There in lies the problems. He has brought a lot of motions to the Board concerning the Youth Bureau and Americorps and has been shot down each time. I fear he is shot down simply out of spite and these denials are designed to discredit him politically, which seems to have worked.
I do agree however that he should be taking a stronger stance than he has been and needs to get some of these issues on the record for the public to see and hear. I believe he is serious and not at all disingenuous, he simply came into office with a lot of momentum very focused on getting things done. He has accepted that he is not in the majority with the rest of the Board Members and perhaps thinks raisinging these issues is a waste of time considering he has an entire town to run. But just because he isn't in the majority on the Town Board doesn't mean he isn't in the majority at Town Hall and in the pubic.