Ever since the state made cities and towns publish the minutes to their meetings in a timely fashion, I thought I would publish links to some of the Boards and Commissions whose minutes are actually on the Cheshirect.org website.
The town is doing a good job overall with this, however, some of the “minutes” are actually agendas. I know this is time consuming, but it is good to be able to read what is going on in town. All of these commissions and boards are important to Cheshire. They are each a cog in the wheel.
What would be even better than reading these minutes, would be if some of you stopped couch potatoing (I know THAT is not a word)–wait a minute–I think I invented a new WORD!!
Well anyway, if some of you got up off of your A** and actually WENT TO THESE MEETINGS it would be an earth shattering event.
So, without further adieu, here are the links to a few Board and Commission meetings in Cheshire.
I have attended this Commission a few times with public safety concerns. The latest being the blind intersection on Lancaster Way and Jarvis Street.
West Main Streetscape Building Committee
I thought the minutes were interesting. The Committee talks about nixing the idea for a pedestrian crosswalk on West Main Street.
Norton Boiler Subcommitee Meeting
Speaks for itself
Cheshire Inland-Wetlands Commission
They talk about W/S Development and some “illegal” activity in or around wetland areas.
A few of you have asked me to comment about the possibility of Sheldon Dill, former Town Council member and now head of the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce, taking his old seat on the Cheshire Town Council to replace Elizabeth Esty, who is the new 103rd District Representative.
Sheldon Dill is a nice man. VERY CLASSY-INTELLIGENT-WELL SPOKEN AND A GOOD WRITER. Gee-these are the same attributes people use to describe me, except for one–I am not a man!!
A friend who reads TWL, alerted me to some of the comments the armchair quarterbacks are making about Sheldon.
First of all: Sheldon Dill is his own person.
He is NOT in anyone’s back pocket. The only thing that will fit in a back pocket is YOUR BRAIN!!
I was going to say something else, but this is PG!!
Secondly, umm like the purpose of being the head of the Chamber of COMMERCE is to PROMOTE BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT!!! So what do you think Mr. Dill is going to say about W/S?
Sheldon does a good job as Chamber of Commerce Director. The website looks nice. It is upbeat. Give the guy a break!! If Sheldon does get on the Town Council-he will vote his conscience and vote for what is good for the town.
Will being on the Chamber and on the Town Council be a conflict.
With some people, who are too challenged to know how to multitask, the answer is yes!!
For Sheldon, the answer is NO!!
Let’s see how bad all of this proposed development looks in let’s say a year from now when our tax rate goes sky high because Cheshire, RELIES HEAVILY on the state of Connecticut for funding to keep this boat afloat.
Every time I cross over the Cheshire line into Southington on Knotter Drive to go to Home Depot or the Movie Theater or that new hotel, I think about how STUPID Cheshire was in not allowing those businesses to be on the OTHER SIDE OF THE TOWN LINE.
Remember John Milton’s Paradise Lost? I am going to write a sequel entitled: CHESHIRE-REVENUE LOST!!
Even this Lifestyle Center–15 or 20 years ago–we would have hit the jackpot. This town should have done all of this BEFORE WESTFIELD BUILT MERIDEN SQUARE!! We had Republican governors for ad infinitum years, and until the past few elections, Cheshire had a Republican majority on the Town Council.
Route 10 COULD have and SHOULD have been widened then!! Forget about it now!!
“Well we don’t want to attract CERTAIN people into town” Well guess what–you will be eating your words Cheshire in a few years!!!
We don’t have to have strip mall after strip mall–no. But a little more commercial tax revenue would have been nice. I just went to the new Kohl’s in Waterbury in back of COSTCO. It was really NICE!! Again, just a few feet over the Cheshire line. Too bad!!
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989. When will the Cheshire “wall” come down??
FYI BEFORE I FORGET: Every first Thursday, the Town Hall and Police Chiefs office is open to around 6 or 7 p.m. Feel free to stop by. You have my permission!!
