Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says the county is moving to fix a problem with its industrial development agency’s board…which apparently wasn’t properly sworn in.
13 WHAM first reported this week that only one of the COMIDA board members had filed the legally required “oath of office” with the Monroe County Clerk. State law says all elected and appointed government officials have to file paperwork proving they were legally sworn in within 30 days of taking office. Only Chair Ann Burr among the current board members ever did. Legal experts said technically COMIDA doesn’t have a legally constituted board, and any of the dozens of economic development deals approved by the COMIDA board over the last two years could be challenged in court.
But the County Executive says the finding doesn’t invalidate any of the board’s votes over the past year. She says this is a purely administerial problem.
A key point of Cheryl Dinolfo’s “State of the County” message this week was a reorganization of COMIDA into “Imagine Monroe.”