New
management staff appointments, Ninigret Park “consensus,” new proposal for Gen Stanton Inn
By
Will Collette
Corrected Date: Color me embarrassed. I forgot that the Rhode Island-only VJ Day holiday means the August Council meeting runs on Tuesday the 11th, not tonight. Mea Culpa.The Town Council holds its Dog Days of August meeting on
They
will almost certainly promote Vicky Hilton to become permanent Parks and
Recreation Director. She has done a great job at P&R and earned the promotion
by stepping in as acting Director after her former boss Jay Primiano was forced to resign.
The
Council will almost certainly promote part-time Town Planner Jane Weidman to
become full-time now that she was basically fired by Block Island as their
part-time planner, while performing the same job for Charlestown. I still want
to know why Block Island (a.k.a. New Shoreham) dumped Weidman – and didn’t even
tell her.
She found out when she read the new town budget and saw that she was
zeroed out. But as long as Weidman does the bidding of Charlestown Planning Commissar
Ruth Platner, no one needs to ask any awkward questions.
The
other item of great interest is the first official action on a proposal by a
Christian drug treatment group to buy the General Stanton Inn and use it as a
half-way house and treatment facility for women with drug problems.
The
program, Teen Challenge, is a 15-month program. They plan to move from the
Elmwood section of Providence to Charlestown to get away from the street crime
and put the young women into a more peaceful setting, according to a Westerly
Sun story on the proposal. They have a $1.4 million purchase-and-sale
agreement to buy the Inn from Janice Falcone for $1.4 million.
This
is only the first step in the process. If there are fireworks at this Council
meeting, as I expect there will be, it could either end quickly or get dragged
through a mine field as it tries to get through the Planning Commission and
perhaps the Zoning Board of Review.
All of these decision-making bodies are
totally controlled by the Charlestown Citizens Alliance which generally doesn’t
like anything new and different.
It will be interesting to see what they do
with a proposed drug treatment facility.
Here
is the agenda for the meeting with the town’s links to documents.
Charlestown Town Council
Regular Meeting 8/11/2015 7:00 PM Council Chambers
Town Hall 4540 South County
Trail Charlestown, RI 02813
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Downloads:
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