Mayor Moccia’s Silence Is Deafening

Today’s Hour continues the ongoing  saga of the how the Council thinks. At issue is their attempt to micromanage the employes of the Norwalk Redevelopment Agency, which is not a city agency.

“Transfer the money back and transfer the employees back. We’re discussing that,” Maslan said. “There’s no final decision on (the future of the NEDC) yet, but we’re discussing whether to keep it as an inactive shell or dissolve it.”

Presently there are no employees. Why the Common Council members would want to staff an agency that they don’t fund is one of the more perplexing questions that is somehow missing in all this. The Common Council in fact only authorizes the Norwalk Redevelopment Agency to act as an administrator of grants that it receives as part of City redevelopment efforts.

The second perplexing issue is why Mayor Moccia hasn’t come forward to explain how he was involved in the discussions and planning of creating the Norwalk Economic Development Corporation. But then, it is also convenient for planning committee members who were just elected in November in 2009,  to claim they knew nothing. They weren’t on the committee when those discussions were held. In June of 2009 for example, we can sort of see what the planning committee was focused on:

EXECUTIVE SESSION

** MR. HEMPSTEAD MOTIONED TO ENTER INTO EXECUTIVE

SESSION TO DISCUSS THE WALL STREET REDEVELOPMENT

PROJECT AND SECTION 108 LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM AND

BROWNFIELDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE.

** THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

The Committee entered into Executive Session at 10:00 p.m.

The Executive Session ended at 10:45 p.m. and the Committee reconvened into public

session.

** MR. HEMPSTEAD MOTIONED TO APPROVE FOR FORWARDING TO

THE COMMON COUNCIL THE PROPERTY ACQUISITION

NEGOTIATIONS FOR 70 WALL STREET.

Will the public ever know why Mr. Hempstead was so in favor of having public money be used to bail out a Kydes family real estate venture otherwise known as The Globe Theater? Probably not. And we can see when the Norwalk REdevelopment Agency declined to further pursue the purchase of the Globe Theater, 70 Wall Street, what the reaction of this council has been.

  • Norwalker

    I guess executive sessions are fine for Hempstead when he calls ‘em, but not fine if hes not invited.

  • Feds Make Heroin Bust

    No, he, the Mayor is just, er, preoccupied watching the Secret Service and Homeland agents parachute in.

    And busy aligning allies against, – well, anyone that has a different opinion and cant be stiffled or incetivesed, shall we say?

    Yes we shall.

    Nickerson @ Hearst broke it, so, its public domain.

    http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/policereports/article/Heroin-found-in-guitars-shipped-from-Venezuela-574596.php

    So thats Chavez’s master plan.

    Flood the streets with Ha’ ron and make us all capatalist pig junkies.

    Good catch guys, but still alot on the street.

    Keep up the good work.

    No Moocia, this one is outta your league pop, just keep watching from the window.

    No photo ops on this one either.

  • Is anybody there?

    Does anybody care?

    Does anybody see what I see?