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Cape Cod Commission; Yaktivists Extrodinaire

FROM THE CAPE COD COMMISSION’S WEBSITE;

 

Of the 57 coastal embayments on Cape Cod, 46 of their watersheds have been assessed for the protection and restoration of declining water quality due to eutrophication.

Eutrophication, the process that happens when water bodies receive excess nutrients causing an overgrowth of algae and plants, results from many factors.

The single highest contributor to the eutrophication of coastal embayments on Cape Cod is nitrogen-containing compounds in the water draining from on-site septic systems.

Nitrogen is a waste product of our bodies that is not removed by septic systems.

Nitrogen from these systems is released to the groundwater, which runs underground and drains into coastal water bodies.

The excess nitrogen in that water ends up spurring excess algae growth, which severely impairs coastal water quality, diminishes the growth of eel grass, and reduces the productivity of shellfish beds.

Approximately 85% of the wastewater flow into Cape Cod’s embayments comes from on-site septic systems. Properly functioning septic systems do reduce the release of solids, which protects public health; however, these systems are not designed to remove contaminants such as nitrogen, which passes readily from the septic leach field into the ground.

Cape Cod’s very permeable, sandy soil readily accepts the water released from septic systems, which eventually enters the groundwater and makes its way to our coastal embayments, impairing water quality.

Barnstable County’s regional government is a leader in wastewater planning for Cape Cod.

Several departments and associated groups – namely, the Cape Cod Commission, the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative, and the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment – have worked many decades to raise awareness of issues, to perform necessary scientific assessments, and to plan for the protection and remediation of water quality problems on Cape Cod. With the support of Barnstable County’s executive branch (the County Commissioners) and legislative branch (the Assembly of Delegates), these departments of regional government work with state and federal partner agencies and the government offices of Cape Cod’s 15 municipalities to identify wastewater problems and recommend solutions to keep Cape Cod’s ecology and economy healthy.

 

 

Cape Cod Commission Executive Director, Paul Niedzieki and Wastewater Collaborative Director, Andrew Gottlieb statement that 85% of the nutrients loaded into Cape embayments is from Title V septic systems flies in the face of the Massachusetts Estuaries Project completed studies.

 

The MEP Report for West Falmouth Harbor that includes a wastewater treatment plant reported that only

 

• 21% of the nitrogen loading is from Title V septic systems.

 

• 65% of the nitrogen comes from the Waste Water Treatment Facility (WWTF).
• 2% from lawn fertilizers
• 6% from stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces like asphalt and concrete
• 4% from water body surfaces, and
• 2% from naturally vegitated surfaces.

 

Four years ago the Cape Cod Commission had an opportunity to practice what it preaches on wastewater but chose not to.

 

The YMCA on Route 132 in West Barnstable is situated on soil the preponderance of which is impermeable clay (65%).

 

When the facility decided to add 18,563 square feet of new construction on top of its 23,131 square-foot structure making a new combined total of 41,694 square feet, not including a gigantic new parking area, the Cape Cod Commission granted the "Y" a hardship exemption. 

The Cape Cod Commission did note;

 

“The proposed addition to the YMCA has the potential to impact regional water resources due to activities associated with wastewater and storm water flows.” (WR3)

 

 

“There will be a significant (40%) increase in the design flow for wastewater based on an increase in the locker room area.”

“This is substantiated by a comparison of the existing Title V design flows and existing water use records.”

“Wastewater will be disposed of in a traditional Title V design septic system without the addition of a denitrifying system.” 

“The YMCA agrees to connect to town sewer as soon as the extension main becomes available in this area.” (WR4)

 

"Nitrogen loading calculations performed by Coastal Engineering dated March 30, 2006 for the project shows an increase in nitrogen loading. however it remains below 10 parts per million.” (WR5)

 

Storm water will be disposed of onsite.

 

Clean roof runoff will directly infiltrate via  an abandoned  leaching  area,  with  an  overflow  provided  to  a  depressed  wooded  area.

Storm water from paved surfaces will flow through a series of connected catch basins to a vegetated retention area equipped with a subsurface overflow area." (WR5)

 

"Storm water will be disposed of onsite."

 

"Clean roof runoff will directly infiltrate via  an abandoned  leaching  area,  with  an  overflow  provided  to  a  depressed  wooded  area."

 

"Storm water from paved surfaces will flow through a series of connected catch basins to a vegetated retention area equipped with a subsurface overflow area."  (WR6)

 

 

 

 

Despite the fact the YMCA is in the Marine Water Recharge Area to Barnstable  Harbor, and in the Protection Area to a Public Water Supply, the Cape Cod Commission failed to implement the slightest mitigation when it granted its exemption.

 

 

The Massachusetts Estuaries technical team had not completed its nutrient loading study for Cape Cod Bay located less than a mile down-gradient of the YMCA.  

 

While the YMCA was in the process of doubling its size and customers, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation widened Route 132 from two to four lanes a half-mile south of the YMCA (Route 6).

 

The state advised Klimmboobs to install sewer pipes simultaneous to the road expansion.

 

Klimmboobs did install a forced main from the sewer plant on Bearses Way to Exit 6 contemplating the dumping of a half-million gallons per day of effluent on seven acres of the former McManus property, but not an inch of sewer pipe to enable the YMCA to keep its promise to connect to the sewer plant.

 

Take a look in pictures of what Niedzwieki wrought at the YMCA;

 

 

 A year after the Klimmboobs, Niedzwieki and Gottlieb failed to press the YMCA, the Cape Cod Community College, the Gurley Affordable Housing Project and the Burger King to connect to the sewer while Iyannough Road was being widened and a forced main installed, 320 Stewarts Creek homes were forced to spend $25,000 each and all taxpayers ceded their Room/Motel/Meals Sales Taxes to connect these homes to the sewer.

 

Niedzwieki figured its better to connect 1,000 people who flush toilets in super-sandy Stewarts Creek each day to the sewer than the 15,000 transients who use toilets in muddy clay West Barnstable.

 

As you can see waste and storm water generated from the YMCA flows freely down hill into Cape Cod Bay that somehow has escaped scrutiny by the Massachusetts Estuaries people.  Niedzwieki isn't worth $25,000 a year which means he was overpaid by $135,000 last year. 

Fred Chirigotis spells “team” with an “I”.

Since each Barnstable voter is limited to one vote for only one of the thirteen councilors who make up the legislative branch of town hall government, his or her willingness to sit idly by while the totally greedy, ruthless, inhumane, self-obsessed, exploitative, and dishonest Fred Chirigotis serves as president of the town council for four consecutive years is bizarre.

 

 

Either Chirigotis is the biggest "hog" of all time, or he wants us to believe all eighteen councilors who walked through the hearing room doors since he was first elected president were unfit to serve as the body’s leader.

Past council presidents have served one, and occasionaly two, terms before passing the baton out of common courtesy.

