Ruling upholds West Seneca downsizing timeline.

As of Jan. 1 the West Seneca Town Board will have only three members - two councilmen and the town supervisor -State Supreme Court Justice Donna M. Siwek ruled this afternoon.
In a dispute that could be considered by the state's higher courts later this month, Siwek upheld the town's contention that the June 3 vote that overwhelmingly backed a plan to downsize the board took effect immediately, putting off Town Board elections until 2011.
The judge gently chided the State Legislature for leaving the laws affecting such special-election cases for municipalities unchanged and not completely clear for the past seven decades.

In a victory for West Seneca Town Clerk Patricia DePasquale, the judge dismissed a lawsuit launched by Daniel T. Warren, a politically active West Seneca voter, and David Monolopolus, the only avowed candidate for the Town Board this year.




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