KINGSTON – Another meeting with their attorney, in private, is the latest step in the slow process of deciding what kind of litigation could be filed against the contractors involved in the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center fiasco. 

Legislator Alan Lomita says the executive session discussion Wednesday night, at what was billed an ‘information meeting’ for the full legislature, was just to get more input on what could be done with Crandell Associates, the project architect, and Bovis Lend Lease, the construction management firm.

“In the weeks to come, I think everybody will know more about what’s going on and what the strategy is.”

Earlier this year, a grand jury found no evidence of major corruption in the project that was more than two years late in completion, and more than $20 million over it is originally projected $72 million cost. 

Former Commissioner of Buildings and Grounds Harvey Sleight was the only county official to be indicted, on a single misdemeanor charge. 

In his March 27 report following the release of the grand jury results, District Attorney D. Holley Carnright concluded the fault fell mainly on “bad decisions” by people who “… were not acting with any malice or criminal mindset”.