09/01/2026
Hage and Hage charge outrageous prices why are they still the Village Attorneys?
Podcast November 10th 2025: Please listen starting at around 28 minutes. You will hear "Turin Confidentiality Team" working 7 days a week. Jk Hage is on team (not as village attorney) as an electrical consultant and Neil Collins of Utility Services.
Look up expenses for Ilion municipal power. You will see approx $61,000 for legal and you will see monies for Utility Services.
Look up NYISO applications for power. 100MW in June 2025 and 400MW in late August 2025.
Look up Ilion Minutes August 2025 and you will see village board goes into executive session for electrical contracts. Few days later... Turin request for 400MW of power.
Look up DEC Brownfield Application for Turin/Remington property originally went in late 2025 and had to be revised. Accepted in February 2026.
Dave Murray asked for a moratorium on 1st day in office and JK Hage and leftover board did not act.
Why did JK Hage wait so long to advise the Village that codes and zoning should be updated?
Why is Dan Sheffield suggesting that Village hold public hearing with Turin BEFORE moratorium hearing and not AFTER?
Would discussions with Turin before moratorium give credence to Turin to sue Ilion for bad faith if updates of codes basically makes it impossible for 400 MW facility? Or is it just a way to delay until NYISO gives feasibility and costs to see if it's even a viable plan?
Stephens talks about doing everything right in this podcast. How many of you feel that doing the right thing would have been revising codes and zoning for a large electric and possibly water user before anyone signed a confidential agreement?
A simple revision of any large consumer of power or water would need a special use permit and meet standards decided based on specific needs of the proposed use.
A revision requesting a deposit to cover legal, engineering and study costs before ANY discussions would occur or application for a permit could be received that would pay for any necessary legal, environmental or engineering to pay for services and studies necessary.
Can the little Village of Ilion afford to be spending residents hard earned monies on any of this?
If this developer doesn't have the monies to do a project of this magnitude then why are we allowing state and federal grant monies, low interest bond loans, fee waivers and local tax dollars of a economically disadvantaged village?
In a candid episode of the Small Town Life podcast, Village of Ilio...
