August 30, 1998 Daytop Village declares ownership of County Home.
October 1998 Essex Community Heritage Organization - ECHO - executive director Robert Hammerslag mails Moratorium flier using ECHO mailing privilege, violating federal law. The Town of Essex hears a Moratorium that dies. Note Robert C. Glennon’s involvement as Special Council to Town of Essex.
October 12, 1998 Reporter Lorraine Lilja, formerly Littlefield, covered a pending meeting, Press-Republican.
November 5, 1998 7:05 pm: Town of Essex, holds a 5 minute board meeting, adjourned at 7:10 pm, called to elect Michael E. Pratt to fill a vacancy.
November 5, 1998 7:10 pm, Town Supervisor Wm. Drummond calls to order a Public Hearing on Local Law #2, drafted by private attorney Bob Glennon serving as Special Council to the Town of Essex. Retired as Executive Director of the APA, Mr. Glennon served the Town of Essex at the urging of Bob Hammerslag, executive director of ECHO; Bill Johnston, planning officer from The County of Essex, and Bill Finucane, Chair of the Planning Board, joined Glennon to lead the Board of the Town of Essex - see the record of speakers and names of those who attended. Glennon introduced his work product, “ Local Law #2-1998” The Moratorium. The floor was then opened for the strident by Bill Drummond, Supervisor, Town of Essex. 2.5 hours later, Drummond adjourned. Minutes cover all coherent speakers. Once the public departed, the legal notice of Local Law #2 was read to Town Board members in executive session: that meeting opened at 10 pm, closed at 10:02 pm. No record of this law or this meeting appears in Town of Essex records today. The record presented here has been removed in its entirety from the Town records, with no record of who took it. Robert Hammerslag now lives in the Philippines. Gary Randorf, founder of The Adirondack Council, rose to support the Moratorium, sat with Hammerslag, lives in the Philippines.
November 5, 1998 Division of Agriculture and Markets weighs in; Attorney Bob Glennon’s work product violates the Constitution of the State of New York.
Note: unbeknownst to the newest, returning Board member, unbeknowst to the Town Board itself, the Department of Agriculture and Markets in Albany told Mr. Glennon three weeks prior that the law he would propose was illegal under the laws of The State of New York, which fact I passed to the reddened face of Mr. Glennon, to a flustered Bill Johnston, and to the Board itself at the end of the public meeting - at which time I suggested Special Council Glennon not be paid for his services. In other words, Robert C. Glennon, Esq., represented the people and the Town of Essex without telling them what he knew. This is malpractice. Of course, the Town Board came to understand. Minutes of subsequent meetings are void of reference to the Moratorium. It was never discussed publicly again. Those directly affected by the Moratorium were not notified of its status. Bill Finucane resigned his position - perhaps, more than once.
Private attorney Robert C. Glennon, who had recently retired as a 21-year employee of the APA, submitted his professional invoice of a few thousand for his work and was not paid by The Town of Essex. Glennon works now for The State of New York again as Assistant Attorney General in the Plattsburgh office of Andrew Cuomo, AG, State of New York. This is Glennon’s second tour in government. Glennon is again advocating against farming and against the constitution of The State of New York. He made an appearance in LFFI vs. APA as Assistant AG Loretta Simon and he sought to judge shop in Clinton County, on behalf of the APA, see: Case 315-08.
Treatment Center operator Daytop Village of New York liquidated in Essex in 2000, selling The County Home to a moribund charity controlled by Eric Kilgren, a Kansas man who partners with James “Jamie” Phillips of The Eddy Foundation. These two manage tiny foundations that buy and sell land in Essex. We have not learned the origins of foundation assets or why these were created.
July 19, 2000 Daytop Village vacates Town of Essex and the region, not to return.
