KIRYAS JOEL – The village administrator of Kiryas Joel says the
community does not want to continue its efforts to expand and provide
sufficient infrastructure for its residents by fighting in the courts.
“Hopefully the day will come that we should be able to provide the
vital municipal services to our residents without the need for court intervention,
and to end the vicious cycle of litigation in all directions, we wish,”
Gedalye Szegedin wrote in a March 23 email to Middletown Mayor Joseph
DeStefano and copied to county officials.
In that same note concerning Kiryas Joel’s lawsuit against Orange
County and Middletown over the county’s signing over Indigot Creek
water rights to the city, Szegedin informed DeStefano that the village
was going to stop its lawsuit.
He told the mayor that the county had “recently finally released
– after much delay – all the necessary permits to complete
our vital water pipeline project, and we are now in the position to put
our critical water project to use soon.”
Szegedin said a “separate case for damages caused by the county
delays will be filed against the county soon.”
