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Post by JudgeSmaels on Jan 14, 2005 9:40:18 GMT -5
It appears former Senator DiBella is casting his "shadow" upon the MDC. What a joke to say that this new position he created is to search for a CEO. The last CEO quit, because it has become a puppet position with Mr. DiBella as chairman. I'm sure tax hikes will be next for the betterment of it's members. Time to grab the old ankles.  |
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Post by SyZyGy on Feb 8, 2005 16:12:31 GMT -5
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION DISTRICT BOARD: William A. DiBella (Chairman)Dale A. Ryan (Vice Chairman) Staff Robert E. Moore, Interim Chief Executive Officer Renee Poirier, Assistant to Chief Executive Officer Dominic DiGangi, Chief Operating Officer... (and more "technically" sounding titles.....) (29 MEMBER) BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS www.themdc.com/board.htmREPRESENTING: COMMISSIONER: Bloomfield REICHIN, Albert F. East Hartford GENGA, Henry J. East Hartford GROTTOLE, John M. East Hartford KRONEN, Joseph H. East Hartford SALEMI, Pasquale J. Hartford AL-GHANI, D. Anwar Hartford BONAFONTE, Steven J. Hartford DiBELLA, William A. Hartford LILLY, Daniel E. Hartford MAZZULLA, Bruno W. Hartford MERO, Trude H. Hartford RITTER, Paul M., Rev. Hartford RIVERA, Hector M. Hartford RYAN, Dale A. Legislative HOFFMAN, Allen Legislative TAYLOR, Alvin E. Legislative VICINO, Richard W. Legislative WAREING, Richard F. Newington KLETT, Joseph Newington WRIGHT, Jeffrey A. Rocky Hill SWEEZY, Raymond West Hartford MAGNAN, Maureen West Hartford McGOLDRICK, Michael P. West Hartford O'BRIEN, James K. West Hartford PRICE, J. Lawrence Wethersfield COURNEEN, Martin B. Wethersfield McAULIFFE, John J., Jr. Windsor DENEEN, Kevin M. Windsor HOGAN, Mary B. CITIZEN MEMBERS: www.themdc.com/board.htm#cmCAMILLIERE, Daniel A. DelPONTE, Lawrence F. LaFONTAINE, Hernan MacDONALD, Lisa MULREADY, Richard T. SCHAECHTER, Harry B. |
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Post by JackAss on Feb 8, 2005 22:27:50 GMT -5
I'm sure our Wethersfield commissoners are looking out for our best intereset and not Mr. DiBella's. By the way how much for the swamp land in FLA.  |
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Post by SittingBull on Feb 18, 2005 12:42:54 GMT -5
Very interesting article in The Courant 2/17/05, about State Sen. Ernest Newton of Bridgeport, in the ongoing corruption tales of our politicians.
It mentions David Papandrea, the controversial appointment made by Bill DiBella at the MDC.
Just one more example of "the good ole boy" network at work. Just follow the $$$$$.
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Post by oldetowne on Feb 18, 2005 12:52:44 GMT -5
Here's the Post article:
Town officials: MDC plan needs work needs work
By:Ted Glanzer, Staff Writer02/17/2005
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The general mood of the 30 or so members of the public who weighed in on the Metropolitan District Commission's proposed $610 million Long-Term Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Control Plan at a public hearing on Tuesday night ran the gamut, ranging from optimistic, to skeptical to frustrated, to borderline anger.
Even though residents from all of the MDC's member towns (Hartford, Wethersfield, West Hartford, East Hartford, Bloomfield, Rocky Hill, Windsor and Newington) were invited, almost all of the approximately 100 people in attendance at the MDC's Training Center in Hartford were from Wethersfield and Hartford.
Wethersfield officials and residents generated the most buzz, stating that the plan did not adequately address the decades-old saga of sewage overflow to the Wethersfield Cove and did not resolve the problem of residential sewage backup.
According to one estimate, raw sewage enters the Cove between 30 and 60 times a year because of CSOs - temporary discharges of untreated wastewater and rainwater from the MDC sewer system.