 

 

Chirigotis' refusal to cede his power is prima facie evidence that he is a self-centered, spoiled, greedy, and materialisticly-orientated pig.

 

Instead of being an appreciative member of the town’s leadership team his ravenous, never-satisfied attitude, and his more, more, gimme, gimme, attitude has vaporized the hearts, souls, and concerns of voters throughout town.

 

Chirigotis' insatiable appetite for putting his wants and desires ahead of the needs and feelings of others has disaffected all voters.

The folks who authored Barnstable’s town charter twenty-three years ago went to great lengths to explain that a new manager must be hired within six months after the previous manager became disabled, died, or given the axe.

 

Section 4-1  of the Town Charter; Town Manager; Appointment, Qualifications, Term of Office

 

 

  The town council shall appoint by a majority vote of the full council a town manager.  The town manager shall be a person of proven administrative ability, especially qualified by education and training with prior experience as a city or town manager, or an assistant city or town manager or the equivalent public or private sector level experience.  The town council may from time to time establish such additional qualifications as deemed necessary and appropriate.

 

  Section 4-5  Vacancy in Office

 

Any vacancy in the office of town manager shall be filled as soon as possible by the town council.  Pending appointment of the town manager or the filling of any vacancy, the council shall forthwith appoint some other qualified person to perform the duties of the town manager.  The appointment of the acting town manager shall be for a term not to exceed three months, provided however, a renewal, not to exceed an additional three months may be provided.

Former Town Manager, John Klimm quit the job last November and began working as the town manager in Portsmouth, RI in January.

 

 

Assistant Town Manager, Tom Lynch was appointed Acting Town Manager on December 15, 2011.

 

 

The Charter postulates Lynch can only serve two ninety-day terms as Acting Town Manager, and then the temporary job must be given to someone else.

 

 

Chirigotis is insistent that Lynchie Boy get the permanent job.

 

At the March 1, 2012 council hearing his hand-picked Town Manager Search Committee authored incestuous Agenda Item 2012-070 that limited the search for qualified town manager candidates to town hall employees. 

 

 

The measure was defeated after three committee members, Councilors Cullum, Rapp, and Dagwan switched their support for the measure.

 

 

Fifty days have gone by since the 03/01/2012 council hearing have elapsed and the town manager job opening has yet to be posted on the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) website.

 

The town of Barnstable pays $100,000 in annual dues to the MMA which includes job opening postings.

 

Chirigotis has been greedy his entire life and the fact there isn't enough time to hire a permanent town manager other than Lynch, proves he hasn't changed.

 

 

As a child Chirigotis' “gimmies” were so toxic his mother paid kids to play with him.

 

 

Even if the job was posted today any and all qualified applicant interviews will be lip service. 

 

 

June 2nd, 2012 will be the 60th anniversary of my enlistment in the U.S. Navy, and knowing Fred Chirigotis and Demetrius Atsalis tells me the adage

 

"if there's a Greek in the shower and you drop the soap; leave it"

 

is based in fact, not myth.

 

Remember Demetrius Atsalis' anonymous telephone call to the Calvary Baptist Church threatening to take away its non-profit status shutting down its 500 people per day soup kitchen?

 

 

 

Barnstable property owners are paying Paul Niedswieke and Andrew Gottlieb millions find a way to stuff 10 pounds of crap into a 5-pound bag

 

Niedzweiki, who is on the books at a salary of $119,000 as Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission actually earned $160,000 last year, while Gottlieb, who lives in Wellesley, is the $75,000 part time Director of the Barnstable County Waste Protection Collaborative.

 

 

Both are getting testy in their efforts to push their wastewater action plan even though the MEP is light years behind in finishing its Southeastern MA nutrient study.

 

Expanding the sewer plant is even more problematic when you consider that after twenty years of barnstorming all seven villages for a place to dump effluent generated at the Hyannis sewer plant, former DPW Director, Tom Mullen, and his successor, Mark Ells, have yet to construct a single new sand bed.

 

Klimmboobs did manage to acquire seven acres to site a high-pressure effluent injection system in West Barnstable (the former McManus property on Route 132 in West Barnstable), but since the soil in West Barnstable and Barnstable villages has far too much clay to support even a modest Title V three-bedroom home septic system on one-acre of land, the odds of that parcel being used to dump effluent are so high Lynchmobsters, nee Klimmboobs, haven't even applied for a groundwater discharge permit from the DEP after six years.

 

 

If West Barnstable has so much clay, why were the YMCA, the Cape Cod Conservatory, the Burger King rest stop, and the Gurley Affordable Housing Development, where 15,000 people defecate and urninate each day, permitted to build without a sewer to connect to?

 

 

The MEP has been developing total daily maximum nitrogen loads (TDML’s) for twelve years on the Cape and Islands, but not in the marshlands of Cape Cod Bay in Sandwich and Barnstable.

 

 

Nevertheless Niedzweiki and Gottlieb are getting testy in their efforts to jam their sewer expansion plans down our throats at costs from $8 to $15 billion.

 

 

Four years ago, when the state widened Route 132 from Route 6 to Phinney’s Lane, the Klimmboobs were given the opportunity to install a sewer main from the latter-mentioned developments on Route 132 to the Hyannis sewer plant less than two miles down the road, but they didn’t.

 

 

Ironically instead of connecting the 15,000 people to the sewer plant, the Klimmboobs installed an underground forced main from the sewer plant to the McManus property in hopes of injecting a half-million gallons a day of effluent through the clay into the groundwater that flows into Cape Cod Bay.

 

Three years later the Klimmboobs forced 320 homes (less than 1,000 people) to connect to the sewer.

 

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

 

 

ANSWER; Without an outfall pipe to dump effluent, the sewer plant can only expand to a few more homes.  

 

 

Neither Niedzwieki nor Gottlieb have asked the legislature to amend its Sanctuaries Act that prohibits the construction of any new outfall pipes.

 

 

Together Gottlieb and Niedzwieki equal ONE Rube Goldberg, Mack and Meyer, for Hire, and two of the world's most prolific master baiters.

 

 

Barnstable voters can save themselves $1.2 million each hear by getting out of the  Cape Cod Commission and the Barnstable County Regional Government.  

 

 

Niedzwieki, Gottlieb, and Tom Lynch, et al are NUTS.

 

 

In case you missed this week's Michael Bailey item in this week's Barnstable Enterprise, I've posted the story below;

 

By MICHAEL C. BAILEY

 

As far as Barnstable County Commissioner William Doherty is concerned, when it comes to the issue of wastewater management on Cape Cod, "the time for action is long overdue."

 

That is why the Barnstable County Board of County Commissioners recently charged Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative, and Paul J. Niedzwiecki, executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, with exploring a possible, if somewhat controversial, way to finally take action.

 

This week Mr. Gottlieb presented to the commissioners an overview of his and Mr. Niedzwiecki's upcoming work on crafting a regional wastewater plan.

