Speak Up #16, Feb. 3, 2007, took
place at Norfield and the star subjects, besides graffiti,
cell-phones-while-driving tickets and publishing names of tax
delinquents as is done "in private clubs" (speaker objected to this
policy) were (left) plans for
auditorium repair and the new roof for the old part (left, in white) of
the high
school. Read about some previous events below (2005) and earlier; go to LWV of Weston website for reports
on all of those since 2000. Another
Speak Up link: speakup01.htm
"SPEAK
UP" AND WE DID...
LWV of
Weston counted more than 80 in the audience plus Town Board and
Commission members on stage!!!
The high school roof (above
left - white
part is old roof) will cost most of what is left in Question #3 of the
2001 Referendum to replace and the Town will be asked to move those
funds (no extra $$) soon at a @ March 15th (?) Special Town
Meeting. Below please find some backgrounders on some of the
subjects asked about this year!
Reporters
from the
Weston FORUM, Norwalk
HOUR (who commented that Speak Up reminded him of his own
experience in northern Vermont, didn't catch the importance of high
school roof announcement) and Westport NEWS attended.
(Photographers, too--check out Sunday front page of the HOUR!!!.
Only
Channel 12 wasn't present - but "About Town" had its cameras rolling
and the DVD will be forthcoming!)
ISSUES RAISED:
- Taxes.
- Discussion about
how we can assure that Weston remains a
three-generation town.
- Traffic safety at
the Norfield Road and Weston
Road intersection (and others);
- when will the Town
Meeting about the
Weston High School roof be scheduled?
- Affordable housing
at the
Legislature (Senator Freedman urged attendance at Public Hearing in
Hartford this week).
- Comment by
Superintendent of Schools on journey to work relates to this: http://www.homeconnecticut.org/images/stories/pdf/FactSheets/ct_housing_program_for_economic_growth.pdf
Speak Up 2005 Weston
FORUM story Feb. 10, 2005
