1,687,258 @ 7:11 pm 888 since 8 pm 9-2-2020
1,687,241 @ 6:47 pm
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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.