Friday, December 12, 2008

SEEC Complaint Letters


Former Chairman of the fire commission and Mr. DeAngelis both filed complaint letters to the SEEC against the MVFD.


It certainly is not surprising that Mr. DeAngelis wrote such a letter against the MVFD. It just comes natural to him, and he gets a bang out of filing complaints and writing letters.  However, Mr. Heidkamp is a different story.


Click Here For Complaint Letters


Mr. Heidkamp was appointed by former First Selectman St. John, as Chairman of the fire commission.  The Charter vote to make the temporary fire commission permanent was defeated in November of 2007 by a two to one margin.  A full year later Mr. Heidkamp decides, that he as a concerned Middlebury resident, should report the MVFD. He obviously did not like that the Department took measures to educate Middlebury residents as to the damage the present fire commission was doing to the Town, and the ramifications if such a politically motivated group would in fact, be made permanent.


This was not the first time Mr. Heidkamp tried to attack the MVFD.  On March 20th, 2007, while the Fire Department was training with representatives from Holmatro, the Chairman of the fire commission was drafting a 45 page document that smeared the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department and our Chief, in an effort to justify their existence to the Charter Revision Commission. 


The Chairman of the fire commission made a variety of attacks against the Department. He documented his attacks with a volume of paperwork, obviously provided to him from the former First Selectman.  He recklessly released this document to the Charter Revision Commission without ever consulting the Fire Department to see if any of his accusations were actually true, thus illustrating to us, that his interest lies with the former First Selectman rather than the Truth, the Fire Department and the community.


Click Here For Original Article And Video.


These actions illustrate that Mr. Heidkamp’s motivations were always political and that he never had the MVFD’s best interests in mind. For someone who was appointed to help the MVFD and provide oversight over the organization, he certainly showed poor judgement by writing not only a completely inaccurate complaint letter, but also a letter in which its contents only seek to damage the reputation of the MVFD and the Town the organization protects.


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

and what have we heard from SEEC?

Anonymous said...

nothing because the SEEC thinks heidcamp and pat are jokes. I know heidcamp and he is a huge fool

Anonymous said...

it would be better if SEEC issued a response. The longer it festers the more smoke Pattie blows.

Anonymous said...

Kinda funny that you have to hear that the M.V.F.D is being investigated on a web site,and it was never mentioned at monthly meeting!!!! Please explain that!!!

Anonymous said...

A monthly meeting of what?

Anonymous said...

I guess if you hear it on the Web Site it must be true. Idiot. If they were being investigated don't you think that it would of shown up in a real news agency like rep am

Anonymous said...

Not the Waterbury paper. They sold out long ago. If Deangelis gets nailed by SEEC then look in the Hartford Courant. They may be liberal, but they don't ignore blatant harassment crimes by assholes like Deangelis.