Watching The Show

To the Editor:

Newtown has its own version of the traveling circus. All you have to do is attend a selectmen’s, Legislative Council, or Fairfield Hills Authority meeting and watch the show.

This whole thing evolves around Fairfield Hills (FFH) and the past administration, and what they didn’t do, and what they did do. To begin with, the minority selectman Herb Rosenthal still acts and thinks like he is the first selectman. Call him the ring leader, with his staff of clowns on Poverty Hollow Road, Castle Hill Drive, Main Street, Queen Street, Hattertown Road, Country Squire Road, just to list a few. It is clear that the only reason Herb took the minority position is to cover his butt for all of the games he played at FFH, and to formulate a run for first selectman. His behavior at these meetings is embarrassing, and outright disgusting, along with his side kick.

Will they ever give Mr Borst the opportunity to fulfill his role as first selectman?

Unfortunately, FFH is accounting for 90 percent of the town’s business at these meetings. These self-indulged, ego-driven people just don’t get it. What happened to the process of working together for the positive benefit of the Town of Newtown? You should all resign and let’s start over with new people. Now the fun starts. O&G is not too thrilled with the town, in that the town wants a private developer to demolish two buildings and install the required parking for the new ball field, youth academy, and the so-called town hall, leaving O&G out of potential revenue, which they were counting on.

They claim to have two signed leases, with not one penny paid to the town so far as required by the leases.

The town attorney is recommending that the Newtown Youth Academy, and its nonprofit status do the demolition and parking lots, only to get out of paying the prevailing wages under the Davis Bacon Act; great legal advise. Guess what, the town still owns the property and the buildings, and there is no chance of that happening.

I think it is time that people stop amusing themselves with reading The Bee letters to the editor and start going to meetings; you never know, there might be someone in this community that can bring some positive flow to these meetings. Meanwhile, in order to resolve some of the issues, use the bond money for the infrastructure and parking, scrap the present contract for the town hall, do it right, get rid of value engineering, and construction manager at risk, and go with the proven AIA [American Institute of Architects] procedures on construction projects. O&G talked the last administration into this, it didn’t work in Bethel in ’06; O&G’s contract with the Bethel School Board was terminated in October 2006. All they did was drive eight miles to the Town of Newtown, and look what we have. Oh, maybe an external audit is due; then everyone will know where the money went.

Frederick Moran

59 Queen Street, Newtown                                                June 4, 2008