BATTLE AT CROW'S LANE: Well, this story has everything. Victims. Villains. Reports of sick residents, including children. Promises of state investigations. A very public meeting with Deval Patrick. It goes on and on and on, and potentially will do the same through 2009. This is a problem with no clear fix, but I think Mayor Moak and the council have held up pretty well in this fight against New Ventures. It's anybody's guess as to how this thing will turn out, but the issue is scheduled to have its date in court come this spring.
THE SOLAR PANEL DEAL:
Charlie Brown, you're the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem.
-Linus Van Pelt
This quote from the Charlie Brown Christmas special sums up my feelings about the mayor's push to get solar panels atop the Nock Middle School. How can a seemingly wonderful thing like Solar Panel get twisted into a problem? Well, it appears to be one-part rushing into a deal with vendor the city knew little about with a dash of having a guy who might benefit from the deal serve as the city's advisor. Just not a good combination for the sake of appearances and, clearly, performance.
The city finally moved on from the vendor, EyeOn, after the company lost its backers. According to the most recent report from the Daily News, the city was supposed to have received new bids yesterday from several interested--and economically viable--vendors. Here's hoping the terms are a little more favorable given the current climate.
The mayor's haste is due mostly to his desire to score $1.6 million in rebates from the state. It's hard to argue with the pursuit of free (i know, it's not really free) money, but the rush didn't serve us too well the first time.
BTW, we got an answer to the question we posed in our earlier post. See "The Answer."
SENIOR CENTER FINDS A HOME: Not much else to say.
SENIOR CENTER FINDS A HOME: Not much else to say.
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We heard that the court date is February for New Ventures. That's why he is not removing his piles at Wood Waste in Everett, although, he is still taking in materials at the facility.
Is there anyway to confirm this February date? It was the Everett mayor that made that announcement at a Board of Alderman's meeting.
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