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Don't miss the Milford Daily News article today about Mendon's Public Safely Building. It is very clear that Cutler is doing damage control over the defeat of the proposed project. Rather than getting a plan in place to deal with issues the selectmen should have dealt with prior to the purchase of the Fino land, she claims that everything was done correctly. Oh Really Sharon.
"We did a full environmental study before we agreed to purchase the property," she said. "We spent $22,000 for it."
Apparently Sharon missed the warning in the Tighe & Bond report that appeared in two places. “ A full risk assessment … must be done.. before any development” What part of you blew it doesn’t she understand?
The, in Sharon's words, full environmental study was only preliminary and contained the above warning in the executive summary and in the body of the report. There was also a separate letter strongly recommending further testing. Hello, anybody home?
Sharon still claims there are 90 contaminated farms in Mendon. Like that is going to make her sin look any less egregious. It is not true but Sharon would throw anybody under the bus to make herself look better. Just ask the former firemen.
"They want more information on the soil and we'll be meeting with the Board of Health on that to see if they can put together an order of conditions.”
The Board of Health does not have the expertise or the resources to deal with this type of thing. There is no way they will be able to conduct a full risk assessment of the property. That has to be done by an outside firm that specializes in such things.
The sooner Cutler stops practicing damage control and playing the CYA game and gets down to the task at hand, the sooner Mendon can address the public safety issue. We have the plan and we have the site. Too bad we still don’t have the leadership.
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just so people aren't left with the impression that Mendon is a brownfield of 90 pesticide laden farm sites they (and Sharon)should know that most of those 90 were Dairy Farms and no other (that I can think of ) were orchards.
I hold everything that Sharon Cutler says suspect.
She says one thing to one person, and behind their back says another to someone else.
I don't trust her. I'll be watching.
Hanging Gardens is right. Sharon
really just DOESN'T GET IT! People stated over and over again that they wanted to know the full testing and mitigation costs before they were willing to commit any more money to this site. But she still keeps patting them on the head and assuring them that she will make everything all right. She's perfectly willing to throw the entire town under the bus.
If Sharon Cutler was in possession of the test results on the soil prior to the purchase, why didn't she make those results available to the townspeople prior to the vote on spending 3.5 million for the land? Didn't they have a right to know that going in to the vote? And she admits publicly that they were aware of the contamination prior to the purchase, which means that any cleanup will come out of Mendon's pocket, not the former owners who sold the contaminated land. Keep up the good work, Sharon!
Marie Parente is rumored to be going to the Public Safety Building MTG on Tuesday night 7pm
Of course she is it's re-election time.
what public safety building meeting? i"m new to this blog and brcause of this blog I was made aware of the contamination and voted no on the public safety building. Why and where is this meeting being held?
The Public Safety Advisory Committee meeting will be held at the Senior Center on Providence Road tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:00.
A list of meetings can be found on the town web site. http://new.mendonma.net/. Go to the Town Calendar Page.
HG
thanks for the town of mendon link. not to sound like an idiot but is this meeting going to change anything? i know the BOS tries to sneak things in behind our backs so if it is important for us to attend i will most certainly go. i am new to all of this so any info you can give me will be appreciated.
We're not sure what the agenda for the meeting is about.
We hope that the committee will strongly urge the selectmen to begin the process of site assessment on the land so the building project can come to another vote.
If you attend the meeting let us know what happened.
HG
i wonder if ernie will be there. there's always a fear of retaliation. I will let you know what happens if i do go. thanks for the info. this blog is great.
Can all of Millville's fire and police apparatus fit in our new public facility? King Ernie may want to centralize when he takes over those departments too. King Ernie's new position can be called the Mendon/Millville Regional Public Safety Director. After all, he has been spending most of his time out of town. Look out Hopedale, Grafton, Blackstone, and Upton. The King Ernie watch has seen him eating at a McDonalds in your community!
As some one who "helped prepare" the state grant application that got us money to evaluate the purchase of the Fino property, I can verify that only $10,000 or less of that grant was spent to have Tighe & Bond look at the land.
