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    Highway Department Dianne Benchcowski

    So after watching WIVB last night starring Frank Max im kinda curious as to what Councilwoman Benchcowski will now do with Mark Wegner? I could not believe my ears that Mark Wegner admitted to letting his employees take home town equipment for their own personal use? Hopefully Dianne will now go to the Fed's about Mark Wegner and his Deputy and request a formal investigation into the "admitted" inappropriate use of taxpayer/towned owned equipment by him and his employess!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cheektowaga View Post
    So after watching WIVB last night starring Frank Max im kinda curious as to what Councilwoman Benchcowski will now do with Mark Wegner? I could not believe my ears that Mark Wegner admitted to letting his employees take home town equipment for their own personal use? Hopefully Dianne will now go to the Fed's about Mark Wegner and his Deputy and request a formal investigation into the "admitted" inappropriate use of taxpayer/towned owned equipment by him and his employess!
    I'm sure there are enough anti-Wegner people inn the Town who can do that if they please to do so.

    Diane doesn't need to do so to justify turning in Max. And her failure to do so doesn't change the facts about Max. Either he did or he didn't cheat the taxpayer. That determination needs to be made based on the evidence, not the motive of the one blowing the whistle.

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    What equipment was taken home?

    Was this equipment used on town time or on personal time. I'm not a fan with equipment being used on the side but I don't think that cost us property/business owners money as does padding one's hours or doing non-town work on town time.

    I believe Angela wanted to pass a resolution that a party chairman can not work for us. Time to put that up for a vote again. There should be no problem getting a responsible board member to second it. Same goes at the county level. I wonder if Ted Morton could get the ball rolling on that.

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    Are you kidding me res you don't think it cost the taxpayers ??? What about the wear and tear on the equipment. How if the equipment breaks when the employee is using for a purpose which it's not intended for?? How if the employee gets hurt while using town equipment outside of work ???? What about the workers using sick time to go to fundraisers ....sick time really that's what that's intended for I'm sure cuz it happens all the time at my work lol

    I think you have personal vendetta against max and you think fish fry mark can't do nothing wrong

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    I have room agree with go bills the town is liable for that equipment if something happens where someone gets hurt or property damage us tax payers have to pay. Let's see of Dianne gets her head out of fish fries mark butt and investigates this.

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    "lending out" town equipment for personal use by employees (or town residents for that matter) exposes the town to potential liability for bizillions of dollars. Imagine if a town employee using a town backhoe strikes a gas line causing and explosion, killing several people and leveling several homes. Ya think the town employees homeowner's policy is going to be enough to satisfy the claimants?

    Moreover, and employee is in no better standing to use town equipment than a taxpayer. what if I wanted to borrow some equipment for the weekend? how would I go about getting permission for that?

    And since when is sick time available for personal use days? I realize it is difficult to police the misuse of sick time, but when the head of the department is personally aware that an employee is mis-using sick time, it is time for some heads to roll rather than heads to be turned the other way.

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    I agree but fish fry mark and Dianne see no problem with this

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    Kaminsky admitted on camera that he knew about the problem with Max but he did nothing. He saw no problem with it. Why isn't Kaminsky being held accountable for sitting on this information?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Go bills 427 View Post
    Are you kidding me res you don't think it cost the taxpayers ??? What about the wear and tear on the equipment. How if the equipment breaks when the employee is using for a purpose which it's not intended for?? How if the employee gets hurt while using town equipment outside of work ???? What about the workers using sick time to go to fundraisers ....sick time really that's what that's intended for I'm sure cuz it happens all the time at my work lol

    I think you have personal vendetta against max and you think fish fry mark can't do nothing wrong
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    I have room agree with go bills the town is liable for that equipment if something happens where someone gets hurt or property damage us tax payers have to pay. Let's see of Dianne gets her head out of fish fries mark butt and investigates this.

    I have been told it was a chain saw and our town Bobcat.

    I agree about wear and tear. I agree with nogods about liability issues.

    I am not defending this action and I'm going to assume this practice will not happen in the future.

    Sick time should be used for sick time and personal days can be used for what ever an employee wants.

    I don't know Frank so this isn't personal. I also don't play favorites. I believe Mark is running against Frank to be town Democratic Chairman. If possible I think this is the time to have Angela put up the resolution that states no party chairman can work for us and Diane can second it to get the ball rolling. Mark needs to decide what he wants to be. Our Town Highway Supervisor which he is paid rather well to do or a bar owner/party chairman.

    In the end these are two different situations. You can not justify one issue by pointing out the other.

    Notice when Frank was making a statement on the news he wasn't saying it didn't happen? He was stating it is a political hit. Who cares why it was done. Should have been done years ago. Our town should be ran with the best interest of the property/business owners not the politically connected families/friends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbird View Post
    I agree but fish fry mark and Dianne see no problem with this
    Jbird? Before you go flapping your wings do you know for a fact that Diane knew there was an instant of town equipment being used by a town employee? I'm assuming Mark would have known if the equipment was from the highway department.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SabreTooth View Post
    Kaminsky admitted on camera that he knew about the problem with Max but he did nothing. He saw no problem with it. Why isn't Kaminsky being held accountable for sitting on this information?
    Kaminsky said at a town board meeting last year that he personally reviewed the calls to sanitation and didn't see anything wrong, and if anyone had a problem they could talk to him. This blowhard has to go also

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    Quote Originally Posted by SabreTooth View Post
    Kaminsky admitted on camera that he knew about the problem with Max but he did nothing. He saw no problem with it. Why isn't Kaminsky being held accountable for sitting on this information?
    This is what you get when you take an endorsement from the Cheektowaga Democratic Party. Too many of the same people year after year who all become friends. When this happens it start to breed nepotism. The calls that were political in nature were in the best interest of Jerry and crew. Wouldn't you all agree?

    Jerry didn't see a problem with it because he wasn't taking property/business owners best interest into consideration.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Roman View Post
    Kaminsky said at a town board meeting last year that he personally reviewed the calls to sanitation and didn't see anything wrong, and if anyone had a problem they could talk to him. This blowhard has to go also
    If we all remember there is a thread with examples during work time of these calls.

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    MISUSE OF TOWN RESOURCES
    Town officers and employees shall not use Town letterhead, personnel, equipment, vehicles,
    supplies or any other Town resources for a non-governmental purpose, nor engage in personal or
    private activities during times when he or she is required to work for the Town of Cheektowaga.[/QUOTE]



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    Boy you can tell this is election time. Bringing up the same crap over and over agian.

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    See wny you say your looking out for the tax payers but it sounds like your trying to get people to forget that mark admitted on TV that he has been lending out town own stuff like a ABC hardware store may be you should worry about stuff that has been admitted I did not know you were on the phone for all this phone calls and know what was talked about

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