One Question
By Regina Connell
Bloomingdale Resident
 
Dear Editor:
 
I have a letter from the Sunday, March 7 Suburban Trends from Jonathan Dunleavy and I just can’t get one question out of my mind. WHY would Mr. Peter Gonzales go through the time and effort to file a protest petition with the borough clerk regarding the Spring Brook Acres issue, only to seek out Jonathan Dunleavy, have a conversation with him in the middle of the planning board meeting the same night, and inform him that he “should not be concerned about the impact of the development of Spring Brook Acres on the classification of the Morse Lakes Dam…because the development will have no impact on the dam.”
 
Was this comment from Mr. Gonzales, which comes 18 months after Councilman Dunleavy originally recused himself and only hours after he filed the protest petition, the trigger that made Councilman Dunleavy decide to unrecuse himself. Am I to believe that Mr. Gonzales was unaware of the fact that Councilman Dunleavy’s vote would provide the two-thirds necessary to override the protest? Something seems to be terribly amiss here. Councilman Dunleavy, could it be your honesty?