 11:23 PM
VOR,
The propane issues along with all the illegal electrical issues are solved. In 2009 the City of Rye issued violations which required the Islanders to remove any unused or stored propane tanks. Almost 10,000 pounds of propane was removed after the city issued the violations. The only tanks allowed on the Island are now required to be connected and secured to the homes. Just like all the homes that never had electrical inspections, it was a very simple fix requiring minor repairs on some life threatening issues. It only took place because the city enforced their building and safety codes that were never before enforced on Hen Island.
PP,
My seasonal neighbors, don’t give a hoot about the environment, The Long Island Sound or the health and safety of the community. They pollute Milton Harbor on the weekends and go to their homes elsewhere during the week. And the Rye City Council allows this to happen year after year. The Hen Island attitude is, “We have been doing this for 60 years why should we stop now. We have been using these systems and they are grandfathered in” What they don’t understand is you cannot grandfather in an “illegal use”.
BTW, there is no current lawsuit. In the last recent lawsuit HEALtheHARBOR.com vs. The City of Rye, the Supreme Court ruled that the Rye City laws are valid and the City Council has the authority and discretion to enforce their sewage code below.
Rye City code 161-1
“Where a public sanitary sewer is not accessible, a building permit shall not be issued without submission of a copy of the written approval of the Westchester County Commissioner of Health, indicating that the premises may be adequately sewered by a separate sewage disposal system. The further approval of the Common Council of the City of Rye is required for such separate disposal systems. In addition thereto there shall be an annual inspection of all private sewage disposal systems by a contractor duly approved by the Westchester County Commissioner of Health on all properties bordering on all watercourses, including Long Island Sound, Milton Harbor and all tributaries thereto, and wherever else directed by the Sanitation Committee of the Common Council. A written certificate of such inspection shall be submitted to said Committee for such action thereon as it may direct.”
Mayor French and the entire City Council prefer to allow an entire community in one of Rye’s most environmentally sensitive area’s to pollute the water with sewage. How would you feel if every municipality along the Sound did that?
AC,
Yes I did. Now your next question might be why do I violate the law? It is very simple. I don’t violate the law, the corporation does and I am trying to stop it. I don’t own the property or the land. I don’t have the authority to drill a well. I only hold a license agreement which allows me to keep a house on the Island. These are permits and approvals that can only be applied for and issued to the corporate owners of the Island. I am only a stockholder but believe me if I could, I would and so would a few others responsible homeowners on the Island.
Posted by: Ray Tartaglione | February 20, 2011 at 11:04 PM
Ray, did you actually mean to write this: "A few of us do have sealed tanks but even those; violate local, state and federal codes."
Posted by: Average Citizen | February 20, 2011 at 05:56 PM
work with ur seasonal neighbors, work with the county or sue 'em and 86 the current lawsuit. good luck
Posted by: Peyton Place | February 20, 2011 at 05:37 PM
So, I guess the tidal pools have nothing to do with any mosquito infestation, correct?
Now on to my other question. Do you have a solution to the propane storage issue ?
Posted by: voice of reason | February 20, 2011 at 01:12 PM