How a Procedurally Defective Special Meeting Tried — and Failed — to Reshape Niagara Falls in 48 Hours. The meeting happened 21 hours and 21 minutes before it was legally permitted to be held and continued after a formal objection was filed with the City Clerk.
By: John Karcz
Investigative Reporter
Let me be clear about who I am, because it matters to what you are about to read.
I am a City of Niagara Falls employee. I work for this city. That makes me a member of United Steelworkers Local 9436 — the same union whose members were directly on the line at the meeting you are about to read about. I am not an outside agitator. I am not a political operative. I am not a hired gun brought in by anybody’s campaign or anybody’s lawyers. I am a city worker.…