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The questions that nobody wants to ask the First Selectman,
and the answers that we don't want to hear!
Questions:
Q #1: Why did the selectman sit on the sidelines and not
ask the town consultants to evaluate our town becoming
a super waste and recycle site for the State of Connecticut's
Road and Highway Improvement Projects?
A: "My staff is handling that."
Q #2: Why didn't we ask for and receive
tax income from demolition waste brought into the town
of Woodbury from outside communities?
A: "It's zoning's job to control those things."
The Tax Assessor's office is too busy to explore other
sources of income, they have to take care of the homeowners
first.
Q #3: Why did we take 10 years and ten months to get
a grant for a sidewalk which the taxpayers have not been
shown the final plans of or do not know what the bottom
line cost will be?
A: "The State Highway Dept. has been very difficult
to deal with." We also have run out of time to explain
things to the taxpayers.
Q #4: Why did we tell everyone that the town should build
a new police station on Middle Road Turnpike?
A: "The police need to have their own desk for their portable
computers and there is not enough space available without
using the other empty 2/3rds of their building."
Q #5: Why would you write a local resident and tell them
that the town would fix the river bank problem behind
their house?
A: We are going to get a state grant to cover the cost
of improving this private property, which just happens
to be adjacent to our town planner's yard.
Q #6: Why did we paint one of the large town dump trucks
blue?
A: We wanted to have matching colors with the Director
of Public Works' pickup truck.
Q #7: Why are we thinking of buying the telephone building
and renovating it for a total cost of $1,500,000?
The
Telephone building,
without a good backup septic system
A: We need more room for the 14 seniors that use the
current facility all day and more space for new unreadable
regulation, their promotion, their implementation and
their rate enforcement.
Q #8: Why does the town continue to allow O&G to dig
as deep as they want to in the two quarries in town without
providing a finished site plan and it's ultimate use?
A: This is really a zoning board problem. The First
Selectman can only raise questions to the town lawyers
after the issue has incurred court cost.
Q #9: Why haven't you addressed the traffic problems
on Main Street?
A: "Well, Duncan McDougall does not want any more
traffic to go by his house. During K. Campbell's time,
I was part of that administration. We chose not to recommend
any changes on Main Street traffic. I still think everything
will work out over a period of time, don't you?"
Q #10: Why haven't we seen any of the speeding traffic
reports that have been generated by the multi-thousand
dollar portable radar?
Watch
Your speed
A: We have been trying to hide the places that the people
are speeding so they can't find them.
Q #11: Why did we buy 80 acres of land from Frank Shepard
and not get use of any of the roads that would give us
an entrance to all the buildings that we bought?
A: The only time that we can't get into our buildings
and fields is in the spring when the fields are too wet
to drive on and/or when the land is all flooded. We can
always build roads across the flood lands.
Q #12: Why do we now have an emergency on the police
station's roof, when the rain has been leaking in there
for two years or more?
A: We have 12 policemen now and its election time and
that's 12 votes, no we have 6 policemen and 12 cars.
Q #13: Why has the blue tarp that is covering the Hotchkissville
Fire Department building been on there for a year and
a half?
A: You know how difficult the board of fire commissioners,
the finance board and the building commission is to work
with!
Q #14: Why haven't there been any improvements to our
sidewalk in town for two years?
Outside
contractors getting the job done
A: We have three weeks before election
time and our highway superintendent has been working for
two weeks with the whole town crew to relocate two catch
basins across from the Post Office. I have been assured
the rest of the job will be done quickly and in time for
the election, as we have contracted it out!
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