 

That overview was drafted by Mr. Gottlieb, working with the water protection collaborative's governing board and steering committee.

 

"The assumption that's in this document and. guides the whole thing is that as a region we have a water quality problem in our estuaries," Mr. Gottlieb said, "and that we have an obligation—and I don't care whether you view that as a legal, moral, or economic obligation—as a region we have an obligation to deal with the problem."

 

That's the only thing that's assumed in this document," he continued.

 

 

"There's no assumption in here about the outcome of the analysis; there's no assumption about which is going to be the best most cost-effective way to proceed."

 

The county commissioners specifically charged Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Niedzwiccki with exploring a recommendation from the Special Commission on County Governance to create what was initially dubbed a "Cape Cod wastewater authority."

 

However, the organization's exact scope, composition, powers, administrative structure, and mission are the details Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Niedzwiecki will attempt to puzzle out over the next several months, with extensive input from the public.

 

Mr. Gottlieb refuted claims that the creation of this regional entity was already a done deal.

 

"A lot of people sort of jumped to the conclusion that this is a process to bless an answer that's already been derived," he said. "That's never been the case [although} there's been some corners that have sort of already decided what we're going to conclude...they've sort of set up their straw man and are very busy knocking it down."

 

 

"I've already made a conclusion," Mr. Doherty said. "We're going to solve the problem. We're going to do something."

 

The process will include a cost analysis of a regionalized approach versus a town-by-town approach so when the process moves into the outreach phase.

 

Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Niedzwiecki have "some facts and numbers that will allow, the region to have a fact-based conversation about which alternative is best."

 

Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Niedzwiecki plan to report back to the commissioners on their progress on a quarterly basis until they submit their final report, which they expect to file at the end of the year.

 

 

Along the way, they plan to hold several public meetings that will offer presentations by the collaborative, followed immediately by discussions with any members of the public in attendance."

 

The objective of this approach is to provide opportunities for broad input as issues are being considered," Mr. Gottlieb wrote in his overview, "not at the end of the process when a proposed alternative has been developed."

 

Mr. Gottlieb said meetings will be videotaped and posted online along with any relevant documents. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where Rich Cawley goes success is sure to follow…

Before Cawley built the Rectrix Aerodrome in Hyannis, Barnstable Airport’s annual Jet Fuel Sales Receipts were $760,200.

 

 

In 2009 Cawley’s influence on private jet activity increased the airport's jet fuel receipts 150% ($1,970,000).

 

The Airport Commission’s gluttonous monopoly on jet fuel (ran out of jet fuel on the Fourth of July weekend in 2007), 3% sales tax on Cawley, and local copycats give-away-programs caused Rectrix not only to sue, but also to cease expanding in Hyannis.

 

 

Cawley invested millions building airport structures that created hundreds and hundreds of jobs in Sarasota, New York, Bedford (Hanscom), and now Worcester.  

 

While the sky is the limit for Cawley, Barnstable Airport's omnivorous kamikaze style management resulted in a brand new $45 million airport terminal/art gallery despite a 61% loss in passengers.

 

In the year prior to the emergence of the Rectrix Aerodrome in Hyannis the airport had ZERO FAA grant receipts, yet managed a $1.6 million net profit.

 

In 2010 the airport managed to lose $750,000, but got $3 million in Obamacare grant receipts to keep its head above water.

 

Rectrix is still operating out of Hyannis, but is in a holding pattern thanks to greedy lawyers, piggish airport commissioners and a totally incompetent staff.

 

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Barnstable's loss are Sarasota, Trenton, Hanscom and Worcester's gains.

 

Following is a two-month-old Massport press release;

 

 

Massport Approves General Aviation Development at Worcester Regional Airport and L.G. Hanscom Field

 

Massport Approves General Aviation Development at Worcester Regional Airport and L.G. Hanscom Field

 

 

New Fixed Base-Operator to generate 103 new jobs at regional airports

 

 

 

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) Board today gave the go-ahead to Bedford-based Rectrix Aviation to develop Fixed Base-Operator (FBO) facilities at Worcester Regional Airport and L.G. Hanscom Field.

 

Last Fall Massport issued a Request for Proposals for the development of first-class FBO facilities to support current general aviation activity, attract new aviation business and accommodate future demand. The RFP required the developer to provide FBO services at both airports.

 

The new Rectrix Aviation FBO will over time add approximately 100 new jobs to Massachusetts including flight crews with salaries up to $105,000, mechanics with salaries ranging between $22 and $50 per hour and FBO customer service and ramp employees ranging between $12.50 and $45 per hour.

 

A fixed-base operator is the primary provider of support services to general aviation aircraft and offers services such as aircraft parking and fueling, maintenance and hangar facilities at an airport.

Rectrix’s Worcester facility will include a regional aircraft maintenance facility that is expected to establish the airport as a destination for aircraft maintenance.

“Massachusetts’ public airports generate significant economic activity for all regions of the Commonwealth,” said Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray. “By partnering with Rectrix Aviation, the Commonwealth will enhance services for two of the state’s growing regional airports.”

 

Under the terms of the proposed lease agreement, Rectrix Aviation will invest approximately $5 million to develop 27,000 square feet of hangar and office space at Worcester Airport and $15 million to develop approximately 96,000 square feet of hangar and office space at Hanscom Field.

Each facility will be sized to accommodate the new large corporate aircraft such as the Gulfstream 650 and Global 7000.

Both developments are scheduled to be complete in two years and meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification standards as established by the U.S. Green Building Council.

 

“Massport is an economic catalyst managing its facilities to support economic development. With our ownership of Worcester Airport, we were able to leverage the benefits of both airports to offer quality development programs to meet the demand for business aviation in Massachusetts,” said Massport Interim CEO David Mackey. “Businesses rely on corporate aircraft to conduct business – it’s an extension of the board room.

We’re happy to welcome Rectrix Aviation to Worcester Airport and look forward to their continued success at Hanscom Field.”

 

Rectrix Aviation is a Massachusetts based company with corporate headquarters at Hanscom Field. Rectrix operates two FBO facilities: one at Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis, Massachusetts and the second at Sarasota Airport in Florida. In 2011, the Sarasota facility was voted by pilots as one of the top 20 facilities in the U.S.

In both 2010 and 2011, Rectrix was awarded a Platinum Rating from Argus International, the prestigious aviation operations audit group, for its safety practices and policies.

 

“As a Massachusetts-based aviation company I cannot tell you how excited we are to be involved in the next generation of the general aviation sector at Worcester and Hanscom. There is an economic resurgence ahead and Rectrix has positioned itself to be in the forefront, and what better place to do so than in the Commonwealth,” said Rectrix President and CEO Richard Cawley.”T

he labor pool here is excellent and we anticipate the addition of over a hundred jobs over the next few years. Massport recognized this opportunity and is promoting sustainable growth. The new generation of aircraft coming on line is very sensitive to the environment and both Worcester and Hanscom are perfect locations for this efficient growth.”

