The awards, and well wishes, and the "people's business"....all great!
Congratulations to Mitch Rowe on being appointed to the Planning Board. What a great addition!
There was some public input, and an explanation as to what the grant from Maffei will be used for - and I appreciate the explanation-although I'm still confused on what the bond money was spent on, and why money was spent on engineering fees for that "restroom facility at Town Hall campus" that is now not going to be done? . The Supervisor did state that the majority of work that needed to be done when they "identified" those issues at the Public Safety Building (from the linked blog are the "Issues") will be funded under the grant from Maffei. Does that mean that the grant is paying back the bond or does it mean the bond money was used for something else and the grant is paying for the PS building work?
I'm sorry, but I'm still not clear on what the bond money was spent on...if it was spent at all?
Anywho.....Public Input....During Mr. Barone's public input, after he thanked the board for their years of service and the good things that they have done for the Town-and gave his opinion on discontinuing Images (the town newsletter),-he brought up (at the 23:15 mark) that blaming a loss on negative campaigning from "the other side" is a cop out.
The Supervisor asks Mr. Barone when he was done with his input: "Have you ever heard those words out of my mouth?" and then she says, "for the record, I have not said that negative campaigning has been a part of my loss."
Mr. Barone probably did not hear those words out of her mouth....but the reporter for the article clearly did hear those words out of her mouth, because he put these little things called quotation marks around the words that she did say, and that is called a quote.
D&C article the day after the election - specifically saying that the "other side" were misinformed, negative, and disturbing:
When Heyman, Bello and Evans were elected in 2005, it was the first time Democrats had controlled Irondequoit town government in more than 25 years.
She said that this time around, she was done in by negative campaigning.
"The people have spoken," Heyman said. "We ran a campaign that was clean, honest and positive. I can't change the misinformation, the negativity and the very disturbing campaigning we saw from the other side. Tonight proves that negative campaigning with ... misinformation can turn out to be very successful."
So, um.....yeah. For the record? You did say it. Out loud. To a reporter. Who quoted you.
BTW - I really did like all of the board taking the time out to thank each other, and adding their own little personal touches....but the exchange I liked the best was between Stephanie and Debbie when Stephanie was thanking Debbie and telling her how she enjoyed working with her. I thought it was really sincere and genuine....and just....very nice and I liked it. :) Thanks for that!
Merry Christmas to you ladies, and good luck in the New Year! (Sincerely!)