CSOs occur when Hartford's combined sewer pipes fill beyond capacity with both sewage and overflow to local water bodies including the Connecticut River, Park River, Folly Brook in Wethersfield and Wethersfield Cove.
Wethersfield Mayor Russ Morin said that he "was not behind" the plan's proposed elimination of CSOs to the Cove due to a one-year storm - a storm that is expected to occur once a year, accounting for approximately 2.5 inches of rainfall in a four-hour period.
The one-year storm proposal would most likely only reduce, not eliminate, CSOs to the Cove.
Morin and town councilors Donna Hemmann, Matthew Forrest and Kitch Breen Czernicki each stated that the plan should be able to peak at an 18-year storm - a much heavier storm that has a 5.5 percent chance of occurring in a given year.
"One year is not an acceptable option for us," Town Manager Bonnie Therrien said. "If we go to bonding, let's do this right . . . If this proposal were in front of voters in Wethersfield today, it would not pass."
Last November, the Wethersfield Town Council passed a resolution that first calls for storm runoff from the South End of Hartford to be routed to the Connecticut River.
A second provision of the resolution involves the construction of a water treatment facility near the Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility.
The measures are necessary because the Cove, which is featured on the town seal, has unique historic and geographic relevance to the town, Morin said.
"It is the most important body of water to the town," Morin said.
Nevertheless, the plan discussed on Tuesday night did not feature any of the provisions set forth in the November resolution.
Morin and Forrest highlighted that Wethersfield would be a "team player" in working with the MDC to reach a satisfactory common ground.
"We want to be part of the solution," Forrest said.
Toward that end, town officials said that it will contribute $10 million that it received in state grants for the Cove clean-up project to offset some of the costs.
Many Wethersfield residents who spoke during the hearing called for zero overflow while wistfully recalling days long gone in which people sailed, fished and swam in the Cove.
One gentleman said that his great-grandfather used to cut ice from the Cove and use it to cool off drinks. Those days of beauty and utility, according to those who spoke Tuesday night, have given way to refuse, raw sewage and foul odors.
Other residents - weary of years of fruitless negotiations and plans that have fallen by the wayside - took a harder line on the MDC's approach to the Cove's CSO issues.
One speaker said that his friends from other towns know of Wethersfield not for its historic sections or beautiful land, but for the sewage overflow to the Cove.
"We're known for the crap in the Cove and it hurts deeply," Rocco Orsini, president of the Wethersfield Taxpayers Association, lamented. "We put a man on the moon and we can't handle our own raw sewage."
"No one has to live with sewage in their home," resident Mary Dobruck added. "The problem has been with the sewer infrastructure."
Cutting even further to the chase, one resident stated that the town should have taken matters into its own hands years ago.
"We should have sued [the MDC] a long time ago," resident Robert Young said.
The lone speaker not from Wethersfield or Hartford, former West Hartford mayor and town councilor Rob Bouvier, said that he was skeptical not of the plan, but of MDC's management structure.
The MDC's lack of accountability at the management level, particularly if something goes awry, is troublesome, Bouvier said.
"I would like to see the project done right. [But] this could be Big Dig Two," Bouvier said, referring to the colossal construction project in Boston that ran into massive cost overruns and structural problems. "I implore the MDC to put accountability in place."
The long-term CSO plan itself was selected from a number of proposals and aims to reduce the impact of CSOs by implementing the following: decreasing the amount of storm water that enters the pipes when it rains; increasing the pipe network and treatment system capacity to handle more flow; and capturing overflow from the pipes in below ground storage facilities to temporarily store CSOs until they can be treated.
The plan, which was developed with input from a Citizens Action Committee, was selected over several others because of its flexibility and its cost relative to the overall objectives it seeks to meet.
Though the ball appears to finally be rolling with this proposal, residents of MDC's member towns should not expect results any time in the near future. First, the plan must be updated to reflect the comments made at the public hearing.
The plan must then be submitted to the various state (and possible federal) regulatory agencies for review, resulting in negotiations between the agencies and the MDC.
Finally, there must be a district-wide referendum involving the MDC's eight member towns to approve the project.
Even if the plan obtains all the necessary approvals and funding, the project will take 20 years to complete, according to an MDC official.
