Marcinkevage Answers Poorman

LOCK HAVEN – The City of Lock Haven has not historically responded to written requests for information from longtime city critic Stephen Poorman but Monday night city manager Rich Marcinkevage did.

Marcinkevage went through Poorman’s recent “demand for release of public information” point by point during Monday’s brief meeting.

The city manager offered his responses to Poorman’s series of seven questions and took offense when Poorman asked what the city administration framework would be “upon the retirement” of Marcinkevage. The city manager said, “I don’t see my retirement as imminent but apparently he does.”

After Marcinkevage’s report, Mayor Rick Vilello asked of the letter writer, “Is that the same Steve Poorman that is the speed bump in the CVS project?”

Vilello was referencing the long-stalled effort to sell two abutting properties along Bellefonte Avenue so a developer can locate a new chain drugstore there. Poorman is a defendant in litigation pending in Clinton County Court on the land sale.

A hearing in one of the two civil court cases related to the dispute is scheduled for March 23.