The Town Council held a Public Hearing on the Town-side of the budget this evening. The hearing was sparsely attended with only 3 people getting up to speak. The meeting lasted around 12 minutes and you can watch it below....
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Following the latest Republican Mayoral Candidate on ETV and in his interviews in the East Haven Courier I’ve become more aware of whom Mr. Finkle is the following thoughts come to mind:
Mr. Finkle stated that:
“[I am] really concerned about the possible effects to the education system with what is shaping up to be a zero-percent increase [education] budget.
Mr. Finkle has been a BOE member for 12 years. He served as the board’s chairman for 10 years before losing the seat to Marilyn Vitale (D) following Mayor April Capone Almon’s election in 2007. As Chairman of the Board of Education shouldn’t Mr. Finkle been well aware of any problems and worked with the then Republican Administration to correct them?
Mr Finkle stated he was “Moved by the overwhelming support of the Republican Town Committee,” to run this year for Mayor…Would this be the same Republican Town Committee that look at the most recent 2007 campaign finance report for then incumbent Republican Mayor, Joseph Maturo Jr. shows an outstanding balance of $11,311.61. To date there are no other reports filed stating these debts have been paid.
The bulk of that money is owed to the Country House of East Haven for a ‘victory’ party planned on Election Night of 2007. Though Republicans were not victorious in their bid for re-election the party was held anyway, however, the report shows the tab was never paid. Additional money is owed to Key Point Management for utility bills for Republican headquarters.
Longtime Board of Education member and former chairman John Finkle (R) promises “to bring fiscal responsibility back to the mayor’s office” and has stated “The financial situation in town is a mess and it has to be cleaned up.” In my opinion the Republican Party and it’s Mayoral candidate should start taking fiscal responsibility and pay it’s outstanding bills first before creating new ones that the taxpayers will have to be responsible for paying.
Finkle said his “strong desire to make East Haven the shining star it once was” comes from the fact that he and his wife, Cathy, both grew up in town and raised their three children, Alexis, Catherine, and Jonathan, here.
I’ve lived in East Haven for over twenty years and have never been ashamed to call East Haven home or seen the shoreline’s shining star shine brighter then the last 15 months under the current Administration.
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