TAKING UMBRAGE at an editorial in last week's Hudson-Litchfield News that questioned his ethics -- and perhaps still on a Rocky Mountain high after an exhilarating Colorado vacation -- Hudson Selectmen Chairman Roger Coutu argued at Tuesday night's selectmen's meeting that he acted sagely in issuing a stop-work order three weeks ago to Benson Park roofing contractor Kevin Langill without the Board majority's official consent.
On Aug. 11, Coutu had been about to leave town on a long-planned Denver flight when he signed a stop-work order to be delivered to Langill and his son, Eric, co-owners of KLS Contracting, by Assistant Town Administrator Mark Pearson, after Pearson and the Langills had quarreled over contractual issues.
If he had it to do over again, he'd call an emergency meeting of the board, Coutu said during Tuesday night's selectmen's meeting. But after all five selectmen had confronted Langill with evidence showing KSL had not met its contractual obligations, and had apparently secretively dumped housing debris elsewhere on the Benson's site, Coutu felt vindicated.
"This (5-0 vote to fire Langill) justifies the action I took," said Coutu. "I did what I thought was in the best interests of protecting the taxpayers' money."
Coutu felt vidicated for violating ethics...the law is a law..I guess unless your the Chairman..
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