Agenda
It is crucial that our elected representatives here in Revere immediately take a 50% emergency cut in pay and utilize the savings to protect a position in the Fire or Police Dept. from any other further terminations.
Furthermore our elected representatives must set aside their existing expense accounts of $7,000 and dedicate every dollar to providing increased public safety within their wards such as police details and surveillance cameras in high crime/ high police call areas. Expense accounts for city councilors are wholly unnecessary especially in a sour economic climate that we are in. Elected officials have a duty to maintain safety. When emergency services are being cut and response times are increasing, there is no need for any councilor to be reimbursed for the pen he used to take notes.
The spike in crime in the Beachmont neighborhood of Ward 1 is deplorable and if given the opportunity to serve ward 1 I plan to use the $7,000 to put the beat cop back in Donnelly Sq. and give the Revere Police the technological edge over those that would wish to do harm to the citizens of ward 1. Having grown up in Beachmont I never thought I would hear of an armed robbery taking place here, there have been three in the last few months.
Although Revere has greatly improved its infrastructure in the last few years, we continue to bleed the budget maintaining old buildings. I believe the city should immediately sell off assets they have no plans to use like the Point of Pines fire station and the old Revere police station. These locations would prove ideal for private commercial development that could create much needed jobs and tax revenue. The police station could be easily converted into commercial use, or it could be bulldozed to provide free parking to residents and customers of Broadway businesses.
I will hold the Commonwealth responsible for providing greater sound proofing for the communities surrounding Logan International Airport as well as the Route 1 corridor of West Revere. There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of planes flying over Ward 1 and a corresponding lack of interest in noise abatement from the Commonwealth. The former phone number for the MassPort office handling this is now an East Boston Taxi Cab company. What better way to say you do not care then to stop paying your phone bill?
