At the July 8th Village Board meeting, Trustee Niznik spoke on behalf of the entire Board and explicitly acknowledged that withholding information from the public was wrong: “…we will release a statement to you. You expressed your concerns last time, you didn’t have information from us, that was a very valid concern. We are going...
Make no mistake about it —the newly released June 2026 New York State Comptroller’s Follow-Up Review for the Village of Wappingers Falls is a total indictment of our current village board. It is officially titled “BOARD OVERSIGHT,” but a more accurate title would be “TOTAL LACK OF OVERSIGHT”. Out of 13 critical financial recommendations issued by the...
The Wappingers Falls Paper Trail is Empty—And It’s Costing You Most of us don’t spend our Wednesday nights sitting in village board meetings. We have jobs, families, and lives. We just expect our taxes to be fair, our roads to be paved, and the water to run when we turn on the tap. But right...
The Village Board is attempting a permanent power grab by dissolving our independent Water Board. Make no mistake: this has absolutely nothing to do with improving efficiency. This is a desperate, short-sighted money grab designed to plug massive holes in a general budget built on guesswork and fiscal incompetence. The Comptroller’s Warning: Severe Mismanagement Don’t...
Money in our village’s utility funds is meant for one thing: maintaining and operating our water and sewer systems. Keeping a healthy surplus in these funds is vital for emergency repairs and infrastructure stability. Yet, in October 2025, the Village Board quietly transferred over $500,000 from the water and sewer funds into the general fund....
All past budgets, the response to the 2023 state audit, and the 2023 Corrective Action Plan have been removed from the village website. The timing couldn’t be more suspicious. Just two weeks ago (on June 5), the New York State Comptroller released a scathing follow-up report concluding that of 13 critical financial recommendations made back...
OP-ED: Is the Village Hall Financial Chaos by Design? When you connect the pieces of the New York State Comptroller’s June 2026 follow-up audit, a chilling picture emerges. This isn’t just a story of lazy bookkeeping or a difficult software transition. When a village board leaves a multi-million-dollar accounting system in total disarray for three...
When a village board borrows money, it isn’t a blank check to spend as they please.. In December 2019, the Village of Wappingers Falls took out a $350,000 loan ( a Bond Anticipation Note) that was legally restricted and explicitly earmarked for one single purpose: repairing the village dam. But the Village Board never even...
The level of fiscal mismanagement and disregard for your hard-earned tax dollars is truly appalling. The Mayor did not review debt payments, failed to maintain required transfer paperwork, and could not locate his physical signature stamp—which was being manually stamped onto massive transfers without his documented consent. When the state tried to call and email...