Assuming all village residents look at Facebook, Village President David Stavropoulos bypassed the typical mass communication avenue–email–to announce Village Adminstrator Justyn Miller‘s resignation.

Here’s the Facebook message:

I can’t help but wonder whatt he “extremely difficult environment” to which the Village Presidnet refers.

He mentions “complicated audit and accounting issues.”

Could that refer to the obfuscation of RedTail Golf Club financing?

My concern all along has been that we Lakewood homeowners don’t get stuck a second time with property tax hikes to pay for a mononic decision by a village board.

For our home, we paid an extra $500 a year for about 15 of the 20 year to pay off the alternative bonds.

Alternative bonds were to be paid back from golf course revenue…unless that income stream was insufficient, which it certainly was.

That resulted in taxpaying homeowners being forced to pay the difference.

Finally, look at the supposed reason for the current Village Administrator’s departure:

It’s the Trustees’ fault, the Village President seems to say.

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