HAMMOND - While the Hammond Town Board tabled action on the proposed one-year wind moratorium, Robert G. and Kent Hollister provided plenty of it following a public hearing held Tuesday at Hammond Central School.
"Another illegal meeting," yelled Robert G., husband of former town supervisor, Janie G. Hollister, as he exited the gymnasium at the hearing's closure.
"You called the last board illegal, but this is another god**** illegal meeting," he said, brandishing a fist at another member of the public as he left.
Mr. Hollister's son, Kent, then joined his father in leaving, adding a middle finger to his profanity laced departure. Kent Hollister also challenged others in attendance to settle things outside.
The Hollisters felt the meeting was illegal because it had been advertised as a public hearing only, they said.
"Some people just don't understand that any public hearing is also a town board meeting," said Supervisor Ronald W. Bertram following the distasteful display by the Hollister men.
The proposed one-year moratorium was the topic as 21 citizens spoke before a crowd of about 75 to 100.
Only three speakers, including Robert Hollister, Mary Lu Sequin and Larry Sequin, spoke in opposition to the moratorium.
Mr. Hollister presented the board with a petition that he said had been signed by 176 citizens also opposed to the board-proposed moratorium.
"We're sick and tired of the games. We're sick and tired of the lies. And we're sick and tired of the CROHs. This is discrimination against the mass land owners in Hammond," Mr. Hollister said.
Eighteen other speakers, including Susan Wood, Sid Quarrier, David B. Duff, James Boyle, Valerie Johnson, Brooke Stark, Pamela Winchester, Mary D. Hamilton, Rosemary Demick, Howard W. Demick, Kathy Stevenson, Peter Mills, Thomas Chapman, Erica Demick, Del Hamilton, Jay Benton, Robert Pandina, and Mike Stock, voiced their support.
Mr. Bertram then read an additional 16 letters that had been sent to the board prior to the hearing, with 15 of those also being in support of the moratorium.
The supervisor also reported that a pile of form letters, in opposition to the moratorium, had been dropped on the town board's table as the public hearing began. Mr. Bertram said that unofficially, 146 signatures were contained within the letters in opposition.
Following the conclusion of the hearing and the antics from the Hollisters, four remaining members of the town board unanimously voted to table a vote on the wind moratorium until the next regular board meeting, which is to occur at 7:15 p.m. in the town hall on July 12.
"The actual vote will take place at that meeting," Mr. Bertram said.
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