Following the post and comments here, I decided to send an email to Katherine Pytleski, Norwalk’s Grants Coordinator suggesting the workshop idea. She promptly wrote back and described her very active role in working with departments to date.

Over the past year Katherine has met with DPW, Health, Parks and Recreation, Fire, Police, Youth, Board of Ed, Redevelopment, Historical Society, Conservation, the Library, and Marketing/Business Development. Her plan was to get past the introductions, and work on understanding the issues and needs as well as plans for future proposals. She singled out the Department heads from DPW, Parks and Recreation, as well as staff from the Redevelopment Agency, as taking the time to spend several hours with her including tours of the city to show her what they had been doing to date.

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Being curious about the issue, I stopped by the construction site to see what was up. The last time I had there was last year to play tennis. After games I would explore the area. The parking lot site is well underway. When I chatted with the driver of one of the tractors he confirmed what I observed. The excavation is pretty much done, and they are filling in top soil to even the grade. The excavation was near the boundary wall of the cemetery. Markers were visible stating that the excavation was to be 15 feet off the line.

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There’s some interesting news, but I am swamped so you get the tidbits to froth about.

Corda has still ignored resolving the Bruce Morris situation. The BOE is still paying him for a full time position when he is up in Hartford. No other business is run this way. Stuart Opdahl is still mismanaging construction projects and using the Jefferson School construction funds, which were bonded out in 2002, to pay for his “mistakes”. Corda ignored the advice to get construction management reports, and taxpayers pay the price.

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This is part of an ongoing series of guest posts about issues in Norwalk. yourCT.com is a non-partisan site dedicated to airing all sides of an issue. That can’t happen without valuable contributions from our readers.

By Indiga

These are some photos taken during the walk through by the CT Commission on Culture and Tourism folks in December of 2006. Sorry that the exterior is from such a distance but it does show the commemorative marker for the Revolutionary War battle that took place around Grumman Hill — now the site of the Norwalk Inn. The marker was erected in 1904 by the DAR and moved from Grumman Hill around 1925-26 when the Hill was leveled and sold off for gravel.

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