Open forum 6/1
The Cheshire Herald has a new reporter, Josh Morgan. He did this piece on the pool and the pool consultant report. I found this comment interesting:
Town Manager Michael Milone said the meeting next week will be the first in a series of meetings that will hopefully answer some questions the (P&R) commission has.Forgive me, but... wasn't the $20,000 pool consultant report supposed to answer questions about the pool? Perhaps I'm missing something. Regardless, it's good to hear that we'll be having more meetings!
Here's the only article I've seen recently on the garbage removal scandal (AP) that broke last year... the article relates to Waterbury though.
The MRJ blog recently mentioned:
The Islander East is back in the news as it gathers permits locally for pipeline which will run near Thimble Islands down to Long Island and
A coup, for the Cheshire Youth Baseball League to secure a sponsor willing to ante up $800,000 (Any idea on the donor?)
One more reminder that the Chamber will be having a lunch at Elim Park on Friday with keynote speaker Chris Murphy. I'll have to take a half day from work, but I'm hoping to attend.
I think the state Senate has renewed the old "Heart & Hypertension law." Now HB6956 is up for a House vote. If I have this correct, this bill will effectively reinstate the old heart & hypertension law... a costly law. I think Cheshire now has an annual reserve of a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for costs related to this law.
What else is happening?
Tim White
Town Council, 4th District
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Altieri wants to waste a million bucks on turf
Yet Hammonasset has no boardwalk, only surf
Altieri vehemently opposed the linear park
Now off the campaign trail, he forgets to hark.
vote democratic, but not altieri
Instead of pointing fingers to people - I would say that it is not just Altieri - correct? Again, when is the financial bleeding in town going to stop? When is the town going to do things right? Is South Main Street development (Sidewalks, etc.) necessary? What about the existing fire department? Police Station? A town like ours should have a public facilities complex for the fire, police and ambulance. This would free up space in the center of town for other things.
Great idea. We are going to lease a perfect site for this to youth baseball. I'm sure there is other land for youth baseball. Isn't there more land at the park across from the prison in the upper area? Jarvis and Marion rd wasn't that to be fields?
$800,000 wow. Maybe it one of Cheshires major league player given back to his town. Sounds like an investment. I'm still shaking my head over the fact they will write their own lease.
Is the town really willing to spend the millions necessary to build a police, fire and ambulance building? I don't think so. We already have facilities for all three.
Already have the facilities, but the fire department was built in the early 70's and the ambulance building is next to a house in an old garage and the police station is becoming out of date, even with the many additions of the years. So would it not make sense to combine to save money then build (3) new? so think again
The people won't go for it, in the end a waste of money.
The people would go for something that makes sense and will stop the financial bleeding in town. Examples (High School, pool, town center, etc.) The town needs to be smart in spending money. May it be a public facilities complex or renovations of the existing schools, the town needs to be smarter. We all pay a huge tax in town, and all we see is it being wasted.
"The town needs to be smart in spending money."
This is much of the reason why I've been advocating the town do an RFP for "townwide energy services."
With energy costs so high... we may be able to do infrastructure improvements that have some relatively short (3, 5, 10 yrs) paybacks.
This is another reason why I've been calling for a Charter revision... a few years ago, the Council was advised against entering into an energy contract (a performance-based contract) because of Charter constraints.
Exactly what is needed. For all public town projects, grants and other types of funding exists to help offset the costs of a building. Example, the Discovery Mus. in Bridgeport, offset construction renovation costs with installing solar panels in the parking lot. The electrical utilities give credits and also will take extra energy. For all building projects, an RFQ and then RFP should be issued. LEEDs is important and can financially help a town.
As for centralizing the Town's emergency services near the corner of Jarvis and Highland... emergency response time may be a concern.
I thought Campion's Ambulance was privately owned. Why would the town build them anything? If they are building new buildings for privately owned businesses, where can I sign up?
And response time will only get worse with the mall being built.
The Cheshire Herald really called out the CAVE men. Just be against something yet not explain how to do it better or more effectively, great ed piece.
The Cheshire Herald blew it and anyone for or against WS should see that. Since when is criticism inapropriate? Constructive criticism leads to better outcomes. Voting for and against means critical thought has been made even though the opinions differ. The Herald has failed to ask any questions and has left a few members of the community in the position of having to take their POV to the public.
