WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - It was an unprecedented conversation at Monday night’s Watertown city council meeting as a discussion about electrical work at the Thompson Park Golf Course grew heated.
The city’s interim lawyer questioned whether a city council member was on the city’s side or that of the course’s former owner.
The debate began as the city discussed a resolution to pay Blackstone Electric $54,000 in electrical work at the newly purchased course.
The city bought it from developer Mike Lundy for $3.4 million.
The $54,000 dollars is more than anticipated, part of that due to what the city’s lawyer, manager, and mayor characterized as necessary to get it in working order or up to code.
The discussion spiraled into a debate over the return of the large golf ball sign taken from the course by Lundy.
Council member Cliff Olney took issue with the recent demand letters sent to Lundy’s legal team by interim city lawyer Todd Bullard.
“I was under the impression there was going to be two sentences, ‘Can we have our ball back? It has been decided the city wants it,’ not all of these things that ended up being three pages in length,” Olney said, “which, to me, I thought was very inflammatory, personally.”
“I will say this,” Bullard said. “I’d like to stop you right there. I have to stop you right there.”
“Let me finish because I’m talking right now,” Olney said. “You work for me, not the other way around.”
“Stop with that,” Mayor Jeff Smith said. “He works for the...
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