In this YouTube HD excerpt from the announcement period of tonight’s City Council meeting, Ward 7 City Councilor Eugene Tacy and Ward 6 City Councilor Marianne LaBarge express their dismay at an email exchange between City Council President David Narkewicz and Ward 3 Neighborhood Association President Gerald Budgar. Tacy calls for a special election for the position of City Council President. LaBarge calls on Budgar to apologize. Narkewicz responds to Tacy. This video is 5 minutes long. It originated with Northampton Community Television and was excerpted by Adam Cohen.
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Gazette: “Email reference strains relations on Northampton City Council” (3/3/11)
In his email, Narkewicz was responding to a query from Ward 3 Neighborhood Association President Gerald Budgar, who wanted to know what “MB and his crew” were complaining about regarding the city’s $700,000 purchase of watershed protection land in Whately…
In his email to Budgar, Narkewicz also attempts to explain why Ward 6 City Councilor Marianne L. LaBarge and Ward 7 City Councilor Eugene A. Tacy voted against appropriating the money for the land in Whately, writing that “Gene and Marianne fancy themselves as land development experts and disagree with the land appraisal used to determine the purchase price.”