Solvay, NY -- Solvay’s full-time clerk is no longer employed by the village. The village board didn’t reappoint Clerk Ellen Colelli when it met Tuesday night.
Mayor Kathleen A. Marinelli and village trustees went into executive session at the end of the regular board meeting. Colelli said she was later called into the closed-door meeting, and the mayor told her she would not be reappointed.
Colelli said she is still waiting to learn why. “When I asked why, the village attorney interrupted and said that is all they are going to say,” Colelli wrote in an email.
Marinelli didn’t return phone calls Wednesday and Thursday seeking comment. Village attorney Kevin Gilligan could not be reached for comment. Messages left at the village hall also were not returned. And there was no information available on the village website because it is “being updated.”
Colelli was appointed to the four-year position in 2009, the same year Marinelli was elected mayor. The village board subsequently voted to change the length of the village clerk’s term to two years.
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