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Cheektowaga board orders audit of highway spending but deadlocks on personnel sanction
Summary
The Town Board found the highway superintendent acted outside the 2025 highway agreement and directed an immediate review and halt to unauthorized projects; a related resolution that would have placed the superintendent on formal notice and preserved the board’s right to pursue recovery failed in a 3–3 vote.
Supervisor Brian Nowak said the board had reviewed the 2025 February highway agreement and concluded the highway superintendent "approved or initiated expenditures, work orders, or highway projects not authorized in the 2025 agreement" and therefore directed the town supervisor and finance staff to review all highway fund accounts and halt further unauthorized expenditures.
The board debated two linked resolutions. Council member Vinzkowski, a sponsor, described three streets where micropaving work had been done without prior authorization and said the town needed to close the policy gap so the board could approve amendments before work begins. Council member Pularski pushed back, saying the…
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