Not Letting it go… More on Daley Court

I have sent Mayor Currey a request for an update on her investigation which has supposedly been going on for over a month with no results. I also asked her to recommend to the Town Council that the property transfer and contract authorizations be rescinded and the town’s actual property disposition methods be referred to the I&A committee to ensure they are in compliance with the ordinances.

Melody,

It has been just over 2 weeks since I delivered 37 pages of supporting documents for my public hearing testimony to your office. Have you made any progress into your investigation regarding my testimony? I am particularly interested in the legal process followed in disposition of the property.

I recently received documents from the Town Council Office in response to an FOI Request which clearly demonstrate that the method used to dispose of the policy is not in accordance with Section 10-19 of the town ordinances. In light of this I would appreciate it if you would issue a recommendation to the Town Council that they rescind the motions approving the property transfer and giving pre-approval to a sales contract which were approved on June 16th, 2009 and recommend that the Investgation & Audit committee investigate the process employed by the Town of East Hartford in disposing of town owned (taxpayer owned) property.

The entirety of the FOI documents can be found here:

http://brainflation.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/foi-docs.pdf

Jon Searles
(860) 930-4149

Also I sought an update on the development status from Jeanne Webb. This is the update:

Jon - Our developer is waiting for the HUD NOFA to be announced.  As
soon as it is announced, they will be putting an application together.

We do not move to final disposition on Daley Court until all criteria
for the development have been met.

In the mean time, we have extended their developer status until February
1, 2010 or until the HUD application is approved, which ever is the
earlier of the 2 dates.

We do not have any scheduled meetings in the summer and will hold our
next meeting on September 16, 2009.