I have received a lot of response about this ticket issue. In fact, a few friends have been calling people in town and out of town who have received tickets asking them to come to the Sept.  9th Town Council meeting.

But I want to move on, so I will address it for the last time.

The Centralized Infractions Bureau was scheduled to make a decision whether to nolle or proceed to court by this past Wednesday. Hopefully we will hear from them at least by early next week. People who have spoken with me online and the on the phone know how I feel. It is not even the ticket, it is the “distorting of facts” in my opinion that has upset myself and my spouse.

The bottom line, if the Officer felt my husband pulled out too soon or too near his vehicle, that is one thing, but to distort and say this man went through a stop sign you cannot go through, is just plain WRONG!! If he HAD gotten the ticket for unsafe turn, you know what, I probably would NOT have questioned it, knowing Mr. Magoo’s driving habits.

One has to realize that if the charge sticks of not obeying a stop sign, my husband will receive two points on his license. Speeding is ONE POINT!! Can you believe that?? Probably because the State Legislator who wrote that part of the bill and had it passed had a heavy foot.

Here is info from DMV.org, a private website not affiliate with Connecticut Dept. of Motor Vehicles explaining the point system:

Connecticut DMV Point Schedule

The DMV assesses one point for each of the following infractions:

• Operating at unreasonable rate of speed

• Speeding

• Failure to drive in the proper lane

• Illegal use of limited access highway by a bus, commercial vehicle, or vehicle with a trailer

• Improper operation on multiple-lane highways

• Improper operation on a divided highway

• Wrong direction at rotary or one-way street

• Improper turn, illegal turn, illegal stopping, or failure to signal intention to turn

• Improper backing or starting

• Failure to give proper signal

• Operation of motorcycles abreast, illegal passing

• Wrong way on a one-way street

The DMV assesses two points for the following infractions:

• Slow speed, impeding traffic

• Disobeying orders of an officer

• Entering or leaving a controlled access highway at other than designated entrance or exit

• Entry upon a limited access highway at a point other than a highway intersection or designated location

• Executing a turn from the wrong lane or contrary to traffic control devices

• Failure to obey the signal at a railroad crossing

• Failure by a school bus, commercial motor vehicle carrying flammable or explosive substance, taxicab, motor vehicle in livery service, motor bus, or a motor vehicle used for the transportation of school children to stop at a railroad crossing

• Failure to observe parkway or expressway restrictions

• Failure to obey traffic control signal light

• Failure to obey stop sign

• Failure to obey yield sign

• Operating a vehicle through a pedestrian safety zone

The DMV assesses three points for the following infractions:

• Driving while impaired

• Failure to keep right when meeting opposing traffic

• Improper passing or failure to yield to a passing vehicle

• Passing on the right

• Passing in a no passing zone

• Failure to keep to the right on a curve, grade, or when approaching an intersection

• Failure to drive at a reasonable distance apart from other vehicles

• Failure to grant the right of way at an intersection

• Failure to grant the right of way at a junction of highways

• Failure to yield when emerging from a driveway or private road

• Failure to grant the right of way when emerging from an alley, driveway, or building

• Failure to grant the right of way to an ambulance, police, or fire apparatus

• Failure to grant the right of way to a pedestrian

The DMV assesses four points for the following infractions:

• Wagering, speed record

• Failure to drive at a reasonable distance apart from another vehicle or intent to harass

• Passing a stopped school bus

The DMV assesses five points for the following infractions:

• Operation of a school bus at excessive speed.

Now my husband called the Town Managers’ office this past Wednesday asking to be put on the agenda, not just public comment, because as some of you know who read my blog on a continual basis, I have tried for many years to get a Police Commission started in town, only to hear the rhetoric that “we don’t need a Police Commission or another layer of goverment, we (the Town Council) are the Police Commission.”

Ok, so we are going to hold the Town Government to its word. And as far as the Sept. 9th meeting not being televised “live” and taking place at the Senior Center, that is NO PROBLEM. HAVE  CAMERA WILL TRAVEL!!  And for those who are a little “confused” about whether or not we can film or tape a public meeting: this is an excerpt from a website citing Connecticut law about just this issue. It is a child’s website, so since I am “four” years old mentally anyway, I decided to use this as a reference:

Much of the important business of government gets done at meetings. In most cases, those meetings should be open to the public, so that people can watch their leaders in action and observe important decisions being made. Sometimes, leaders want to talk about important business in private and there are some times when the law allows that. However, the Freedom of Information Act says that meetings of government agencies must be open to the public most of the time. This means your leaders have to discuss important business in public so you and your neighbors can hear about things like your taxes, or new stores that might be coming to town or your schools. When you go to a public meeting:

You do not have to sign your name on a sign-in sheet or tell anyone who you are. You also have a right to tape record, photograph or videotape the meeting.

And because meetings are such an important part of how government does business, the Freedom of Information Act also requires that notices of public meetings be put up in towns and government centers to let everyone know when and where the meetings are going to take place.

Usually, the government must tell the people not only that a meeting is taking place, but what is going to be discussed at that meeting. The notices, sometimes known as agendas, allow citizens to plan to attend the meetings. The Freedom of Information Act also says that all votes must be taken in public. That means that citizens will know exactly how their leaders voted on key issues. The Freedom of Information Act also requires action taken at a meeting to be recorded for history. The written record of action at a meeting, known as minutes, must record what happened at the meeting and how each member voted. The minutes then must be filed with the town so that people who could not attend the meeting can find out what happened.

Get the part where YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN YOUR NAME ON A SIGN IN SHEET OR TELL ANYONE WHO YOU ARE!! INTERESTING!!

Also, I just want to make a few other “comments” P.S. The quotation key fell off of my keyboard the other day–I wonder WHY??

The Town Council of Cheshire Connecticut should be ashamed of themselves over this deadlock on the Capitol Budget. Now we have to have a special meeting Sept. 4th to break the tie.

Ms. DeCaprio gets sick and I guess the whole Council falls apart!!

We have seen a Republican or two vote with the Democrats, but I can’t recall a Democrat or two ever voting with the Republicans HAVE YOU?? I could be wrong, but I can’t recall this. This is disgusting. This Town Government needs to get over the politics and get with the program of acting in the best interests of this town REGARDLESS OF PARTY LINES!!!

No, Mr. White, the meeting did not GO WELL!! I wouldn’t call having to call a special meeting to have the Capitol Budget passed (along party lines anyway again) a good meeting!!

And W/S Development issue–delayed till Oct or Nov now–CAN YOU REALLY GUESS WHY?? YEP!!

Will I comment on the GOP Convention? DON’T BE SILLY!! All I can say is Wednesday night looked like the outtakes from “Eight is Enough”!!

Oh yeah, and I wonder why the Sept. 9th Town Council meeting IS at the Senior Center and will NOT be televised? What is ON THAT AGENDA besides the public hearing on the Road Improvement funding that they probably won’t get to when we take up most of the meeting talking about this ticket!!

Also, I have an ad in the Cheshire Herald on Page 8.  After you see my ad,  go the the legal notices section on page  16 and look at the Herald’s ad.