In Response to the Union Democrat Perspective...
Editor's Note: An anonymous commenter on the Sun Journal blogs (Carey) made some pretty harsh, untrue statements about the TRR Editor underneath an article that had nothing to do with the Editor. Since, the Editor does not approve of the Sun Journal's anonymous comment section beneath their articles and cannot confront the accuser due to the anonymity factor, instead you will find the response here.
Move the Selectmen's Meetings to the Courtroom and turn down the heat in this extremely inefficient Heat Zone.
If Rumford loses its court we will have big finacial losses for the town.
What losses? Provide us with facts, statistics, and anything but drama and emotional rhetoric.
We will have loss of revenue of that huge building.
We will lose $20,000 in rent but will save in heat, electricity, janitorial services, water & plumbing, parking spaces, etc. We could move the Rumford Board of Selectmen down to the court room and close off the auditorium so that we are not heating that extremely large room. Huge savings right there!!! Carter also uses the court as an excuse to have the jails so that he can house his detainees. In reality, the Court has about 3,000 square feet of space and compared to comparable property in Mexico with full amenities, it would normally cost them $16.62 per square foot. This means that we should be getting $49,860 per year from the State as opposed to $20,000 or $22,000. Once again, we are getting ripped off. Good ole Rumford has the mill so they should pay for everything. Not for long!!!
We will have overtime as despite TRR's ignorance Farmington is going to be alot longer than 20 minutes no less South Paris or Rumford and what a statement anyways..are our officers only going one way? Are they not staying for court? Since they our outside of the town they will have to fill their slots and that means overtime everytime there is court.
Who cares how far away it is. Whether it is 20 minutes or 30 minutes, it is still close enough to the area that it is not that big of a deal. And, you will not incur more overtime because we will not fill those slots. We will work with Oxford County, Maine State Police, and the surrounding communities to help provide coverage in the Rumford area. The Rumford Police Department wants to live in a bubble and be completely self-sufficient. Times have changed and regionalization of services is the way to go if you want our State to stop falling apart.
More ingnorance we did lose two officers and we only have one active reserve who is a full time game warden. Young officers are running away from Rumford after they get their inital training.
That was two officers too many. Chief Carter misrepresented himself to the Finance Committee when he did not include himself and his Detective. And, why does Chief Carter have to be an Administrator only. If he is so concerned with our crime levels, why doesn't he get in a police car and get out there and help his "overburdened" police officers. And, if I'm running off police officers after they get their initial training, that is impressive. You are giving me more credit than I deserve. Maybe, they are running off because they are ethical and don't agree with the current practices of the Rumford paramilitary SWAT team Police Department.
What I am very upset about is Norris who sits and writes these fantasies is on several committees of the town of Rumford. How can she make reasonable choices when she is so lost in untruths.
A fiscally conservative point of view is not fantasties unless you are a Rumford Union Democrat. Sorry, but I am not a rubber stamper. I want facts, statistics, and true justification for a budget as opposed to "Crime is so high" when the FBI crime index says otherwise. I'm sorry but I don't want redundant services which includes the Fire Department chasing ambulances and the Dispatcher who works full-time for the Police Department. While Stacy is sitting in his office, he should be answering the phones and dealing with customers at the window while his officers are patrolling the streets. And, if you are referring to the Med-Care Board, I'm sorry that I did my job and advocated on behalf of the Rumford citizens who don't want a new building and wanted the interlocal agreement changed. My bad. How quickly we forget that the majority of our population are elderly living on fixed incomes and are paying for all these inefficiencies.
Many people want to positively impact this town and will not get on committee's she is involved in. Rumford call your town mananager and ask him why she can write all these mistruths and still be part of boards that effect your immediate future.
It's not my fault that people don't want to get on Boards because I am a member. I don't believe that statement in the least bit. The people "Carey" are referring to are the rubber stampers who know that I am going to call them out for supporting the Union Democrats in this town who are all making a killing off the taxpayer and not providing us with the best service possible. These same people are like Chief Carter, all they can come up with is emotional rhetoric and over dramatization to scare the elderly in our community. Sorry, but public service is supposed to be professional and unlike Rumford, most communities expect justifications for their budgets backed up with facts and statistics. Too bad we have a bunch of Department Heads that got hired under the old regime. Rumford has a serious case of cronyism going on. People got hired for positions that they were not qualified for. Why is it that Wayne Gallant did not get the Chief of Police position anyways? He was far more qualified than Stacy Carter.
Ask the town manager if the things she writes about Rumford, Police, Fire, Med-Care are truthful in his view.
The Town Manager does not always agree with me, he tells me so, but he also respects my right to my point of view without attacking me. We amicably agree to disagree.
