Lakewood Village Hall
LAKEWOOD – The Jamestown Post-Journal says the mayor of Lakewood is denying that she instructed the Chautauqua Lake Association to conduct water tests for herbicide use off the village shores of Chautauqua Lake in June.
During Monday night’s village board meeting, Mayor Cara Birrittieri responded to accusations from two village board members in August that she was responsible for the $853 charge.
The alleged spending was brought to light two weeks ago in a letter to the village clerk by trustees Ellen Barnes and Randall Holcomb after Barnes said CLA Executive Director Douglas Conroe said Birrittieri ordered the tests.
Birrittieri expressed her confusion as to why Conroe would say that. Conroe declined to comment when reached by The Post-Journal after the trustees’ meeting.
She also called the accusations against her “absurd” and demanded that she receive apologies from Barnes and Holcomb.
Following the discussion the board voted 3 to 2 in favor of paying the charge to the CLA.
The testing that was done by the CLA came back negative.
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