Here are the actual passages from the grant application involving this:
"The Town would like to hire Tighe & Bond, Inc. -- an engineering firm which prepared the "environmental" section of Mendon's EO418 Community Development Plan -- to complete an environmental assessment of the property. This is necessary since Mendon relies on private wells and septic systems and the Town needs to determine if the use of half the acreage as an apple orchard has caused any soil or groundwater pollution. The Town has determined that Tighe & Bond is available and has the capacity to perform this environmental assessment within the Town of Mendon's desired Task/Benchmark schedule. "
"Tighe & Bond is ready to proceed according to our proposed schedule and provided the Town with an oral "ball park" estimate of $10,000.00 for costs associated with providing the environmental assessment outlined in No. 1, above. Tighe & Bond will submit a written proposal to the Town once PDF funding is approved by DHCD/Mass Housing. The Town will then sign a contract prepared by Tighe & Bond that will govern the scope/costs/timing/deliverables of the environmental assessment."
"The Town selected Tighe & Bond because it prepared the "environmental" section of Mendon's EO418 Community Development Plan, as well as acting as a consultant to the Town on a groundwater pollution problem (not related to this site), and performing the preliminary environmental assessment on the 75+ acre parcel."
When the grant was approved, the Board of Selectmen negotiated the terms of a contract with Tighe & Bond.
- Kevin Rudden
Thank you Kevin. That is the kind of information that is helpful to everyone.
HG
To Anonymous who takes great delight in slamming Ernie Horn. If you have something/anything of substance to contribute, lets have it. Other than that take your cheap shots elsewhere. We don't care that you don't like him and will continue to reject any insulting posts.
HG
For those of you who would like to know, the fire department budget will be covered and voted on this Friday evening in a Special Town Meeting. It begs the question as to why this wasn't handled during the Town Meeting like everything else. I know that they will say that the Town Meeting goes so long and the fire dept. budget would have made it longer, but that's a cop-out. Everything to do with the fire department since Ernie took over, from the hiring of a deputy when there weren't the funds to do so, to giving Ernie a $10,000/year pay raise, to trying to get an $800,000 fire truck, to voting on a $7.5 million public safety building have all been done via Special Town Meeting. There is a reason for this and that is the fact that no one goes to those meetings. Ernie and the BOS accused the former fire department members of stacking meetings in order to swing the vote their way, but that is exactly what they are doing by having all of these issues dealt with via Special Town Meeting. It's more back-door politicking which is business as usual for our town leaders and Horn. Sneak it past the voters when they're not looking in a Special Town Meeting. We had better wake up as citizens and start attending these meetings to see how our money is being spent. The voters need to say "no" because the BOS has shown themselves incapable of doing so when it comes to Ernie Horn and this public safety empire that he is trying to develop for himself.
I'm not the "anonymous" to whom you are referring HG, but I remember in the early days of this blog, you took great delight in slamming Judy Leonelli. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander don't you think?
Anonymous said...
I'm not the "anonymous" to whom you are referring HG, but...
We have in the past and will continue to slam public figures who we feel need slamming.
Go back and read our posts about Leonelli. They were never about her personal appearance or habits.
We are not trying to protect Horn here. We just feel that the comments should be relevant to his job performance, not what he has for lunch.
HG
The meeting on Friday is for this year's budgets, transfers to make it to end of year, for a number of line items in various departments.
The FD budget was voted at the Annual Town Meeting, as usual.
And as usual it was too much$$$
Why aren't other departments done in Special Town Meeting then? Why are fire department issues so frequently dealt with in this way now? It gives the impression of trying to get things past the populous. Special Town Meetings are notoriously under-attended and this one will probably be less so since there were so many meetings to attend prior. The BOS and Ernie are banking on the fact that people are fed up at this point with attending meetings. Prove to them that they are wrong. Hold their feet to the fire and question where this money is coming from and going and why.
what about the ballot for the school, which is costing $3,000 of our money? Will you not vote on that because it's at a "special" election?
I'm not quite sure what you mean and what the school ballot has to do with my post. I will attend both special and regular town meetings and cast my vote according to my conscience. How about you?
I vote early and often
The Board of Health has control over just this type of situation by law. They know they're not experts; they'll hire some. duh
unfortunatly our current board of Health is the most uninformed one we have ever had. People that really know about BOH issues are discouraged from running because of conflict of interest concerns so we get what we have which is nothing.
When were they ever informed?Except maybe when the BOH secretary was on it. Maybe today's BOH issues are too important for volunteers?
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