Imagine this HR nightmare: You have a department of five people, and three of them resign at once.
In this case, it won’t be up to HR to replace the three departing employees. It’s a bit more complicated than that.
The small town of Ancram, NY, population 1,500, doesn’t have an operating government at the moment.
That’s because three of the town’s five elected supervisors recently quit, leaving the municipality without a quorum.
And without a quorum, the remaining two supervisors can’t appoint replacements.
When a local government collapses, state law kicks in. It will be up to New York Governor David Paterson to appoint a supervisor.
While one supervisor resigned for health reasons, two others hinted that tensions between long-time residents of the town 90 miles north of New York City and newbies who are buying weekend and vacation homes there were the reason for their resignations.
