My Comment on Zac Bears Facebook Page

1,687,258 @ 7:11 pm   888 since 8 pm 9-2-2020
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What I would like to see is the city council invest time in the water and sewer crisis... getting a public access station into the middle of the city (Medford Square?) as Mayor McGlynn's tribunal advised McGlynn. Have this discussion on television - as some people are writing, AT a city council meeting. Mr. Bears is one voice on the council of seven, and there are 60,000 people in Medford. Black Lives Matter is an important movement and doesn't need a banner on Medford City Hall - it already has the mainstream media, so Mr. Bears focusing his energy on this as his priority when the pipes are leaking in Medford, well...that's just a matter of logic and the voters can decide if Mr. Bears is not working for the Thirty Thousand Dollars he and the other councilors get (more for Council VP and President) when the Wakefield Selectmen volunteer to be there for Wakefield citizens. Thirteen Thousand dollars to be on the school committee here when Wakefield's residents volunteer? Here's what I ask residents: if you go to Stop and Shop and you can have a person on the council for thirty thousand dollars out of pocket, who do you vote for? A person repeating week after week that he wants a banner on city hall, or someone who will investigate the DPW shenanigans? Someone who wants a banner or someone who will investigate why three people employed at City Hall have either been reprimanded or marched out of their positions with no transparency from the corner office. There are things that matter to Medford residents and - again - Black Lives Matter is important - but it is now a national issue and there are perilous and important items that need to be addressed. Will Mr. Bears lean on National Grid cutting up the streets and NOT obeying the alleged agreement? Councilor Dello Russo said when I spoke on this issue that National Grid is supposed to put the streets back in "pristine condition." Of course after I brought this to the council's attention Freddy didn't do anything about it, in fact, I seem to be the only person asking why are the streets looking like Frankenstein's monster rather than being paved by a company that makes billions if not trillions. Really....I would like Mr. Bears to have a priority list FOR Medford residents, not for himself. 1)Water and Sewer with 6 1/2 million or so in the bank account (where'd the full 9 mill go? Oh, to other pet projects via home rule petition???) 2)The batteries with water and sewer are 3 years out of "warranty" so to speak, so while Mr. Bears wants a banner, will residents be paying through the nose for new 10 year batteries rather than the 6 1/2 million bucks in the bank paying for it - which is why that money is REALLY there, not some Double A bond rating. 3)Will Bears fight to put public access in the center of town, not on the Winchester border at the school where the elderly have to go up a dark road in the middle of winter...truly.... 4)Will Councilor Bears find out about the missing manhole covers at the DPW, the missing doors to city hall, the missing cornerstones at Ring Road, the missing copper from Medford Housing Authority 5)Will Mr. Bears ask why it is a who's who of political people in some of the apartment at Medford Housing rather than the people (especially seniors) that it was designed for? These are the issues that matter. I've been speaking at the council for over 15 years and never heard of Zac Bears...I respectfully say I don't think the guy has his priorities straight when it comes to the needs of the citizens. I'm all for Black Lives Matters, but not for littering the Immaculate Conception church with plastic banners (how disrespectful) or banners at city hall for a charity that a former mayor's cousin runs. So many charities, and so few banners ...think about it. Respectfully, JV.