 

In a related matter, the Massport Board also approved a term sheet with Jet Aviation, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, to replace one of its existing hangars at Hanscom Field with a new and more modern 40,000 square foot hangar.

The replacement hangar will be able to accommodate the newer and larger corporate aviation aircraft that have global reach. The development will include passenger amenities areas, office space, aircraft ramp space and landscape improvements. The replacement hangar will be built adjacent to Jet Aviation’s existing facilities and will include up to 30 new permanent airport jobs.

 

Worcester Regional Airport serves Worcester County, the second fastest growing county in Massachusetts, along with the Boston Metro West region and the bustling Interstate 495 corridor. Hanscom Field is located in Bedford MA and is a vital link to domestic and international destinations. With its modern facilities, Hanscom is New England’s premier full-service corporate and general aviation airport. A Massachusetts Department of Transportation economic impact study found that Worcester Regional Airport contributes $51.5 million to the regional economy and Hanscom Field $249 million.

 

If it weren't for the CLAY there'd be fewer Finns and no West Barnstable Brick on Cape Cod...

 

 BREAKING NEWS....

 

BECAUSE THE CHARGES AND EVENTS AGAINST PAGE SERIOUSLY CONFLICT WITH THE EVENT MEMORIALIZED ON YOUTUBE, THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ASKED FOR A CONTINUANCE OF THE PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE.

 

 

 

 

 

The old West Barnstable Brick factory was located off Route 6A in West Barnstable.

 

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For decades in the 1800’s the West Barnstable Brick factory was the only brick manuafacturer on Cape Cod.

 

The reason the company located in West Barnstable was because the whole village was built on clay so thick the company was able to manufacture dry press brick which was far more superior and cheaper to make than extruded brick made in off-Cape brick factories.

 

 

If you happen to run into a West Barnstable Brick, hang on to it because they sell for $20 in antique stores today.

 

The old West Barnstable Brick Company was located near Patrick Page's house on Route 6A.

 

 

Clay has an extremely low permeability;  only plastic sheeting has a lower hydraulic conductivity which means Title V septic systems don't perform in clay.

 

 

Most closed landfills and superfund sites are capped with clay to keep precipitation from leaching through and carrying poisons into the groundwater.

 

 

Title V septic systems rely on the soil's ability to percolate thus denitrify and filter effluent.

 

 

Since effluent and stormwater can't "perc" in West Barnstable, why aren't the Burger King, Cape Cod Community Center, Cape Cod Conservatory, YMCA, and Gurley Affordable Housing Project on Route 132 in West Barnstable connected to the sewer plant down the street?

 

Even more eerier is the fact the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MADEP), the Cape Cod Commission, and the Massachusetts Estuaries Project haven’t established total daily maximum loads (TDML’s) for Cape Cod Bay in West Barnstable.

 

 

There's more eelgrass in Cape Cod Bay than in Nantucket Sound.

 

Cape Cod Community College has 650 full & part-time staff, 6,500+ credit seeking students, 5000 - non-credit seeking students, as well as 500 post graduate students which amounts to twenty times more toilet flushes each day than in the 320 homes in Stewarts Creek.

 

 

If you count the urinal and toilet flushes at the Burger King on Route 132, the YMCA, the Cape Cod Conservatory, and the Gurley Affordable Housing Project, all located within a half-mile radius of each other, the number of toilet flushes could be a hundred times more than in Stewarts Creek.

 

 

 

The soil in Stewarts Creek is highly permeable because of the virtual absence of clay, and the TDML in Keyes Beach that abuts Stewarts Creek is below the recommended maximum, but nevertheless the 700 area residents were forced to connect to the sewer anyway.

 

 

Patrick Page and his wife, Jane Saunders live at the bottom of the hill from Oak Street, Iyannough Road, and a section of Route 6A on 3.5 acres of virtually impermeable soil.

 

 

For years Page has complained publicly about the stormwater runoff and Title V septic system effluent from the developments up the hill from his house amassing on his property on the way to Cape Cod Bay.

 

 

Remember the fecal count in the surface water in Page's back yard that flowed from the YMCA;

 

 

 

 

 

Today Patrick Page will represent himself before Judge O’Neill in Barnstable District Court in a pre-trial conference for “protesting too much” during a town council hearing.

 

 

Thomas Jefferson said something to the effect sic. when the lawmakers become lawbreakers, it is the DUTY of every citizen to resist.

 

When you factor the Clean Water Act that prohibits the transmission of contaminated water into navigable waters through pipes, conduits, and trenches, and state laws that prohibit the same, the outlaws are the Lynch mob.

 

 

Disgraced Judges, Cannibalism, and Hyannis’ Seven-Year Water Itch…

 

The Barnstable courts continue to eat its young, and yesterday was no exception when Barnstable First District Judge, W. James O’Neill characterized the court’s Chief Magistrate, Robert Powers as a “disgrace” when offering his opinion as to whether the man is fit to serve again in court they co-managed.

 

 

It seems like it was only yesterday that Barnstable Superior Court Judge, Richard Connon, whose wife was a career teacher at the Hyannis Middle School, ruled in favor of Former Barnstable Town Manager, John Klimm’s decision to eschew the 1911 Special Act of the Legislature that gave the Barnstable Water Company exclusive rights to sell water in Hyannis by agreeing to sell the company to the town at any time “at cost.”

 

 

Each and every year for 95 years the Barnstable Water Company submitted profit and loss statements and balance sheets to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities that kept a running tally on the company’s worth, which in 2005 was between $3.5 and $4 million in preparation for the day the town decided to acquire the company.

 

The BARLACO Corporation was a Barnstable Water Company spin-off after the land acquired through a DPU-authorized water rate increase for the purpose of acquiring upgradient properties on which to sink new water wells.

 

 

When the owners decided to sell the BARLACO property after land values skyrocketed, the DPU ruled the land was an integral part of the Barnstable Water Company because the land was paid for by water rate payers.

In 2002 when the Barnstable Water Company merged with Connecticut Water Company, Inc. (a NYSE-listed corporation) the value of the Barnstable Water Company was $6 million, yet two years later with minimal capital investment, John Klimm agreed to pay $11 million through covert bargaining efforts,

 

Shortly after the acquisition Klimm built his retirement home in a gated beach community in Georgia.

 

 

In order to keep prying eyes away from the deal rather than comply with a dozen or more Massachusetts laws that required the water entity to be managed by three elected water commissioners, Klimm unlawfully hand-picked his own water board that is still in charge even though he and Bob Smith have moved on.

 

 

COGgers filed a ten-taxpayer lawsuit asking that Klimm be forced to comply with Massachusetts laws, but Judge Richard F. Connon, Jr. (retired) a drinking buddy of town attorney, Robert Smith, disgracefully disagreed.

