Letter in West Hartford News

A version of the following letter was printed in the West Hartford News on March 10, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------- Residents using their rights to challenge blue back Anyone else who stood at the meeting tonight in room 422 of Town Hall in West Hartford heard Mr. Weinner dodge question after question saying that basically most of the questions that were asked were more questions for the town. Wow, there's a surprise! I was wondering when we'd get to the "Oh, you'll have to ask the other partner in this partnership to get the answer." The bottom line on Blue Back is that Mr. Heapes and Mr. Weinner obviously have the town council and town manager on a string. The fact that several of our town's residents' lawsuit contain "Language in the lawsuit bears a close resemblance to arguments that the same attorneys filed on behalf of Westfarms..." as an editorial in today'd Courant writes, is absolutely irrelevant. The citizens who are standing up to not only the town and this monstrosity of a development, but basically half the state should be applauded by all of us. Finally we have citizens taking the action they have a right to take against the town that has done so many things in the wrong way. My next topic is the the fire on Raymond Road a month or so ago. Hmmm, let's think about this for a minute...a building burns completely through at a time when it's guaranteed that no one will be inside, in an area ripe for "fresh" development. Who could have guessed that the cause of the fire would be undetermined? I'm no fire investigator, but I can't think of an area of town where I'd be more suspicious of an intentionally set fire.

Proposed 6% increase in town budget

The new budget was proposed last night by Mr. Feldman and it contains an increase of over $10 million from the previous year. That equates to an increase of 6.1% which will once again fall on the taxpayers. This is very close to the amount voted down by a referendum last year. We can do better than this and you can be assured that there will be people in town who will make sure management works harder to make ends meet and also allow us to keep more of our hard earned dollar. Not all of the residents in this town make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and can absorb huge increases in property taxes year in and year out. It's time town management recognizes this. Have a great Thursday! Mark

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Hi, and welcome to my daily posting on quigleywh.blogspot.com. Come back each day to see what I have in relation to local, state, and national politics. I may even stray into other areas including sports, news and parenting (I might talk about my 2 kids). Anyway, check back often as I'll attempt to post here every day. Thanks, Mark