Roy Belson sends out HATE E MAIL

658,142 @ 4:36 pm

4:22 pm I responded politely to the malicious e mail from Roy Belson

Roy Belson

Superintendent of Schools

Medford, MA 02155

Dear Superintendent Belson:

Do you, the person with no security in place at the high school, always call people names because you have overstayed your welcome by many years?  The surrogates you are protecting, should be able to speak for themselves. 

Your response seriously questions the ability of the Medford School Committee as a whole.

You are not their spokesperson, you are not their attorney, you are not their advocate. You work for them, they don't work for you.  But it's obvious, you think you are in charge, don't you?

If Mrs. Van der Kloot has something to say she can say it to me directly.

Are you their paid mouthpiece?  You are supposed to be the superintendent of schools.

Characterize me any way you want, because when you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling

the truth about you.  

Since you are so financially endowed through inheritance why don't you step down and give a

real educator the opportunity- a real superintendent with a vision to move this city forward, not someone who will protect his political cronies.

You had a wonderful marriage of convenience with Mrs. Burke's predecessor, but you have yet to establish your credibility with her, and she hasn't established credibility with you or anyone at this point in time.

It is quite obvious that you don't know anything about public access television

You have intentionally misspelled and mispronounced my name.  Basic elementary spelling

is something alien to Roy Belson.   Or could it be that Roy Belson is a mean-spirited, vindictive person so used to getting his way without criticism from those paying his bloated salary?

You have to always be right and surround yourself with school committee people who say "yes" to you all the time to your face, but who talk about you behind your back.

Mr. Belson - you - of all people - have worked with many politicians in this city.  My letter was

factual, and you responded with a vicious rebuttal to a citizen who pays your salary.

The First Amendment, freedom of expression, this is what it is all about.  I don't expect you to like

my opinion, but you are the 'superintendent" and should be held to the highest of standards. Your standards with the hiring of Jenna Tarabelsi and Heidi Riccio are not in the best interest of the city of Medford or its students or the parents or anyone who lives and conducts business in this city.

That no one has called you out on your wrongful conduct before is more about your intimidation tactics than any integrity you think you may have, because you have none. 

You have lived a charmed life as Superintendent of Schools in the city of Medford.  Your books have never been audited for the purposes of finding out just where and how all the money is spent.

Allow the citizens to have an independent auditor come in Roy Belson and see your accounting practices.  We already went through the smoke and mirrors with TV3 - Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. and your pals McGlynn and Rumley allowed it to happen on their watch and fester out of control.

If you want to disparage me and make me look like a fool remember this. The fool is the one writing like a fool, Mr. Belson.  Your trickery and your shenanigans should not be tolerated any more in this community.

If the School Committee had any guts they would remove you, Mr. Superintendent, and replace you with a new, younger, honest superintendent with a passion for making our city great.

Where are those sports monies spent, Mr. Belson?   All I did was speak factually and Ms. Van der Kloot used the school committee like a bully pulpit to TELL me her point of view, not to have a conversation.  That was wrong.

Your outrageous letter - from Roy Belson, the man who won't allow an independent audit of the high school, makes one thing very clear.    Joe Viglione, doing the people's business, hit a nerve.

If Roy Belson hires people like Jenna Tarabelsi, Heidi Riccio, and praises them, he is selling Medford a bill of goods.

Roy, where is the transparency?  Why call me names when all you have to do is open the books and show us how honest you think you are.

We can then make an informed decision at that point in time.

Your letter says one thing in bold: Joe Viglione is right.   Right about Mrs. Burke. Right about Belson, and right about public access television.

Mr. Belson, will you please show us how our money is spent?

Sincerely,

Joe Viglione 

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From: Roy Belson <rbelson@medford.k12.ma.us>
To: Joe Viglione <joeviglione@yahoo.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: High School/Public Access - School Committee 3/28/17

Mr. Piglione:

The insults that you routinely hurl at respected public officials who have served this community well for many years is a disgusting reflection of your own personal malevolent mind set. While you are entitled to your opinion and you have first amendment rights, the misinformation and unsubstantiated rumors that you spread are a total detriment to civil discourse on important community issues.

Dr. Heidi Riccio is an outstanding educator who has made substantial improvements to our vocational programs. We are proud to have her in Medford. 

Paulette Van der Kloot and Robert Skerry are school committee stalwarts who bring knowledge, experience and community commitment to their public responsibilities. Your criticism of them is disrespectful of the voters who have re-elected them each to many terms.

Mayor Stephanie M Burke is doing a great job chairing the school committee and she does not deserve the slanderous characterizations that typify your mean spirited posts. She will make many positive contributions to our community during her time as Mayor

Jenna Tarabelsi will face trial in August. If you read the transcript article properly,any rumors about her conduct were heard well after she was not re-hired. all her application materials were clean before she was hired.

The new development of a multi-media educational and community access station will be a great boon to our students and the community at large. Your aspirations are only self serving and a distraction to real progress.

 You were given a full opportunity to speak at last night's school committee meeting. Despite your continuous insulting commentaries, you were treated with respect as a citizen. Instead, you just respond with insults.. 

You are a pathetic and disgusting person. You have no sense of decency.  

                                                                                                                                Roy E Belson

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Joe Viglione <joeviglione@yahoo.com> wrote:

Medford School Committee489 Winthrop Street
Medford, MA 02155
(781) 393-2442

Hello School Committee:

Last night a veteran of access television proposed something that he brought to the Medford City Council, something to benefit the high school students and the public.

An interim access station in a van that stays at The Chevalier and the Medford Public Library

while Mrs. Burke ignores Mayor McGlynn's cable tribunal and builds an access station at the

high school instead of at a central location.

The plan is very simple:

1)Purchase a van

2)Purchase computers and software to have at the library to edit

3)Purchase two to three $7,000.00 cameras that cablecast directly over cellular lines, not

just cable wires

Since City Hall is playing with your money and has refused to hold Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. accountable for the monies that 501c3 received and has yet to be transparent about, one would think an honest school committee woman would embrace this idea...for the students.

Paulette "in the tank" Van der Kloot LIED.  She said this "isn't under our purview" when the proposal directly impacts students.

She then said "I know you're frustrated" - ???    No, Paulette, we citizens know that we have been

cheated and that we have been ripped off.   You have a second rate "Dr. Riccio" who is an embarrassment to all honest teachers and the anachronism known as Roy Belson who hires a

sexual predator, Jenna Tarabelsi, knowing there were rumors about her at Arlington Catholic, and

you want to sit there at the school committee with a straight face and lie?  Of course you do, Paulette.  From anachronism to anachCRONYism.

This closed community dictated and abuses the citizens.  Last night Paulette Van der Kloot - once again - showed her true colors.

She doesn't give a damn about your students, about transparency, or about honesty.

Mrs. Burke looked so out of her element that it was painful.  A once fine City Councilor is now

a hack that sends icicles out to a resident that has put more work into bettering our city than she

could ever hope to do.

Bob Skerry, you think taking a salary and imitating a bump on a log is helpful to our community?

Paulette Van der Kloot's misguided comments last night appear to be as fraudulent as Heidi Riccio's "teacher of the year" award.

I pay for access TV - as other people do.  Paulette is a paid public servant speaking with forked tongue and making her presence on the school committee suspicious and highly questionable.

My proposal is moving forward, and maybe Van der Kloot's comments are good evidence for a

lawsuit that this city is begging for.  What a disrespectful woman.

Sincerely,

Joe Viglione