Matter of Village of South Blooming Grove v Town of Bloo
Motion No: 2014-00323
Slip Opinion No: 2015 NY Slip Op 84669(U)
Decided on September 16, 2015
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M198580

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RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

MARK C. DILLON

RUTH C. BALKIN, JJ.

2014-00323

In the Matter of Village of South Blooming

Grove, et al., petitioners, v Town of Blooming

Grove, respondent.

ORDER OF REFERENCE

Proceeding pursuant to General Municipal Law § 712 brought by the Village of South Blooming Grove to review a determination of the Town of Blooming Grove dated November 11, 2013, which denied the applications of the Village of South Blooming Grove and Rieger Enterprises, LLC, for annexation of certain real property to the Village of South Blooming Grove, and to determine whether the annexation proposed in the petitions is in the overall public interest.

Upon the petitions and the papers filed in support thereof, and upon the answers to the petitions, it is

ORDERED that pursuant to General Municipal Law § 712(6), the following three persons are designated as referees to hear and to report to this Court, in conformity with General Municipal Law § 712(9), on the issue of whether the proposed annexation by the Village of South Blooming Grove of certain property in the Town of Blooming Grove is in the overall public interest:

Honorable Arthur J. Cooperman

Honorable Charles Thomas

Mary Ellen Skenyon, Esq.

and it is further,

ORDERED that the proceeding is held in abeyance, pending the receipt by this Court of the report by the referees, which shall be made and filed by them with all convenient speed.

ENG, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, DILLON and BALKIN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court