Cleveland mayor faces harassment charge following disagreement at village board meeting

The mayor of Cleveland has been charged with harassment following a disagreement with a trustee at a village board meeting.

Norm B. Youmans, 76, was charged earlier this week with second-degree harassment, a violation, according to state police records.

He is due to appear in Constantia Town Court Monday, though the case will likely be transferred to a different court. Both town justices have recused themselves from handling the case; Oswego County Court Judge Walter W. Hafner, Jr. will reassign the case to another jurisdiction.

Youmans called the incident with one of the trustees at the Dec. 11 village board meeting ?a minor thing.?

?I was having a meeting, and I held him out of the room,? Youmans said. ?That was all there was to it.

?No one was hurt, no one was injured,? he continued. ?It wasn?t a physical scuffle or something.?

Youmans, who has been mayor for two years, said disagreement concerned an ?in-house matter.?

?We had a civil conversation at the meeting, and we are still doing business together,? he said. ?He?s trying to make a big deal out of it.?

The charge carries a maximum sentence of 15 days in jail, according to the district attorney?s office.

We will update this when more information becomes available.

Source: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/cleveland_mayor_faces_harassme.html

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