If the plan is approved, the MDC's member towns will share the $610 million cost.
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Post by JudgeSmaels on Mar 15, 2005 22:47:59 GMT -5
I think were lucky to have Bill DiBella in charge of the MDC when in the next few years they are planning on spending $1 Billion to upgrade the system.
This should be like our own "Big Dig" and maybe we'll have a tunnel under the cove or maybe a tunnel to the bank vault.
Talk about the fox in charge of the hen house.
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Post by oldetowne on Mar 16, 2005 7:22:30 GMT -5
If you're looking for someone with experience at spending our tax dollars, I think Billy D has everyone beat. He also showed a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of Wethersfield during all of his years as our State Senator.
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Post by SyZyGy on Mar 9, 2008 5:47:44 GMT -5
Mayor Targets MDC Chairman - AgainBy VANESSA DE LA TORRE Hartford Courant March 07, 2008 Republican Mayor Jeff Wright is pushing the town council to issue a resolution next week declaring that the town has no confidence in Democrat William A. DiBella, head of the Metropolitan District Commission.
Christopher Banach, a Democrat on the Newington council, said the resolution might be a 'moot point' because top Democrats in the state House of Representatives are pushing legislation that would bar Capitol lobbyists from serving on quasi-public, local and state government boards. DiBella, a registered lobbyist, would be forced to resign from the district if the law passes.
One no-confidence vote came last May, soon after a federal civil jury in New Haven upheld allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that DiBella, a former state Senate majority leader, aided and abetted securities law violations in a 1998 state pension investment involving disgraced former state Treasurer Paul Silvester. Federal regulators argued that DiBella did no substantial work to earn a $374,500 fee in the deal.
The Wethersfield Town Council will hold a public hearing March 17 on a proposed no-confidence declaration. Billy and Johny should have shared quality time together long ago - naturally at the expense of the State!
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Post by standish on Mar 10, 2008 11:11:14 GMT -5
Who's Johnny?
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Post by SyZyGy on Mar 11, 2008 18:52:26 GMT -5
The former Gov. of State of CT:
John Grosvenor Rowland
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Post by cruzrt on Mar 18, 2008 13:29:47 GMT -5
Who knows whether the Town Council did the no confidence vote against DiBella last night?
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Post by SyZyGy on Mar 18, 2008 21:22:30 GMT -5
Resolution failed.
Bipartisan details?
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Post by cruzrt on Mar 19, 2008 10:30:38 GMT -5
6 of our 9 councillors refused to vote 'Yes' or 'No' on the resolution. I did not intend to elect a Council that would refuse to act!!! I certainly will remember this activity at the next election. Billy DiBella casts a very long shadow, 7 of the 9 know that.
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Post by Dr.Ken Sokolowski on Mar 19, 2008 14:47:15 GMT -5
Like the vote or the maneuvering before the vote, or not, it was an very interesting interaction between political personalities and local politics. I happened to be there to witness the entire show (yes, my wife spoke during the public hearing in favor of the resolution, just to be up front).
There were only two votes in favor of the resolution; get this: Hemmann and Walsh (bipartisanship?). Kotkin and Montinieri (for "business" reasons, I believe) recused themselves and actually left the platform - absenting themselves. Forrest during the "discussion" of the resolution, tried to act like Perry Mason attempting to grill Hemman, that is until Console objected to the Chair, forcing the Chair to finally rein in Forrest.
Console voted nay. The remaining four, Cascio, Roberts, Forrest and Adil abstained, which as the Clerk points out is equivalent to a null vote, though not a nay vote. So you could say that the needed majority could not be met with just two aye votes. Then Kotkin and Montinieri returned to the meeting.
Like it or not, it is, as it has been, in the lap of the MDC BOD. I don't expect DiBella or the Board to change his or their minds.
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Post by JudgeSmaels on Mar 19, 2008 22:06:07 GMT -5
A classic case of "diving for cover" when politicians jump over the line. How can anyone in good conscience support Billy Boy with the baggage he has.
It goes to show you, how many rolls he buttered over the years.
This is a lesson to all voters, forget all the BS that comes out of all politicians mouths and watch how they VOTE!!!!!! PRICELESS ;D ;D
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