 

 

Klimm and Smith have moved on but the water company is still owned by Hyannis property owners who also own and operate the four other water districts in town (COMM, Cotuit, Barnstable Fire District, and West Barnstable) through elected water commissioners.

 

For example I, together with all other property owners in Centerville, Osterville, and Marstons Mills own and operate the COMM Fire District that owns the COMM Water District through fire district taxes and water rates.

 

I also own and pay for a piece of the Hyannis Water entity through my property tax even though I don't get a drop of water from it, while the people who buy and consume Hyannis water are outnumbered by those who don't 15 to 1.

 

In three weeks the seven-year statute of limitation to prosecute Klimm for corruption in the water company deal will expire, yet Hyannis water rate payers are still drinking water pumped from the mouth of the sewer plant’s effluent discharge sand beds, under the airport’s two untreated storm water retention ponds, and from groundwater contaminated with perchlorate, leaded aviation gasoline, glycol, and carbon tetrachloride.

 

The Hyannis water supply is pumped to taps via 45 miles of outdated asbestos concrete pipe in a water supply loaded with lye (to maintain a PH of 7), chlorine (to kill bacteria), and grease (to keep some of the asbestos in the pipes from flaking off).

 

 

Small wonder why the Massachusetts Cancer Registry reports Hyannis cancer rates as 147% greater than the state average.

 

 

COG agrees with Judge O’Neill; the Barnstable Court system has a long legacy of disgraced judges.  

 

 

IT'S BEEN SEVEN YEARS, BUT I'LL POST OUR RESPONSE AS A REMINDER OF BARNSTABLE CORRUPTION ONE LAST TIME;

 

TO: Barnstable Town Manager/Council and others

 

RE: Barnstable Water Company Acquisition

 

Pursuant to an inspection and review of public records, we strongly feel the Barnstable Water Company acquisition, in its present form does not satisfy requirements in MA. G.L Ch. 40, Sec. 38, and Ch. 286, Sec. 12 of the Acts of 1911, the company’s enabling legislation (hereinafter the “Special Act”).

 

Furthermore, the Town administration chose to have only a Town Council vote under the Special Act “because we don’t want to go near an acquisition under c. 40. Sec. 38 since that requires -ratification by voters at an election.

 

”Furthermore, we believe that the purchase is unfair to the ratepayers of Barnstable Water Company who are primarily residents of Hyannis as their rates will be used to pay open space in Barnstable Village/Cummaquid.

 

Finally, we believe that certain documents and strategies were either withheld or simply not provided to the full council which calls into question many of the assumptions underlying this purchase.

 

Ratification by Voters And BondingBoth M.A. G.L. Ch. 40, Sec. 38, and the Special Act require that the voters of the Town of Barnstable approve the purchase of the water company.

 

Yet, no vote has been scheduled, nor has the Town’s attorney provided a written opinion from bond counsel that such vote is not necessary.M.A. G.L. Ch. 40, Sec. 38, requires selectman approval for towns and city council approval for cities followed by a majority vote of the voters to purchase a water company.

 

Similarly, the Special Act requires a “two thirds vote of voters” at an open town meeting called for that purpose.

 

The Town’s administration asserts that the Town Charter places the authority of Town Meeting in the Town Council and, therefore, the Town Council has authority to vote for the people to purchase the water company.

 

We feel that the Barnstable town charter cannot supersede clearly worded prior legislation of the General Court in both M.G.L. ch. 40, Sec. 38, and the Special Act requiring a popular ratification vote.

 

This is particularly true when Sec. 38 requires municipalities which have a city form of government to have both a council vote and a popular vote.

 

The only support for the Town’s position is a 1948 decision involving Cohasset where the court held that a selectman’s vote under Sec. 38 was not necessary when a special act allowed the action to be taken by town meeting alone.

 

The Barnstable matter, however, is significantly different.

 

In particular, the Cohasset matter involved a vote of the voters at Town Meeting and the only issue was whether it needed to be preceded by a vote of the selectman.

 

Here, Barnstable has changed its government form after the 1911 passage of the Special Act.

 

If the Town proceeds on its course, the voters will never have a direct vote on the acquisition as they are allowed under both the Special Act and MA G.L. ch. 40, Sec. 38.

 

Without the Special Act, it is clear that the Town Council vote would need to be followed by a special election.

 

Relying on a decision in which a vote of the voters occurred at town meeting in Cohasset to conclude that no vote is necessary is a risky course at best.

 

Furthermore, we have significant concerns that the Town Administration and its lawyers are picking and choosing which parts of the Special Act to pay attention to.

 

In particular, the Special Act limits the Town to issuing bonds in an amount not to exceed $400,000.

 

Here, the Town Council voted to issue bonds of approximately $11,000,000.

 

We believe that, if the Town desires to use the Special Act provisions to purchase the Barnstable Water Company, it is constrained to do so within the terms of the Special Act.

 

That is it can only issue bonds in the amount of $400,000 for the acquisition using the Special Act.

 

What is particularly troubling is that the Town’s files do not show any opinion of its attorneys, Palmer and Dodge, on the issue.

 

However, it is clear that the Town’s administration sought to avoid the dictates of MA G.L. 40, Sec. 38, as the attached e-mail from the Town Attorney’s office states that he has revised portions of the proposed purchase “because we don’t want to. go near an acquisition under c. 40. Sec. 38 since that requires ratification by voters at an election.” (copy attached).

 

We believe that the Town Council needs to review this matter and have its attorneys provided a written and binding opinion that the actions of the Council were appropriate and lawful. 

 

II. Fairness to Hyannis Citizens

 

Regardless of procedural issues, we feel that the transaction as structured is unfair to the rate payers of Hyannis. In particular, the Town will buy the water company for $10,000,000.00 in the next month. The Town will buy the Barlaco land for $1,000,000 in January, 2006.

 

The purchase of the Barlaco land buy its terms is a below market transaction for tax purposes.

 

As Mr. Counsel acting as a paid consultant to the Town stated, the Barlaco Land is worth $5,000,000.

 

Obviously, Connecticut water is not giving the land at a lower price out of a sense of public duty.

 

Rather, Connecticut Water is selling the water company at a inflated price and then selling the Barlaca land on the cheap.

 

While it could be argued that the water users will benefit from this land, the truth of the matter is that the land is pretty much inaccessible from Hyannis and a large parcel (approximately 30 acres) which has no well potential and was under agreement by a local builder for $3,000,000 is in Cummaquid.

 

In summary, basically, the rate payers of Hyannis are paying for open space in Cummaquid.

 

III. Relevant Documents

 

1. E-mail On Avoiding Popular Vote

 

As discussed above, the Town Administration feared a popular vote on the acquisition and consciously structured the transaction in an attempt to avoid such a vote.

 

2. COMM Cost Estimate

 

On September 20, 2004, the Town Manager requested that Craig Crocker provide an estimate of the costs of upgrades to bring the system up to standards.