When have you ever seen an editorial in the Herald go unsigned by a member of the community? When has anyone in the public hearing process been able to escape public disclosure of their name and address? The only place anonymous is a signature is here, Tim White's Blog. This is where the Herald is seeing rational questions and opinions expressed along with some silly rhymes. They just don't like the no voters.
Their contribution to this important debate is that of a shill. They see ad revenue exploding and they could care less about anything more. If they did they would be actually interviewing the opposition and the proponents but no its just satisfy the realestate advertisers and thus insuring the pending tomes of inserts coming our way via the Herald.
The Cheshire Herald is nothing more than real estate advertising and school news. They have never had any articles of value, this editorial has only reinforced that. The only place people are anonymous is in this blog. The Herald has no business referencing this blog, half of the posters are probably high school students (poet especially). From what I understand they have lost a few of their editorial staff, they should get rid of the rest and start over.
They hit the nail on the head and that is why there is the crying going on above, be against is the theme. If there are options lets look at them-but the
Cave men crowd don;t even want to have a discussion just no and that is it
Where are the pro people coming up with anything constructive except "we want to shop". The people questioning this proposal have sited legitimate reasons for their opposition. Traffic, 10 mile river polution, school crowding, overblown tax revenue gains, infrastructive costs, just to name a few. It's the pro people who are against discussion. I really think you should get your facts straight.
I don't see where the paper said it is supporting the plan. They are saying let it go through the process. We have elected representatives to research this through. And who here hasn't bought a business or piece of property not to make a profit. Don't we all excpect to make a profit on our investments? It's that old jealousy issue again.Certain people are evil no matter what they do.
I think it's more than high school kids who want the project. Many people are tired of leaving town for shopping....oh evil me for wanting to stay in town to shop.
I agree lets hear the whole plan out, it's a long way to go until a decision is made.
It's the naysayers who don't want to hear the facts. It's too bad people have to be so ignorant
No one is against someone making a profit. But they bought the land KNOWING it was zoned industrial. To buy the land and HOPE that they can get P&Z to change the text to mixed use/retail/residential is the risk they took.
yes, they knew it was zoned industrial.Maybe they will get approved and maybe they won't. You can't fault them for trying, anyone who could would. They took a risk and they are giving it a shot, what will be will be.
The town sure was happy when they thought Erichetti was going to build the huge Apple Valley Mall years ago, why the change of heart now?
Lets face it-the antis are just trying to set up something for the fall-they can't defeat the opposition on their record so they just stand opposed to everything hoping that there is a slight chance that something might go wrong witht he project. It is a disaster plan that will backfire on them as did the zero budget aand the lin trail and well /.... tooo much to mention in one post
The Town had an opportunity to have a firm review, design and present two options for saving energy at the pool. One option was what can be done with the bubble and existing equipment. The second was what could be done if a building enclosed the pool. The Energy Commission, Town Manager and staff from the Park & Rec Dept had meetings with the firm and all that was needed was a signature on the contract from the Town Manager. At the last minute in November of last year the Town Manager and Town Council decided against this idea and chose a pool consultant. For $20,000 we got nothing new and noting on what it would take to reduce energy in the existing bubble. We could have had by February solutions for energy savings with the bubble, and it would have only cost $2,400. The payback would have been short, we would start saving money this fall.
Matt Altieri longs for a democratic revolution
He would take an oath to the US Constitution.
Opposed to suspending a habeus corpus writ?
That’s in doubt because he is a hypocrite.
Vote progressive.
Vote Visconti!
not Altieri.
I'm new here, what do the references to CAveMen mean?
CAVE men (Citizens Against Vertually Everything) but it really means anybody who has a different opinion from yours. Welcome to Cheshire! Please don't be afraid to speak out this is not Venezuela.
Well some people think it is Venezuela since they believe the First Amednment allows them to use the private property of others (telephone poles) as advertising for their favored causes
Without consent or compensation---Senor Chavez...oops, Bisbort
Where are telephone poles homeowner property they belong to AT&T. All of a sudden telephone poles are such a concern. I've seen them used for Relay for Life, Walk-A-Thons, tag sales, lost animals, you name it. It's only a problem when people use them to put up signs questioning the "Lifestyle Center"
Derf should have been arrested for his actions. Someone should report him to the state so his employers know he is breaking the law in Cheshire. And then suggesting that all of the Relay signs must be taken down, I am sure that everyone in town knows that by know, smart move.
Shoot the messenger again. That will put an end to the debate.
We don't want to shoot him, just a small fine would be ok.
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