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Monday, August 28, 2006

More BS from the Gal Pals

We are getting blasted over on Riff's Blog. Mendon Tao has emerged from the cocktail hour once again to explain to all how we are wrong, have an agenda and are actually her... oops, Sharon Cutler's political nemesis in drag. Read the following and note the dates.

"Example, the most recent post on Eye on the Gray property makes the statement that the building comm brought the selectmen to the Morrison property " at least one of them kicking and screaming ". Of course they are refering to the BOS chair that eye has an obvious political agenda against. Do you want to know the real story? The drop dead date for the buyer to come up with the money for the Gray property was Aug 20. The building comm had scheduled a tentative meeting for the 21st in the hope that the buyer would fail to get the money and the town could jump in. However, the buyers realized they would not get the money and notified the Grays a little over a week before the Aug 20th drop dead date. The BOS chair got wind of all this and emailed the building comm with the new info. She further suggested that the building comm post a meeting as soon as was legally possible for the purpose of touring the property and voting on a recomendation to the BOS for them to act upon which they did. To say that anybody on the BOS had to be dragged kicking and screaming is a gross misrepresentation of the facts and a blatant example of someone pursuing their political agenda at the expense of the truth." Mendon Tao 8/25/2006 12:22:00 AM

If the above is true then how do you explain the following. These are from the minutes of the Public Safety Building Committee meeting on JUNE 19, 2006:

"J. Cronin states there is a new development that M. Ammendolia and J. Reed are exploring, and G. Smith presented property at 8 Morrison Drive to the committee.

Looking at plans, J. Cronin states that the Fire Department could move in tomorrow.

J. Reed asks if we bring the Morrison Drive property to the town, will we get a reprieve from the DOS? L. Tinio states yes.

N. Bradley would like the architect to look at this property. S. Cutler wants to wait and consider this property after the survey results are compiled.

J. Cronin states the committee is not leaving without a decision. The BOS needs to pursue this alternative.

S. Cutler states she will not put this on the agenda at a Selectmen’s meeting till the survey results are in. If G. Carell wants to look at it great, at no extra cost. "

The Committee wanted to look at the Morrisson propertya full 2 months before Augest 20 and Cutler said no way. Why you ask? The fact that her good buddy Judy Lionelli was the broker that had a potential buyer may have had something to do with it. Sharon didn't want to cut her friend out of a six-figure comission. Note to self: Do you get a finders fee for NOT bringing in a buyer? Only after Leonelli’s client fell through did Sharon become interested in the Morrison land. Coincidental timing? You make the call.

Yes we do attack sometimes but they usually have it coming. Judy Lionelli and Sharon Cutler are two peas in a pod. They are in it for themselves. You go girls.




Thursday, August 17, 2006

Hats off to REAL Public Servents!


The Public Safety Building Committee is far and away the best group of volunteer citizens this town has seen in many years. They have labored tirelessly and under the pall of politics and cronyism to fulfill their mandate of producing the most cost effective long-term solution to the infrastructure problems facing Mendon's public safety effort.

This week they hit "Pay Dirt" for the Mendon taxpayers and the Mendon Fire Department and EMS. They brought the selectmen (at least one of them, kicking and screaming) to the Morrison Drive Industrial Park and showed them the future.

Hats off to all the people who put this deal in motion. At the top of that list would be Joe Cronin and the entire Public Safety Building Committee and Mr. & Mrs. Gray who have agreed take the risk that the town will receive their offer favorably and act on it in a timely manner. Kudos also to Gary Smith the broker for the Gray's who understood how well this property fit the town's needs and the money it would save all of us. Gary’s insight and the savvy move of contacting the Committee directly saved the day while the BoS was floundering with the Fino property. The selectmen would have just kept trying to put lipstick on that pig.
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Ok, now that we have aroused all the nay Sayers lets do the numbers.

The cost of the Gray property is $2 million. The cost of the retrofit to make it a viable fire and EMS facility will probably come in around $500k. That is $2.5 million for a Fire and EMS facility that will serve the town for many decades. Let us add that there are unlimited expansion possibilities in the future. Including the current building there are 7.18 DRY acres on this lot.

Furthermore, the plans still exist to build a police station adequate for the towns needs for 50 years. The cost today would be about $2.5 million to build that building on the Grey property or in its original location in the town hall complex. Either way the TOTAL cost of the ultimate solution for public safety in Mendon would be $5 Million… Hmmmm. Lets be big spenders and assume that our numbers here are off by $500k. That would make the cost $5.5 million. Oh well.

The old proposal for the same thing on the Fino land was $7.5 million not counting the pesticide cleanup. That is a $250 saving for every man women and child in Mendon. You do the math.

Looks to us like the taxpayers save more than $1.5 million dollars and solve several of our town’s most pressing problems. Our numbers are preliminary but we added a million. That should cover contingencies.

Remember, your neighbors volunteering their time brought all this about. Not one of them was elected.

Our hats are off!

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

You Don't Count!

It's been 22 days and 2 Board of Health Meetings since we requested some information from the BOH. If you read the exchange below you will see that the Administrative Assistant was very prompt with her reply to our request. That is where "User Friendly" ended. We have not heard a word since then.

Apparently the 3 members of the BOH don't think much of the people who visit this site. They don't publish their minutes or answer our questions. Another Imperial Board that thinks you are peasants who should be kept in the dark. And they wonder why we are cynical. What a farce.

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From: BOH
To: Hanging Gardens
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: H5N1
Dear Hanging Gardens

I will pass on your request to the Chairman of the Board and will get you the information as soon as possible. If you have any other questions please let me know.

Thank you

Missy Kakela-Bottoms, Administrative Assistant
Mendon Board of Health


----- Original Message -----
From: Hanging Gardens
To: Missy Kakela-Bottoms

Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:37 PM

Subject: H5N1

We are under the impression the State has mandated that all cities and towns in the State formulate a plan to deal with a possible human pandemic as a result of the H5N1 virus. There is a discussion currently on our blog with regard to this issue.

We understand that this may be a sensitive issue but the citizens have a right to know how their town government is dealing with the mandate from the State.

We would like to know if a plan has been formulated by the town and what the particulars are. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. We can accept any form of electronic information.

Hanging Gardens
An Eye on Mendon

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Step up to the plate!

It's time again for the contest to win a lighting package for the Mendon Little League Baseball Field. We need to get 1,500 online votes to be entered in the drawing. For every additional 1,500 votes we get another entry in the drawing, so the more votes we get the better our chance of winning.

Granite City Electric along with Glynn Electric and Reflex Lighting Group are bringing an exciting promotion to your local town! Granite City Electric is not only lighting up Fenway Park this season, but for the 3rd year in a row will give away a sports lighting system complete with installation to a local junior baseball or softball field.

Follow the directions and vote for Mendon. You will be sent a confirmation email after you vote which you must reply to for your vote to count. You can vote as many times as you have email addresses, but only one vote per email address. Every vote must be confirmed. The whole process should take less than two minutes.

Ask your family and friends, lean on your workplace network. Forward to as many people as you can. We can do this for Mendon's young ball players.

Voting will be from August 1, 2006 - September 15, 2006