 

The letter in response estimated a cost of approximately $13,000,000 to upgrade the water system. (copy attached)

 

3. Offer to Sell Only Barlaco Land

 

On October, 21, 2004, the Connecticut Water Company offered to sell all of the Barlaco land to the Town for $1,000,000 a follows:

 

We would be willing to sell you all of the land in Barlaco for the $1,000,000 you offered and treat the transaction as a bargain sale for federal tax purposes on our books. Leave the water utility with us to own and operate as we see fit while not agreeing to give up any rights the Town believes it has to acquire in the future;

 

In essence, the town would not move to acquire the water utility, either voluntarily or otherwise, for the time being without officially waiving any rights under the original Barnstable Charter.

 

Copy attached.Thus, the Town could have had the open space owned by Barlaco for the price that it is paying now and would have retained the right to later buy the water company.

 

In summary, we continue to ask that the Town Council vote to rescind this matter and/or require Palmer and Dodge and the Town Administration to explain why they proceeded in the manner in which they did.

 

We continue our intent to bring a Ten Taxpayer Lawsuit to set aside this transaction unless further action is taken to improve this deal for the Hyannis and/or this matter is referred for approval by a vote of the citizens. 

 

John Julius

 

Gary Lopez

 

Lou Gonzaga

 

Imagine Tom Lynch dumped millions of gallons of dirty filthy stormwater into your backyard and no one in town would do a thing about it..

 

We all know what stormwater runoff looks like...

 

 

To refresh your memory this is what the crap looked like a few days ago in Patrick Page's backyard courtesy of Acting Town Manager, Tom Lynch and the Barnstable Town Council...

 

 

 

 

 

 

"When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty."

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

Unfortunately the internet won't permit me to let you know what the stuff smells like

 

(think a gazillion rotten eggs, or a simultaneous on cue flatulence at a Patriot playoff game) 

 

 

But do you know what the fecal coliform in Lynch's stormwater runofff looks like under a microscope?

 

 

Two and a half years ago Patrick Page took a sample of stormwater that flowed from the YMCA into his backyard.

 

 

 

The following are copies of Page's paper work;

 

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

 

 

 

 

 

The amount of bacteria in the culture was 2000 colony forming units per milliliter (CFU’s) compared to the MADEP Reporting Limit of 10.

 

Total Kjehldahl nitrogen (TKN) (1.5 milligrams/liter) was three times more than the EPA Reporting Limit (0.5). 

 

 

 

Total TKN is the combination of organically bound nitrogen, BOD's, and ammonia in wastewater.

 

Since the EPA and MADEP TKN Maximum Reporting Limit is 0.50 milligrams/liter, wasn’t Patrick Page, who has no public water supply, entitled to an answer from the town council or the Acting Town Manager?

 

 

Page's trial will weigh whether or not his six years of coming to town hall with these same questions over the town's illegal directing of stormwater runoff from the YMCA, CCCC, Route 132, and Oak Street onto his property that leaches into his private well and getting no answers justified his mini-outburst during the council hearing.

 

SEE THE YOUTUBE VIDEO MEMORIALIZING THE EVENT AT THE END OF THE POST.

 

 

 

When Page got the lab results he was so concerned about the pollution on top of his water supply, he drove over to Dr. Wayne Miller's house on Route 149 across the street from the West Barnstable Fire Station.

 

 

Miller was (as still is) Chairman of the Barnstable Board of Health.

 

 

After Page showed him the lab results, Miller said it was a matter of concern, and sent him off as he rushed to the telephone.

 

 

The next day Joanne Buntich's husband who was the contractor for the YMCA expansion had lots of heavy equipment and truck loads of gravel to dig a massive drainage system that was later fenced in.

 

 

Page never heard back from Miller, but he did get a summons in the mail  after town attorneys charged him with criminal harassment for blowing the whistle on town hall.

 

 

As you know Page, acting as his lawyer, was found not guilty by a jury of his peers in a case prosecuted by Stanford University and Harvard Law School grad, Joe Kennedy III who is the favorite to win Barney Frank's seat in Congress.

 

 

For the second time in two years the town manager and the town council’s answers to Page's questions about the pollution still being dumped into his backyard came in the form of an arrest for disorderly conduct and a second “no trespass order” to keep the bastard away from town hall.

 

 

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 2:00 PM Page will ask District Court Judge, O’Neil to suppress Acting Town Manager, Tom Lynch’s “on trespass order” during a pre-trial conference in his jury trial where Page will once again defend himself for speaking out at the March 15th 2012 town council hearing.

 

 

Page concludes that since Lynch’s “no trespass” order has no probative value, is multiplicitous, was written after his arrest, and serves to prejudice the jury.

 

Rule 403.

 

Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Grounds of Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time

 

 

Relevant, evidence can be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of

• unfair prejudice,
• confusion of the issues, or
• misleading the jury, 
• by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.

 

 

If 100 witnesses saw the same accident, and would each give roughly the same description of the event, the testimony of each would be equally relevant, but it would be a waste of time or a needless presentation of cumulative evidence to have all 100 repeat the same facts at trial.

 

 

Lynch's "no trespass" order was written several days after Page was arrested presumably to bolster the town's case against him.

 

The half-dozen instances of similar outbursts noted in the order are not relavent because Page was never arrested.

 

Ironically Barnstable property owners, including the 320 homeowners in Stewarts Creek, just spent $35 million to sewer their neighborhood and build a pump station at Hyannis West Elementary School to stop less nutrient loading into Keyes Beach

 

than Lynch, et al direct onto Page’s five-acre parcel at the intersection of Oak Street, Route 6A, and Route 132.

 

 

What the jury will see and hear;

 

   

 

After the trial Page says he will take and pass the Bar Exam.

BOO!, HISS! Melodrama is coming to the town council soon...

 

 

Standing by and watching bullies beat up on innocent property owners like the Moulton's, Patrick Page, Jane Saunders, Susan Limmoncelli, Bert Russo, scores of single mothers in Stewarts Creek, etc. is the same as hoping the lion will eat you last.

 

 

 

With crazies like Paul Niedzwieki and his divide and conquer computer-generated wastewater model program to force sewers in small select areas, 

 

hundreds of property owners will be one property lein payment away from being homeless.

 

 

Late last year hundreds of Stewarts Creek homeowners were hit with $10,000 sewer construction cost liens to reimburse town costs to construct sewer lines to the middle of their streets.

 

Later this year these same homeowners will borrow that much, or more, from the county (another lien) to hook up to the sewer in the middle of their roads.

 

 

After they are hooked up, they'll begin incurring $50-a-month sewer processing bills.

 

 

Since many of these homeowners are expected to fall behind in their payments, the concept prompted Finance Director, Mark Milne and Acting Town Manager, Tom Lynch to come up with a solution; plagiarize what dozens of Central Massachusetts communities do;

 

sell property liens to third parties who then institute foreclosure proceedings.

