Spring Valley Board Votes To Rescind Mallia's New Contract

SPRING VALLEY, NY — In a new vote which the mayor said was highly irregular, the Spring Valley Board of Trustees voted to end the newest consulting contract they gave Anthony Mallia in August, The Journal News reported.

The former Ramapo building inspector who resigned from that job 2017 after pleading guilty to felony corruption, and whose subsequent job with Spring Valley was discovered and halted in 2019, had been hired for a third time by the mayor. SEE: Village Re-Hires Felon With $50,000 6-Month Contract.

Spring Valley Mayor Alan Simon and Anthony Mallia had worked together in Ramapo. Simon previously served as the head of Ramapo's building and zoning department and as town attorney and Mallia was Ramapo's building inspector. Simon was elected to the bench in Spring Valley and Ramapo until he was removed from the judgeships for professional misconduct. Mallia was removed from his building inspector job for for professional misconduct.

The first time Simon hired Mallia in Spring Valley in 2018, it was over the objections of the county Probation Department and the district attorney. Then, the county Personnel Department found out the mayor had bypassed the civil service process. The contract was terminated. That job carried a salary of $125,000.

The village board rehired him in 2019 with a contract, for a salary capped at $75,000. The cap was reached in September and the trustees did not renew it, The Journal News reported.

Simon proposed a one-year, $100,000 contract for Mallia at a special meeting Aug. 11. The board ultimately decided on a 6-month $50,000 contract.

Then, in a 3-2 vote Tuesday, the trustees voided the contract. TJN reported that Eudson Francois, Deputy Mayor Zach Clerina and Asher Grossman voted to end the contract while the mayor and Trustee Yisroel Eisenbach voted to keep it. Simon and the village attorney warned the action, taken without warning or reason, could leave the village open to a lawsuit for breach of contract, reporter Steve Lieberman wrote.

Simon employs Mallia's wife as his assistant.

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