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Town of Palmer Lake — Cost of the Effort to Remove Trustee Moseley
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Compiled by Integrity Matters & Tri-Lakes Preservation from the Town's own checks and its outside counsel's invoices. Two figures below answer two different questions — read the basis column. See Method & Notes.
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ComponentAmountBasis
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TIER 1 — Directly attributable to the removal / investigation / records fight ('spent to remove him')
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JVAM removal/investigation + CORA — Apr invoice #49878$16,287.50Itemized invoice; line-by-line analysis (descriptions visible)
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JVAM removal/investigation + CORA — May invoice #51227$10,942.50Itemized invoice; line-by-line analysis (descriptions visible)
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JVAM REDACTED billing — Apr ($2,100) + May ($3,060)$5,160.00
25 lines the Town blacked out; descriptions withheld but amounts visible. ALL Whitmer/Mallonee, $0 to the CORA attorney; pattern ties them to removal/investigation. See redaction-log exhibit.
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Employers Council + Getches + Berg Hill (retention checks)$20,839.07Vendor check registers / IM records
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DIRECTLY-ATTRIBUTABLE FLOOR (retallied with redactions)$53,229.07
Description-visible portion ($48,069) + $5,160 redacted whose pattern ties to removal
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TIER 2 — Total outside legal + investigation spend, Feb–May 2026 ('spent amid the removal effort')
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JVAM total billed — Apr #49878 + May #51227$64,684.50Full invoices (incl. routine town legal work)
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Retention checks (Employers Council + Getches + Berg Hill)$20,839.07Same checks as Tier 1
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PERIOD TOTAL — outside legal + investigation$85,523.57Clears $80K — but DO NOT label as 'all to remove him' (includes routine work)
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STILL TO COME / FOR CONTEXT
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Projected cost of the removal hearing itself$25,000.00
Town minutes 4/23/26: hearing 'may exceed the $25,000–$30,000 cost of a recall' (low end shown)
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Prior Town Attorney baseline — Krob Law, monthly$8,207.50
Dec 2025 register (#51246). Successor JVAM bills $26,785–$37,899/mo. Jump is PARTLY removal/CORA, partly the ~2.5-mo attorney gap, onboarding & backlog — context, not a clean removal cost
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HOW SOLID — sourcing of the Tier 1 floor
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 confirmed from an official register$20,839.07March & April registers (in hand)
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 reported, pending the Feb register-Feb register prints in an April-meeting packet not yet in hand
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 JVAM removal/CORA billing (2 invoices)$27,230.00Documents real; categorization is IM/TLP's
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Publishable line: "More than $53,000 directly tied to the removal effort — including $5,160 in billing the Town blacked out on its own invoices — part of more than $85,000 in outside legal and investigation costs the Town has run up since it began, with the hearing itself projected at another $25,000–$30,000." The $48,069 description-visible portion is the bulletproof floor; the +$5,160 redacted is added on the pattern (all Whitmer/Mallonee, none the CORA attorney). Tier 1 = "to remove him"; Tier 2 = "amid the effort." "And climbing": excludes JVAM billing after May and the hearing.
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