 

 

I characterize these shylocks as "latter-day leg breakers" because they strong-arm the unfortunates into one of two choices

 

(1) Work out an immediate payment plan (50% now and 50% in three months), or

 

(2) face foreclosure proceedings.

 

 

Barnstable Collector, Maureen Niemi, is vehemently against the Milne/Lynch third-party lein sale plan, and will do her best to convince the council to reject it.

 

 Earlier this year the Worcester Telegram reported that scores of Central Massachusetts communities, including the City of Worcester, have already implemented third-party debt sales plans forcing hundreds of homeowners into foreclosure.

 

Worcester resident, Jadwiga Ortiz, lost her $200,000 property when a third party, who bought her $2,533 tax lien, shortly thereafter foreclosed on the property.

 

 

While the land court gave her more time to settle her debt, unfortunately, the property, a three-decker, was badly damaged by a fire a day after the court’s decision, forcing the family to move out, leaving the fate of the building in doubt.

 

 

The City of Worcester sold Norman Guertin’s tax title on his three-decker house to the Harok Family Trust in 2010 for just over $3,500.

 

 

The trust subsequently paid taxes on the property in F/Y 2010 and F/Y2011, and coupled with those payments, interest and attorney fees, filed a foreclosure notice and is demanding payment of $19,184.75, due by April 5.

 

 

Since the property is valued at $200,000, the trust will make a score on its ten cents on the dollar investment.

 

If Lynch and Milne get their way shylocks will make big profits with minimum investments by preying on the most vulnerable; senior citizen homeowners living on fixed incomes.

 

 

Earlier this year, the town of Uxbridge generated $373,000 at an auction in which it sold the tax title to 46 of 85 properties it put up for sale.

 

 

The sale of the tax liens, according to Uxbridge Finance Director David A. Genereux, was a reluctant but necessary move.

 

 

“We would prefer to keep ownership of the liens, but unfortunately you get to a point where the fiscal stress is such that you don’t have a choice,” he said.

 

 

 

It was the first time Uxbridge had gone this route, and the town undertook an extensive notification process, which included a public meeting at which the proposed sale of tax titles was thoroughly discussed, Mr. Genereux said.

 

 

At least three notices were subsequently sent to property owners before the sales were advertised in the newspaper in October, January and February, he said.

 

 

Thirty-six property owners, as a result of the notification process, agreed to payment plans with the town, which required them to pay 50 percent of their tax debt and to pay the balance by June 30.

 

 

“We wanted to do everything we could to notify people because the goal was to collect what was owed, not to sell,” he said.

 

 

Worcester officials are saying the same thing, but the trend suggests that cities and towns will be unloading as many of these tax lien properties as they can.

 

 

If Tom Lynch gets his way too many Barnstable property owners, including hundreds in Stewarts Creek, will face foreclosure proceedings later this year.

 

 

Take a look at the Legal Notices in today's Barnstable Patriot, 80 Woodbury (Stewarts Creek) is advertised as a foreclosure.

 

 

 

Just How Stupid is Tom Lynch? Taxpayer Inquiring Minds Have a Right to Know..

 

Terry Bradshaw, Joe Theismann, Vince Young, and Morris Claiborne are all college graduates who have Wonderlic IQ aptitude test scores of 13 or less.

 

Tom Lynch's role in arresting Patrick Page on March 15, 2012 puts him in the same company with former ESPN Monday Night Football analyst, Joe Theismann who once commented on air; "Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius," "A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein."

 

 

If today’s kids are required to take the Wonderlic Intelligence aptitude tests before being interviewed for a job the same should hold true for applicants for the town manager job.

 

 

That's the way it worked under Civil Service, and the town manager is a civil servant.  Why even consider Lynch's low score when we can hire a person whose aptitude is ten or more times higher?

 

 

Like the IQ tests of yesteryear Wonderlic IQ scores are calculated as the number of correct answers given in an allotted time.

 

 

A Wonderlic's score of 20 is the equivalent of an IQ score of 100.

 

 

If you haven’t seen the video of Page’s actions that led up to his arrest I suggest you watch the YouTube video.

 

 

 

 

Page has been escorted from the dais in the town council hearing room dozens of times over the last seven years, and he always walks out without offering the slightest resistance.

 

 

Since Lynch's policy is to ignore Page's legitimate bi-weekly two minute complaints,

 

was it smart for him to subject himself to hours, even days, of questioning by Page in a Barnstable District Court courtroom as a witness in his defense?

 

 

Page is entitiled to a defense based on the events that led to his arrest.  

 

 

He was arrested after he asked a few pointed questions concerning illegal town actions whereby polluted storm water flooded his house, backyard, and private water supply, and didn't get a single word of response from any of the 13 councilors.

 

 

Page wanted answers why the town violated the Clean Water Act.

 

The town is required to obtain an NPDES Permit from the EPA before it can transport and dump untreated stormwater runoff into his backyard before it is directed to another pipe under Route 6A and through a man-made trench across Sandy Neck into Cape Cod Bay.

 

 

The town has no such NPDES permit, ergo is violating the Clean Water Act along with poisoning his water well.

 

 

Page is capable of defending himself in court.  

 

Three years ago town attorneys, David Houghton and Ruth Weil prepared and filed criminal harassment complaints against Page that concluded in an acquittal in a jury trial in Barnstable District Court prosecuted by future U.S. Congressman, Joe Kennedy III, a graduate of both Stanford, and Harvard Law School.

 

 

Not only did the jury came back with a "not guilty," it did so ten minutes after getting jury instructions, the time it typically takes to elect a jury foreman.

 

 

Take a look at the comments of the speaker prior to Page on YouTube (Bert Russo), and Dummy Lynch's response to Councilor Norman's question who does an aggreived constituent complain to.

 

You’ll quickly get the idea that the council has provided no method to register complaints, and that the panel just doesn’t want to get involved with any of its constituents.

 

 

 

 

 

Friday morning, March 16, 2012 at 8:30 AM a few hours after he was bailed out, Page entered a plea of not guilty before Judge O’Neil.

 

 

Page’s pre-trial hearing is set for April 12, 2012, and once again Page will represent himself before a jury of his peers.

 

 

Since Page’s arrest, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 9 – 0 in favor of Page’s peers, the Sacketts in a case virtually identical to Page, and U.S. First District Judge, Taurus, set aside the Foxboro Board of Selectmen’s decision to prevent Bob Kraft’s attorney’s from speaking during public comment on the basis it violated Kraft’s First Amendment Rights.

 

 

 

Page’s defense to the disorderly conduct charge will be structured around the Conservation Commission’s failure to appeal and comply with a MADEP superseding order of a wetland determination on his property six years ago.

 

This Friday is Good Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The documents posted above are the stuff Page talked about minutes before he was carted off to the hoosegow.

 

 

Page can subpoena Scott Blazis and Bob Gatewood to get answers.

 

 

Page can subpoena Fred Chirigotis and Tom Lynch to answer his questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder if Tom Lynch is aware that a single arid dandelion plant has 10,000, or more, times more nitrate than a liter of effluent from a septic tank?

