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REVIEW APRIL 23, 2025
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Let’s talk Altenheim now, say commissioners Commissioners chide mayor for lack of discussion
By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
A routine village council discussion about options for locating new water reservoirs led, on April 14, to frustrated council members pressuring Mayor Rory Hoskins to convene a meeting for a thorough conversation about the future of the village-owned Altenheim
property. After the village’s engineering firm, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, gave another presentation about site options for new water reservoirs, Maria Maxham, commissioner of accounts and finance, said she wants a public meeting to talk about what should happen to the Altenheim property. “I’m not opposed to locating the reservoirs
on the Altenheim,” Maxham told the Review. “I think it’s probably going to end up being the best decision, but I can’t support that until we have some sort of discussion as a group about what we’re doing and getting us all on the same page.” “It’s been a real struggle. In fact, to this point, it’s been impossible to make that happen,” Maxham said during commissioners’
comments at the end of the April 14 village council meeting. At the meeting, Maxham said that she requested through Village Administrator Rachell Entler and in text and email requests directly to Mayor Rory Hoskins that he put an item on the village council agenda to disSee ALTENHEIM on page 10
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