The beauty of hearing any proposal by the Chief or Lt. Baldwin is that it gives our pluperfect selectman; Smilin' Jack Sapia another chance to express his undying admiration, love, affection, and reverence for anything remotely "Life Safety" related. It is the position of the "Cell Tower Cabal" that the remote possibility of an officer finding himself in harm's way in Atkinson justifies any expense to give this group their christmas wish lists.
If Mr. Consistency is as concerned about "life safety" as he constantly states in selectmen's meetings then what has he done about the fire safety situation at the Atkinson Academy?
Last year; volunteers were offering to improve the little league field behind the Academy, build a parking lot for it to relieve the parking problems on Birch ln., and to build a fire access road from said parking lot down to the school. Mr. Sapia and Mr. Consentino, in an effort to screw Mr. Boyle who had agreed to put a live hydrant on woodlawn ave.(an area of the town with no water to fight fires) in return for not having to build a paved path through the woods with a 90 degree bend in it that will not even allow for the passage of our newest fire truck; went to the school board where with the help of our school board rep. Lt. Baldwin, they tried to stop the project!
During the discussion it was discovered that 2/3 of the Academy has no sprinklers, and you can not get a truck around the left side of the building because of the new playground.
When this was presented to Mr. Sapia, he ignored it as it was obviously much more important to try to screw mr. Boyle, than to protect our children(a clear "life safety" issue!!!)
So the end result of these um.... gentlemen's efforts? No improvements to the field, a cleared area for the parking lot, but no work done to complete it because they snubbed the people who were volunteering their time, no fire access road, AND NO SPRINKLERS FOR 2/3 OF THE SCHOOL WHERE 483 OF OUR CHILDREN SPEND THEIR DAYS!
Oh, and as a side issue to all of this our smug, self-important Town Moderator, Mr. Polito tried to help these gentlemen by suing the town he moderates for to get rid of the fire hydrant too. He was thrown out of court for lack of standing! This means his ground for filing the suit were not even sufficient to warrant the judge looking at them, bye bye Frank!
But this didn't slow Mr. Sapia down one bit; He voluntarily offered sworn testimony to Mr. Polito to aid him in his suit against the Town. This was reported in the Eagle-Tribune on election day 2006! Understand this point please. When someone sues the town the selectmen are sworn to represent the town and act in IT'S best interests. Yet Mr. Sapia violated his oath to offer sworn testimony to THE OTHER SIDE IN A SUIT AGAINST THE TOWN!
This is the man who holds himself out as mr. consistency, as the defender of the town. Atkinsonians IGNORE THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN THERE, HE ISNT IMPORTANT!
The need/want issue for the cell phone tower is mind boggling! What happened to Chief Consentino's statement that the town could put a whip on the Hog Hill tower and pay $50. a month rent - is Bill B. saying the chief didn't know wherof he spoke?
ReplyDeleteWhy are you so enthralled with Mr. Boyle? Do you realize that he could have donated some of the land from his new project for conservation, not just the easement that went with the project to begin with. How much wildlife habit was lost with his clear cut! This is also a great place for children at the Academy to experience nature. This is not to deny the other safety issues, which are related to the school board and not the selectman. Fortunately Mr. Baldwin's children do not attend the Acaddemy, but rather Pollard, so that might account for his lack of concern???
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