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Dunkirk Democratic Party chairman Ned Divine says incumbent First Ward Councilman Don Williams Jr.’s “actions over the last three years” led to him losing the endorsement in the city.
In a news release issued Sunday night, Divine responded to an article last week in the OBSERVER in which Williams said if he “fallen in line with the mayor” Wilfred Rosas, he would have received the nod.
“I wasn’t elected to serve the mayor … I was elected to serve the residents of the city of Dunkirk and I feel that’s what I’ve done,” Williams said.
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The Dunkirk Common Council voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve the increases of both garbage pickup and sewer rates in the city of Dunkirk effective immediately. Missing from the vote was First Ward Councilman Don Williams, the biggest advocate against the fee increases.
“I voted against these because I wanted to kill these without a public hearing,” Williams told the OBSERVER following the Jan. 5 meeting. “Voting against them shows that I’m both not in favor in any way of them as well as keeping them from moving forward to the public hearing stage. I have been against the tipping fee and sewage rate increases since the beginning and have mentioned it many times at the budget meetings, I don’t think that it’s fair to single individuals and seniors living in a house that don’t produce a lot of trash or use a lot of water; I don’t feel we should penalize them. Until the city comes up with something more fair I will remain against this.”
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Local laws to raise the tipping fee by $52 annually per household and the sewage fee by a 25 cents per thousand gallons used in the city of Dunkirk were tabled pending a public hearing at the Common Council meeting held Tuesday.
In a 3-1 vote for both municipal laws, the council elected to hear the public at the next council meeting Jan. 19 at 5:20 p.m. The single vote of opposition belonged to First Ward Councilman Don Williams who has been adamant against the raises of both fees in the city.
“I voted against these because I wanted to kill these without a public hearing,” Williams told the OBSERVER following the meeting. “Voting against them shows that I’m both not in favor in any way of them as well as keeping them from moving forward to the public hearing stage.”