This is a "minor" point we've been told. Of course all these "minor"
points add up to major expenses. What the hell is such a broad category
as "Fire Fighting Equipment" doing in an adult budget. What equipment and
what is the definition of fire fighting equipment. And who gets the grand for
sweeping the firehouse floor?
An “adult budget?” Verses what, a child budget? I think you need to be an adult to fight a fire, and I do think that firefighters need equipment to do so. Considering the cost of fire fighting equipment and the fact that it does need to be replaced, $20,000 is a small number. Perhaps we should be outfitting the apparatus with discarded garden hose found at the dump. It is not minor. Its silly.
Anyone who has ever visited Fire Headquarters will agree that the building is the cleanest public building in Town. Visitors often think that the building is brand new. Why does it look so good? Because the firefighters take pride in their building and keep it in pristine condition. The credit goes almost 100% to Chief Perrotti.
But, heck its all about the numbers, right? Lets look at the Budget.
Recreation Contractual Cleaning $2,000.00
Janitorial $1800.00
Total: $3800.00
Library Contractual Cleaning $5,000.00
Total: $5000.00
Public Works Contractual Cleaning $12,450.00
Total: $12,450.00
Police Department Janitorial $1100.00
Cleaning Services $ 700.00
Total: $1800.00
Fire Department Janitorial $1000.00
Total: $1000.00
One of the largest departments in Town with one of the smallest budgets also has the smallest budget towards cleaning. How is it that the organization with the smallest cleaning budget also has the cleanest building in Town? Just more silly, unfounded attacks against the MVFD from Mr. DeAngelis.
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hes got nothing new for you. He like a prune.....retired and has a lot of wrinkles
Why is the fire house cleaning budget so low?
I'll tell you why. It is because Paul Perrotti runs an operation that keeps everything - and I mean everything - in tip top condition at all times. It seems as if every time I'm in the firehouse I see Paul - sometimes alone and sometimes with his guys - doing something involving keeping the facility and equipment ready for a white glove inspection.
This is great discipline for a department that needs to be military-ready at all times. Paul has no problems picking up a piece of litter or swabbing a floor - it is not beneath him. This type of leadership rubs off on the younger volunteers - leading to the good citizens that the MVFD turns out.
I'm sure Mr. Deangelis does not know the value of that. But it is priceless and speaks to the old time values that we cherish and want to preserve for Middlebury.
Mr. Deangelis would sell it all in a minute if he could lower his taxes by a few dollars.
I could scream when I think of Deangelis and his continuous attacks on the MVFD. I just hope that Paul and the department members don't let it bother them. Deangelis is a jerk. There is one in every town and we have ours for sure. Try to ignore him.
Make up your mind. First you don't want Fire dept.to cut the grass or maintain the biulding because it's taking away union jobs and now your bitching because you have to spend money to clean it!
Please check out this site
Preserve Middlebury
where Tom Gormley discusses the budget with video clips and letters.
Please watch
Public Access Channel 21
on Saturday September 27 starting at 8:00PM to see Tom explain the budget.
Please let your friends and neighbors know about this and ask them to support the budget on Tuesday.
4 budget votes.....whose fault is that ? Did you really think asking the voters to approve a 14% tax increase was going to pass ? Hello ?
next...... lets try a 10 % increase ! (hey buddy did you get a 10% raise at work ?)
so now its down to 5.99999 %
Deangelis has the Board of Finance tapes. I'm sure he listened to all of them before extracting out the few minutes that he wanted for his distortions.
But Pat ignored the fact that 90 minutes was spent without finding ANY realistic short term cuts of significance. Even his buddies McCormack and Bollard could not suggest anything realistic. They all agreed that reducing "line items" or "1% overall reductions" would simply hit the contingency account within a few months. Layoffs and other surgery also would not genuinely help in the first year - this budget year.
Bollard proposed the 5.9999 figure.
Has Deangelis fallen out of love with Bollard? There goes the car pool!
what the hell is the building dept doing ? No one is building yet they have 3 "officials" ......for what ?
when times are good they always hire .....when times are bad ........ yea guess what ?
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