 

 

I wonder if Tom Lynch is aware that the little snow that fell on Cape Cod this winter will result in drought conditions?

 

 

With so many dead dandelion plants expected, Page's trial could last more than two days.

 

 

Page will demand answers from the Acting Town Manager and DPW Director as to why they continue to direct untreated storm water runoff from Oak Street, Route 132, and the YMCA into his backyard, a point-source violation of the Clean Water Act.

 

Page has letters from the DOT District Manager, Bernie McCourt, questioning Mark Ells’ authority to tie into the state’s storm water pipe on Page’s property.

 

Page also could subpoena the EPA’s First District Clean Water Act enforcement people and ask them why they haven’t prosecuted  Lynch, Ells, or the town, for channeling untreated storm water to run from Oak Street, Route 132, and the YMCA onto Page’s property and then into a pipe under Route 6a that empties into a man-made trench that empties into Cape Cod Bay.

 

In short Page's arrest was a blessing from God because now he'll have hours to get answers from Lynch, Chirigotis, Barton, Joakim, Ells, Blazis, Gatewood, Weil, Haughton, et all which they won't be able to retract during his civil law suit seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages.

 

 

This week the NFL leaked Morris Claiborne's Wonderlic IQ test score, 4.

 

 

Between Lynch's recent actions, and the fact that he won't be on his hands a knees begging Michael O'Keefe, not to prosecute Page, will tell you his score isn't that much better than Claiborne's.

 

 

In case you're wondering, the average Wonderlic test score is a 24.

 

Examples of scores from everyday professions include:

 

• Historian – 36
• Chemist – 31
• Physicist – 48
• Programmer – 29
• Journalist – 26
• Sales – 24
• Bank teller – 22
• Clerical worker – 21
• Security guard – 17
• Warehouse worker – 15  
•  

 

 

THE REAL QUESTION YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF TODAY IS;

 

DO YOU REALLY WANT A STUPID BASTARD LIKE TOM LYNCH SERVING ANOTHER HOUR AS TOWN MANAGER?

 

 

Stay tuned for information how to get the hottest ticket on Cape Cod for this year;  a seat to Page's trial later this summer.

 

 

If you want to take a sample test copy and paste

 

http://www.efplfp.stealingisgood.com/wpt.html

 onto your browser 

Barnstable rats continue to flee KLIMM'S sinking ship…Next on tap; the $IZE of Lynch’s golden parachute…

 

 

Get a tight grip on your backpocket, it's Déjà vu all over again in Barnstable.

 

 

Last June, the unchallenged most corrupt politician in Barnstable, Fred Chirigotis conncocted his nefarious scheme to give $300,000 to John Klimm as an early termination bonus and blame it on others during a secret executive session.

 

 

The fallout hasn't finished, but if you want to know the score to date, ask former town councilors, James Crocker, James Munafo, and Henry Farnham about Klimm's attorney, J. Albert Johnson's self-imposed gag order threatening to sue any councilor for doing what thery were elected to do; inform constituents of what was going on.

 

 

On March 29, 2012 Chirigotis and his, for the most part, new merry band of theives, Cullum, Cote, Hersey, Tinsley, and Rugo met in secret (executive session) in the bowels of town hall to beg Tom Lynch to stay on as town manager, and to tell him how much they need him.

 

The group also will ask Lynch how much more money he wants to stay on as town manager.  

 

 

Since the secret committee met exactly one week after the Town Council Town Manager Search Committee convened does the new committee mean the Search Committee isn't necessary?

 

 

This same scenario was done several years ago when School Committee Chair, Ralph "the Goon" Cahoon offered his pal, Fifth Grade School Principal, Tom MacDonald, the "temporary" School Superintendant's job.

 

 

MacDonald, who was scheduled to retire at $60K a year based on his principal's job, ended up "temporary" School Superintendent for three years, or just enough time on the job for him to retire at $146,000 a year.

 

 

While Cahoon and MacDonald were on the job the school's performance records fell from 15th in the state to 185th best, and enrollment dropped from 7,200 to 5,200.

 

 

At the same time the new Sturgis Charter School was ranked 53rd in the nation by Newsweek Magazine, and 2nd best in the State by MASS. Department of Education.

 

 

I checked the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) Municipal Jobs website and didn't see Barnstable's manager posted. 

 

 

If you ask me or thirty-thousand others in Barnstable about Lynch's managing skills, they'd tell you he wouldn't make a pimple on Warren Rutherford’s ass.   The bad news for Klimmboobs; Rutherford is available for the temporary gig.

 

The same goes for former Mashpee and Falmouth town manager, Bob Whritenour, who was cleared of all charges against him, and to the best of my knowledge is available as well.

 

Lynch was appointed Acting Town Manager on December 16, 2011 after former town manager, John Klimm, accepted a similar position in Portsmouth, RI, and was reappointed again on March 15, 2012 which means if the Charter is to be believed, he’s toast in town hall on June 15, 2012 unless the thoroughly corrupt council president comes up with something equally nefarious as he did with Klimm.

 

 

Under Section 4-5 of the Barnstable Town Charter, Lynch is ordained to be a short-timer;

 

Town Charter; Vacancy in Office 

 

 

“Any vacancy in the office of town manager shall be filled as soon as possible by the town council.  Pending appointment of the town manager or the filling of any vacancy, the council shall forthwith appoint some other qualified person to perform the duties of the town manager. 

 

The appointment of the acting town manager shall be for a term not to exceed three months, provided however, a renewal, not to exceed an additional three months may be provided.

 

 

 

 

”http://town.barnstable.ma.us/TownManager/charter_current.pdf

 

 

There's nothing to stop Chirigotis, et al, from appointing Lynch as the next town manager, but the gang of theives should at least make it look as if they interviewed other candidates.

 

Chirigotis' latest offer must be a “doozey” because his reasoning for holding it in secret doesn’t fall under any of the ten exemptions for executive sessions under the state’s Open Meeting Law.

 

 

The new (latter) committee went into executive session “to discuss strategy in preparation for contract talks with a non-union employee – Acting Town Manager Tom Lynch.”

 

 

I didn't attend the special meeting, but if the committee went into executive session based on the reasoning cited by Chirigotis, the meeting was unlawful because the reason for going behind closed doors doesn’t fall under any of the ten exemptions of the state’s Open Meeting Law.

 

The Open Meeting Law provides executive sessions may be held to discuss contract strategies,

 

"provided at the time the executive session is proposed and voted on, the chair states on the record that having the discussion in an open session is detrimental to the public body’s bargaining position."

 

 

If the arrogant corrupt egomaniacial greedy four-term council president tries to tell us the public has no right to know how much it's cost us to keep Lynch, it's time to recall the bastard.  

 

 

Chirigotis and the rest of them are up for reelection next year.  No charge for the Billboard.