This letter is a personal response to
one that appeared in The Herald on Friday, 5/30/14 from David DeFronzo. Some
facts need to be made clear before getting to the main thrust of this letter:
Mr. DeFronzo is currently an Alderman serving on the New Britain Common
Council. a position he held all throughout the Administration of Tim
O’Brien and one he holds today; when O’Brien took over as Mayor in 2011
New Britain’s mil rate was 36.63, when he left two years later, it was 44.?? ;
some people realized a reduction in their real estate taxes because of a
statewide/ordered Revaluation that lowered most property values - while most
personal property taxes increased. Mr. DeFronzo carefully obfuscates these
facts by asserting that Mayor Stewart has “opted” to hit taxpayers with an 11%
increase to balance the budget. Does everyone see how sly and underhanded is
his wording? What Mr. DeFronzo intimates is that Mayor Stewart should be
held responsible to taxpayers for all of O’Brien’s feckless administrative
practices, practices he (DeFronzo) proudly supported along with other Council
Democrats. It’s important to mention here that before the 2011 municipal
election, Herald writer, Robert Storace wrote profiles of all the candidates;
in DeFronzo’s profile it was reported that he said, he “strongly supported”
that O’Brien budget.
At the public hearing on the budget,
18 people spoke about Youth Services a few on education, taxes and one
fire department cuts. But, Mr. DeFronzo says that cuts in these areas are
significantly high; what he doesn’t say is that that there are other
negotiations still going and that there is still time before final
reconciliations on the 2014-2015 need to be completed. Now Mr. DeFronzo knows
all this but he’s trying to scare people into thinking that doomsday is here
and that our Mayor is responsible.
Mr. DeFronzo tries to demonstrate
what a forward thinker he is but fails to acknowledge that what he attempts to
credit as his thinking/ideas are things that are already being done. DeFronzo
uses “weasel words” such as there need to be “real concessions” and “real
discussions”. One can infer from these remarks that any discussions that
have gone on and any concessions made are FAKE !
Near the end of his “Treatise” on
how to balance a budget and run a government DeFronzo cites the need for
accurate revenue projections and the need to find sustainable revenue sources.
WOW! Recently, Common Council members received a document showing the PHONY
REVENUE PROJECTIONS of the 2013-2014 O’Brien budget. Now, a few paragraphs ago
, I cited that Robert Storace reported in his profile on Mr. DeFronzo, that
DeFronzo said in 2011, that he “strongly supported the 2013-2014 O’Brien
Budget ! This entire letter by Mr. DeFronzo to me, is simply an attempt to pull
the wool over taxpayers’ eyes about what O’Brien did to New Britain and to
place the blame on the current Mayor. It won’t work !
Lou Salvio, Alderman
Dave is all talk, no bite. Didnt he campaign on the idea he was going to stop Costco ?
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