Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Missing $950,000.00 No Laughing Matter

 “Remember when the gang that can't shoot straight said "Washingtron 

Drive", Washington Drive! We need to audit the audit. on Washington Drive? 

There's about a million dollars missing", they said.


 So what happened to the audit of the audit? They have been looking for 

months to find the "missing" one million dollars. Anybody happen to see 

that million? Maybe it is in the closet, or how about checking in the 

cardboard boxes in the basement. That million has GOT TO BE 

SOMEWHERE. Excuse us, it is now one million plus $ 13,000,00 ( price of 

audit ).


  Now, you know this was just another expensive, dumb move. The audit 

of the audit will cost us about $ 12.000.00  and of course it will divulge 

nothing.


It's another Gormley/Dayton/Perrotti/Savarese mess.”



Mr. DeAngelis mischaracterizes the Town budget while he ignores the Region 15 budget.  He ignores the fact that the Town budget was actually reduced by 2.36% from Mr. St. John's budget of the previous year. Now he makes light of the fact that Middlebury is in the hole for $950,000.00 from Mr. St John’s Washington Dr. deal.


Where is the humor there? 


This illustrates that Mr. DeAngelis’s agenda is to attack every public servant in Town, create the illusion of chaos, and somehow prop-up Mr. St. John as some sort of savior who will ride back into Town after not disappearing in the not so distant sunset.  Its not going to work.


The missing $950,000.00 is not a laughing matter and something that Mr. Gormley inherited from his predecessor. Any new First Selectmen would want an audit to ascertain how the Town was put in such a position.


Lumping Chief Perrotti into the Washington Dr. audit is just plain silly.  The Fire Chief is not a Selectman, nor the Town attorney, and has nothing to do with any audit. The Chief’s only impact on the Town budget was to reduce his own budget by almost 10% over the last two years.


The Town is out $950,000.00, caused by Mr. St. John’s Washington Dr. deal, and Mr. DeAngelis calls it a Gormley/Dayton/Perrotti/Savarese mess. Looks like more of a St. John/Strobel mess to even the casual observer.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Deangelis benefits from an "axis of evil" in Middlebury.

Doctor St. John is throwing sand in the gears at every opportunity.

Elaine Strobel fails to use her 10 years Selectmans experience to help Gormley. Instead she stays silent at selectmans meetings and lets Gormley make rookie mistakes. Then she rats it out to Deangelis. Thanks a lot Elaine. Exactly what is in this for you?

Doctor St. John's sidekick Ken Heidkamp seems to accompany him everywhere - always at his side. What is with this odd couple??? Creepy.

And the Republican Town Committee? Didn't Row B promise to support Tom Gormley? Hardly. Criticism, snickering, jokes, and snide remarks are not help. There is not a soul on that committee who has done a single thing to help Gormley. Do they want him to come begging for help? The town was better off when those jerks were at each others throats.