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In a 3-2 vote, Fredonia Village Board members narrowly approved the water contract with the town of Pomfret.
During discussion of the controversial issue, there was an urgency by some of the trustees to agree to the contract because the town was tiring of the wait, which may have led Pomfret to move its supplier to the North County Water District.
Fredonia Trustee James Lynden was the most outspoken on this issue. “The contracts were not even negotiated,” he said. “Roger Britz (Fredonia trustee) and I were part of the water negotiations and how it ended up at this point I don’t know. In my opinion it wasn’t ready to come out of any kind of committee. The other contracts that are being presented are not even a realistic request. They represent great loss in revenues to the village.”