The tension surrounding the Port Washington Water Pollution Control District intensified Tuesday when the district moved to remove one of three elected commissioners.

Commissioners Arduino Marinelli and Melanie Cassens voted to approve a resolution authorizing the district's special counsel to seek a court order from the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division to remove commissioner Brandon Kurz over his "violation of his oath of office."

Kurz abstained from the vote.

Marinelli and Cassens have been embroiled in a public dispute with Kurz throughout the summer, stemming from what they believed to be his conflict of interest. Kurz had served as executive director of the Port Washington Police Athletic League, which plays its games at the district-owned Sunset Park, until he stepped

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