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Resident raises safety and billing questions at Village of Manhattan public comments
Summary
Paula Gibbs, a local plumber, urged the board to note potential safety disparities between St. Joseph’s School (required to have sprinklers) and public school trailers that lack sprinklers; she also asked about a $43,000 dewatering bill and several solar-permit charges.
Paula Gibbs, a Manhattan resident and local 130 plumber, used the meeting’s public-comment period to raise safety concerns and ask for clarification about bills listed on the village bills list.
Gibbs said she had followed the previous meeting’s discussion about St. Joseph’s and wanted to record a public concern that public school trailers — which she said house some Manhattan students — lack sprinkler systems while St. Joseph’s Catholic School is being required to install sprinklers. “These are our Manhattan kids,” Gibbs…
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