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Resident rebuts trustee's social-media post, defends decades of truck-enforcement efforts
Summary
During public comment at the Village of Manhattan meeting, resident Mike Naughton disputed statements attributed to Trustee Justin Young about prior administrations' handling of truck enforcement, saying previous boards and mayors actively pursued safety measures.
Resident Mike Naughton used the public-comment period to dispute assertions he said came from a recent social-media post by Trustee Justin Young that suggested previous village leaders allowed truck traffic to pass unchecked.
"This is not something new," Naughton said, describing truck enforcement and other safety measures as long-standing priorities. He told the board he had pushed for increased truck enforcement for more than 20 years and said the village previously arranged to use weight scales from other municipalities and had agreements with the state and with Crawford Gaines Crawford Grain Scales in Wilton Center before the village could purchase its own equipment.
Naughton also said proposals to increase officers in local schools had been planned years before Young took office and cautioned against attributing all of the village's public-safety work to the current trustees and mayor. "Don't throw them under the bus," he told the board, adding that previous mayors and dozens of trustees had worked on safety efforts.
The remarks occurred during the meeting's public-comment period; the board did not take formal action in response to the comments during the session.
The topic was presented as a rebuttal to material Naughton said originated from Trustee Justin Young's Facebook post; the transcript records Young as a trustee but does not record a response from Young during the public-comment segment.
