During the Feb. 2 Zoom meeting, Dunkirk Councilman At-Large Paul VanDenVouver offered a vague, yet curious remark regarding a property incident he was looking into near the entrance of Point Gratiot.

“I’m still doing some investigation work on that,” he said. “I’ve been gathering up a lot of material and I should have something in the near future.”

Toward the end of this week’s meeting was when VanDenVouver offered the full reveal: an eight-page report by council attorney Dan Gard that alleges there was work done by city Department of Public Works employees over three days in August 2019 on private property. Gard’s recommendation in the report of the “large, unjustifiable and unconstitutional gift of municipal resources to a private individual” was to refer this matter to the appropriate enforcement agencies, recommending both the state comptroller’s office as well as the FBI’s Public Corruption Division.

VanDenVouver said the report was done in response to council receiving reports from city residents about the alleged happenings on Aug. 5, 6 and 15, 2019, at 10 Finch St. in the city. VanDenVouver, during the meeting, said the work included 100 hours of manpower and four pieces of city equipment in the project that was estimated to cost taxpayers between $6,000 and $8,000.

Complete story in Thursday’s editions.