Board of Aldermen Page 15
June 28, 2016
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES
O-16-014
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Alderman Lori Wilshire
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman David Schoneman
ENABLING THE SAMPLING OF BEER OR WINE AT FARMERS’ MARKETS
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Mr. Jim Cutter, 86 Palm Street
Mr. Cutter read aloud a letter dated June 28, 2016, addressed to Alderman McCarthy and is attached to these
minutes.
Ms. Paula Johnson, 15 Westborn Drive
| have a question. | thought anything with new business had to come to the end of the meeting that we couldn’t
discuss it at the beginning of the meeting like earlier this evening. First of all, Alderman Clemons, it is the will of
the people that we have the spending cap and it was a teacher that changed it that made it a little bit worse now
so you would have a little bit more money if he didn’t change the dynamics of it and the City Clerk’s office was a
little bit more informed with the public on that spending cap. We are starting to have a revolution in this country;
they already had it in Britain because the will of the people is being stomped on.
| am here for R-16-048, the relocation of the David W. Deane Skateboard Park. How many people go and walk
in Mine Falls Park? Five, okay, | live by Stello’s Stadium and when | was on the Board | was against Stello’s
Stadium because of the noise. We were promised everything by Streeter and by the time Streeter left all of his
promises were broken. It has become very congested in the that area, we’ve got the Y, Conway Ice and | know
they want another sheet of ice and | hope we sell the street department over there to Conway at market value
and not for peanuts. Companies pay their fair share and it offsets our taxes and when they don’t pay their fair
share then we have to pick up the cost to maintain. So now we are going to put in the David W. Deane
Skateboard Park.
| am a nimby and | have spoken to a lot of the neighbors who are also concerned about this. We have a Board
of Public Works commissioner who lives in the neighborhood. If you look at the congestion over there now, we
have the high school, the police department, the buses; we have Stello’s in the fall and in the spring that’s very
active and we’ve got the Y.__| have some pictures of where everybody parks over there to go into Mine Falls
and now we are going to have people go skateboarding over there. | guess the question is how much can one
neighborhood take. They park around the oval and by the side of the salt barn. We have a dirt road that goes
into Mine Falls that we have to share with bicyclists and cars. We share it with people who are not accountable
for keeping their dogs on a leash and the DPW started to put up signs but they didn’t put up the ordinance with
the signs. These dogs are off leash and they can bite someone. Now we are going to cram in the skateboard
park. Because none of us are direct abutters we were never notified of what was going on. If | just didn’t
happen to ask anybody about this, which was Director Fauteux, | probably wouldn’t have known that the first
reading was tonight. Since | can’t make all of the meetings | figured | would voice my opinion about this. My
concern as well as a lot of the neighbors concern is with the neighborhood, who is going to come into the
