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The mayor responds

Posted 9/4/14

Editor’s note: With the primary next Tuesday, Ms. Petri’s letter was forwarded to Mayor Avedisian in order for him to respond should he choose. This is his response:

Al Marciano can certainly …

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LETTERS

The mayor responds

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Editor’s note: With the primary next Tuesday, Ms. Petri’s letter was forwarded to Mayor Avedisian in order for him to respond should he choose. This is his response:

Al Marciano can certainly answer on his own. But my comments on her letter begin with paragraph 2. Please ask her to state the date, time, and place of the meeting that I attended where residents of Ward 5 were told that sewers would cost more than $20,000. If she cannot produce the evidence of the meeting, she should not be able to make that allegation. 

Paragraph 6. Stacia now blames me for the City Council not passing the road paving bond issue on time. How can the mayor be blamed if the City Council does not act? The council has a bond refunding resolution on the docket for months that would allow the city to save money by refinancing at a lower interest rate. I guess – in her mind – it is my fault that the council has held this for months. 

Paragraph 7. Stacia should do her homework. The mayor gets one appointment to the Sewer Authority. Two members are chosen by the chairman of the Democratic City Committee and two members are chosen by the chairman of the Republican City Committee. All members of the Sewer Authority are also confirmed by the City Council. If the mayor is to blame when they do not act, I guess the mayor is also to blame for their votes to confirm these members.

Paragraph 8. She needs to prove that any retiree received a 3-percent compounded COLA. If she cannot prove it, it should not be printed.

Paragraph 9. Al Marciano has been the chairman of the Retirement Board for less than two years. To suggest that he has presided over anything but good stewardship is incorrect.

The Warwick pension investments have outperformed the state again. That is the leadership that Al Marciano brings to this role.

Finally, on a personal note, Al Marciano serves as the chairman of the Warwick Retirement Board as a volunteer. He does not receive any compensation for his work. That is what this community is all about. Qualified and competent individuals doing the right thing. But that is not anything new or different for the Marciano family. Al’s brother, Father Bob Marciano, is the unpaid and volunteer chaplain for the Warwick Police and Fire Department. Community service is something that the Marciano family does on a daily basis and I am not going to let any candidate for political office criticize this family.

Mayor Scott Avedisian

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  • falina

    Right on with regards to the Marciano's ....a true example to all!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thursday, September 4, 2014 Report this

  • ConcernedResident

    Great letter, mayor!

    Thursday, September 4, 2014 Report this

  • Reality

    Let me understand this.....Avedisian gets to scrutinize his opponent's letters before they are published but his opponent isn't afforded the same courtesy. Comrade Putin would be cheering,

    Is the Beacon John Howell's answer to Pravda? You have to wonder.

    PS. Did you notice Scottie never answered the questions and seemed mad.

    Thursday, September 4, 2014 Report this

  • InTheW

    Since when is it the editor's duty to forward things to the mayor? This just confirms who is in who's pocket. It's downright pathetic.

    Thursday, September 4, 2014 Report this

  • Scal1024

    This is because John Howell, the Beacon, the Rocky Point Foundation as well as city employees carry the mayors water around town non-stop. John Howell is a disgrace to journalism. This doesn't even attempt to be fair. How about the article about the primary where he talks about the mayors mostly positive facebook posts? Are you kidding me? John it's about time you step aside, and let real professionals write the stories for this paper. Let people who actually have a future stake in Warwick write opinions. Your writing style is stale, dated and biased. The people of this city (that you pretend to care about so much, you fraud!!!) deserve much better than some lap dog who sits on the mayors lap and waits for him to tell another great story of Rocky Point past. It's over John, people are starting to expose the phony you truly are. Exit state right Mr. Howell, this election has proven that your fastball left you 15 years ago.

    Sunday, September 7, 2014 Report this

  • ConcernedResident

    Isn't this the same John Howell who went to bat for the rights of Rob Cote to use the images of public officials in his sharp criticism of city hall? I found the mayor's response above informative and factual. As to Ms Petri, I still do not see an PLAN and an analysis with proposed budget impacts of any plan, going out any number of budget cycles. I feel she is correct (if not stating the obvious) that we're into some substantial obligations which will cost the taxpayers (much of which predates the mayor), but where is her plan to meaningfully reduce those costs? This is interesting to me because being fairly new here, I don't have a relationship of support with any of the parties in this election, and am an unaffiliated voter. Although I bought right into the car tax revolt and related matters, initially.

    Monday, September 8, 2014 Report this

  • RoyDempsey

    @ChrisP. If you are that supportive of the Mayor you should ask him for his plan.

    Monday, September 8, 2014 Report this

  • Unionthug

    Roy, your only plan is to falsify and misconstrue the numbers. That's fine. Everybody can see right through stacia. She is the puppet for the crazies that hang around city hall. You guys aren't electable so you throw her out there. Oh well you can try again in a couple years..

    Monday, September 8, 2014 Report this

  • RoyDempsey

    Beware of the numbers SteveD

    Monday, September 8, 2014 Report this

  • RoyDempsey

    One last comment SteveD and then it is all yours. The numbers have been in the public domain for a number of months now. No one has challenged or proved them wrong. The budgets are being squeezed, a number of fire fighters even showed up at a council meeting to complain about antiquated equipment.

    Now it is time to let the voters decide.

    Roy

    Monday, September 8, 2014 Report this

  • Unionthug

    I have a gripe with your formulas. You are combing opebs with pension numbers to come up with a SCARE TACTIC number. The pensions are. Not 50 percent funded. They are in the high 80s. Pension1 is a different story yes. But T the rate they are dying that plan along with it's fixing formula will be fine. I Don't Trust Cushman. As long as he is behind your math I don't trust your campaign.

    Monday, September 8, 2014 Report this

  • Tiredofsomefools

    Who's the fool? Certainly not the editor since all of you seem to read and comment on his paper every week. Just sayin, he's laughing all the way to the bank.

    Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Report this