.jpg)
The Minority Leader of The Common Council, Louis Salvio, expressed his concerns over the planned expansion of the Mattabsett District for One Hundred Million dollars citing if Middletown doesn’t join the Mattabassett district we should just truck the sludge to the MDC and avoid this enormous cost to the New Britain Taxpayers.
The foregoing remark was partly caused by the district’s proposed increase of cost, recommended by New Britain’s Board of Public Works, of a twenty cents per cubic foot.
Aldermen Sherwood and Trueworthy voted against the proposal causing a tied vote, by the Democrats, with the Mayor breaking the tie by voting for the resolution.
If South Windsor can lower their sewer rates, why can't we do the same? Could it be the management or should I say mismanagement of our sewer plant????????
ReplyDeleteTown To Lower Sewer Rates
POSTED: 5:17 pm EDT June 8, 2010
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. -- While most people are dealing with higher municipal fees, one town has come up with a way to cut back.
The town council said South Windsor’s Sewer Authority was charging home and business owners for unnecessary items. Now, it wants to drop rates by a third.
The town council approved a sewer authority budget that lowers the annual sewer fee from $300 a year to $200.
“It’s always good to have some money in your pocket, for sure,” said South Windsor resident Jill Betts.
Council member Kathy Hale said the sewer authority had been increasing fees and setting money aside it thought would be needed for a major plant upgrade.
It turns out that’s unnecessary. So we have an accumulated $1.9 million that we can reallocate,” said Hale.
In addition, South Windsor town ordinances may not even allow the sewer authority to collect fees for anything other than maintenance and operation.
Another council member said the sewer authority could force a showdown and charge what it wants. Resident Mary Houghton said, “I don’t believe it. Not until I see it.”
The council Democrats got their way,
ReplyDeleteAnd now the rest of us must pay!!!
Council Appoints Candelori
By DON STACOM, dstacom@courant.com | December 10, 2009
Weeks of partisan sniping culminated Wednesday night in the common council's reappointment of William Candelori, a key figure in the Colonial Realty scandal, to head the regional sewage treatment board. The vote came after a series of residents and Mattabassett District Commission members alternately praised and condemned Candelori. Republican Mayor Timothy Stewart recently vetoed the reappointment, but the council's Democratic majority voted to override his decision Wednesday night.
Frank:
ReplyDeleteThe increase was proposed by the Board of Public Works for an increase in the sewer use fee.
The proposed rate increase was the result of the Public Works Commission voting to accept the 20 cent increase. The vote of the council was to accept the report only. Even if the council voted no the rate increase would still be 20 cents. The council could have referred the report back to the Commission but according the the Public Works director the delay would cause an even larger increase due to the delay.
ReplyDeleteWait for Monday, when the Council is obligated to pass their budget, to see who is really watching out for the taxpayers.
Council Appoints Candelori
ReplyDeleteBy DON STACOM, dstacom@courant.com | December 10, 2009
Weeks of partisan sniping culminated Wednesday night in the common council's reappointment of William Candelori, a key figure in the Colonial Realty scandal, to head the regional sewage treatment board. The vote came after a series of residents and Mattabassett District Commission members alternately praised and condemned Candelori. Republican Mayor Timothy Stewart recently vetoed the reappointment, but the council's Democratic majority voted to override his decision Wednesday night.
Isn't it always the fault of the man at the top, in this case the convicted felon?
ReplyDeleteWhere does it end? How many of us are getting raisies or have businesses that are doing well? Not many unless you work for a union. How can we absorb all these increases when our earnings are in reverse motion? No SSI increase for seniors this year, no interest on their savings accounts, stock portfolios and dividends down. College tuition up. Maybe you out of work all together and hearing about your water bill and property taxes going up.
ReplyDeleteBetter start collecting rain water and flushing your toilet once a day.
Better start collecting rain water and flushing your toilet once a day.
ReplyDeleteYou mean you didn't change over your toilet to the new water saving toilet required by federal law? Obama's storm troopers might have their own plate finder to come looking for you?
Yet another tax increase in disguise from Mayor Stewart that has nothing to do with Frank Smith's vendettas against the Mattabasett crowd.....
ReplyDeleteWhat does Frank Smith have to do with them mismanaging the sewer plant to the point where they need to raise our rates?
ReplyDeleteAlso, how can you blame this on Mayor Stewart? He vetoed the appointment of the convicted felon as the head of the Mattabassett, it was the Democrats on the council who overrode his veto and now you are going to try and blame the mayor when he did what he could to fix the problem? The council played their games, and now you have to pay for their cronyism.
Maybe we should be looking to hire the plant manager from the sewer plant in South Windsor?
How is it a "vendetta" to tell the people paying the bills what is really going on in that plant under the leadership of a convicted felon who was one of the leaders of Colonial Realty--the biggest real estate swindle in Connecticut history?
ReplyDeleteFoxwoods Casino Chair: bribes and a "laundry list of convicted felons" for associates
ReplyDeleteSubmitted by HelenGym on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 6:26pm.
In case you were wondering how much seedier the dealings with casinos in Philadelphia could get, consider the latest news about Foxwoods chair Michael Thomas.
Apparently Thomas knows quite a bit about running up a debt - he's being sued by Sovereign Bank for $6.5 million owed to them from a line of credit Thomas (in a countersuit) claims was initially offered to him as a bribe.
In a twist, Thomas claims that "since the loan was made 'against public policy' and with the intent to 'violate the law,'the loan documents are void, the argument goes, and therefore Thomas cannot be compelled to pay the money back."
Nice.
But as the case unveils in Superior Court, there's a lot more than just an eyebrow-raising countersuit. Consider this:
According to Sovereign, the investors with an interest in that property include some of the principal characters in the collapse of Colonial Realty in the 1990s, Connecticut's own Madoff-style Ponzi scheme in which local investors lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Among those with an interest in the Groton property that was put up to secure Thomas' loan, the bank said in court papers, are Jonathan Googel, a Colonial founder who pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud, bank fraud and tax fraud; Kevin Sisti, the son of another Colonial founder, who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for taking loan proceeds for his father, and William P. Candelori, a former state lawmaker and Colonial executive, who pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion.
These and others have all been named in new complaints filed in Sovereign's suit against Thomas, which is drawing defendants and their lawyers like cloud banks to a gathering storm.
“It's a laundry list of convicted felons,” one person familiar with the case said of the growing list of defendants.
That includes Thomas himself, who was convicted as a young man on drug-dealing charges in Rhode Island.
Helping Thomas with advice about the Sovereign loan and other personal business matters, according to people familiar with the Sovereign case, is none other than Daniel Gordon, one of eastern Connecticut's most notorious white-collar criminals.
In a case that prosecutors called astonishing for its sophistication and brazenness, Gordon, a Norwich native, was accused of embezzling $43 million from Merrill Lynch when he was a top energy trader for the firm.
As columnist David Collins muses:
I wonder what gaming regulators in Pennsylvania will think of all of this, bribes and criminal associations, when Thomas' gaming license, part of the tribe's pursuit of a share in a Philadelphia casino, comes up for its annual review for renewal.
It's $.20 per hundred cubic ft.
ReplyDelete