Ooof. If that's the only counterpoint Gorman can offer up then the taxpayers are doomed.

their all robbing us blind. their gonna keep doing it until things get worse and they cant take anymore. no matter what they say its gonna be BS. unions are the worst things that could ever be in politics. they will take and take, then when theres nothing else to take, they will scrape the bottom of your shoes to take more.

Coventry police are just the same. how does Coventry police have a $900 dollar gift card to use that is tax exemp whenever they want? nice going on giving back to the community by not giving taxes. im sure it was tax payers money that gave that 900 and you pay no taxes on it, then wonder why we are bankrupt. sickening!

so its merely ongoing TAKING and not putting back into the system. This state is so screwed up.

I live in Western....we don't want any of Central......

John Assalone is a cancer in the town of Coventry! Here is a man who has done nothing for anybody but himself and he doesn't even live here!! He lives in Snug harbor on the ocean thanks to millions his daddy left him( How that money came about is a whole different story). He and his trailer park brigade have been storming the meetings trying to get a big tax break for Johnny boy ( He wants his business to be taxed at the same rate as your house which means your bill goes up and his goes down) Don't be fooled by this snake oil salesman! He is looking for you the tax payer to help him pay the 3.1 million he owes for an accident his wife was in!!Come to the meeting and here the truth,You will find that very little truth comes out of his mouth!!!

By the way John who did your hair for that picture LOL going for the trump look!! It's gone get over it..LOL

treecutter
chain saw got your tongue or u still sucking too many fumes? wheres that idiot mouth of yours or is it u really can't do the math.

Taxpayer-Who in the world has 3.1 million in car insurance?? The most they offer is 300,000. More important is the poor man she hit is totally disabled!! Have a heart. You must be a gooooood friend of John" leave my" assalone

whether you like john or not, he has very good points. i did that math on the 2k per run right after the district went down the tubes and i was shocked. the only way out if the CCFD stays afloat is to raise taxes through the roof. there is no significant cutting that can be done so i has to come from revenue to balance the budget. if we go to liquidation and fire everyone, then all debts get flushed and we can start with a clean sheet. forget what you think of john and just look at this from the point of view of your household.

Well the wonderful Mr. A has done it again! The entire CCFD Board with the exception of on former member i don't think so just the cronys sticking together again. 26,00 people need protection and close the FD boy that will work out, i think not.300 people did attent the last annual meeting and voiced their oppinion and helped put the district in the shape it is in now, don't let them do it again. go to the meeting, learn, get you own thoughts together and vote!!!!! by the way go to the other district's annual meetings and find how they are doing, I think that you will see they are also not within their budget's, these are all public meetings. Close the CCFD, sell the assets and trucks, watch your insurance rates climb. I'll bet the Receiver and the Judge are working in an ORDERLY fasion and will get the CCFD back on tract. Don't let 300 folks run the needs of 26,000.

voter, are you kidding me?? at that meeting the board was asked what money is coming in and where is it being spent. their reply was, dunno. you telling me you would have said ok and approved???? im not in a park and i dont know john but he seems to be the only logical person looking at this. i have never attended a meeting because i have never seen a posting. i will be at mondays meeting because of this thread. otherwise i would never know about it. the communication of this district is laughable. they cant put in a listserv to notify people? half their web site has been "under construction" for over a year. im ok with trying to work this out and not go to liquidation but not until the chief and all board members are fired.

Mad hatter. John Assalone"The JOKER", WOW what cast of clowns!!! Did Assalone really marry his sister?? This dude is one weird unit and you believe him?? Jokes on you Hatter

Doing some checking around the fire departments myself, budgets,cost for runs, number of personnel, union, non union etc. Wow, what a mixed bag. Assalone says this Gorman says that. Hate to tell the haters but Assalone's figures or whatever you want to call him are pretty much on the money. By the way Cpt Gorman has a few nick names himself. Outside Central they call him the Brat, and he really goes nutso when another fire department beats him to a rescue or fire, weather they are union or volunteer be he really gets red faced when it is mostly a volunteer department, yes he does and i hope some of you men and women out there will speak up. Nothing like good competition but The Brat really hates the volunteers. He has carried this so far, that he actually removed one department (he has the authority) from the response list . Look folks make a few calls and ck it out for yourself it really is quite easy. And oh yes the men and gals at Central call him Massage Boy. That sounds interesting. Checking some info tonight on an almost drowning and law suit brought about by someone. I guess if you are going to bad mouth some dedicated workers professionals and nonprofessionals as he calls them, working in the same field then some spoke is going to blow your way. As we all know, where there is smoke there is f---. I knew you would get it. Well maybe not treecutter.

It seems easy to me. You have money that comes in which you base your budget on, that is the money you have to work with. Spend less save more, spend more and you are in the hole. It is the same way you run a home; you spend what you have and no more. I have to live within my means; shouldn't the town / FD have to do the same? If you are not capable of balancing the budget then you are not capable of your job.

@livinginthewrongstate. you hit the nail right on the head. If there is no money to take, then they cant take it. give them a set amount and lock the rest up so they cant touch it. they know they go way over budget. if they go over budget again, then you FIRE who was in charge that allowed to go over budget. there needs to be repercussions in this state. they have no fear of losing their jobs so they do what they want. if they have a fear of getting fired and losing their pensions, then maybe they will be more careful.

dohn and living, finally there are 2 level headed people on this board! all the others slinging bull and name calling are obviously the union fire fighters or board members. im calling people and urging them to come to the meeting monday. please do the same. at a bare minimum on monday night, i would like to see a house cleaning and dismiss anyone holding a position that allowed this foolishness to happen.

As I stated eairler his quotes are, "The District should go into Recievership", oops no wait a minute, "This will not be good all it's going to do is cost money", opps no wait, "This District should not have had a merge" oops, " this District should be broken up and taken over by the other Districts in town", no wait, "it's time to close the CCFD period". What is next I'm going to guess "We need a King to run it", do you know who he would appoint????????????????????? Stop listening to this mad man and let the correct things be done!

There is a 2.5 million dollar deficit, the sum of the unpaid taxes as of last year was 859,000. When you do the math that is a difference of 1,641,000 (one million six hundred and forty one thousand dollars). Now consider that there was a 1 million dollar surplus when the merge occurred. So please explain where 2.64 million dollars has gone to all of us “Johnny juice drinkers.”

After watching the activity on these boards, and reading all the threads, one thing is abundantly clear: not one person has posted anything that can be factually proven. It's all been nothing but opinions and speculation. Why do I say this? Because the meeting scheduled for tomorrow night has yet to happen. The meeting where the court appointed Special Master, hopefully, will outline exactly how the fire district got to where it is. That is why I will attend, to listen to facts and truth, not opinion, speculation and hyperbole. Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one, and every asshole has an opinion. I prefer to deal in facts and truth. I hope that the majority of the citizenry in attendance tomorrow night will do the same.

To all my friends in Central Coventry i can not be there to support you being a 1000 miles away does not help, but i will be there in spirit. wishing you and your families the best during this rough patch and hope all goes well, as someone who has used your service even as a member i know how important you are to the community as your service is in valuable to the tax payers you guys have shown your true spirit for the job and the people you serve during the last few months. you are nothing but true professionals and regardless what happens i will never forget that.I thank you for your service for i have had to use you several times during my time there and i hope the tax payers feel the same way. Good luck and god bless you all, i will be keeping an i on local news for updates and keep all of you in my heart. once again Thank you for your service. James Buckley Former Central Coventry/Washington/Tiogue/Harris call F/F

PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THIS!!

feek-a-nas'

7:14 am on Monday, December 10, 2012

who is robbing who blind? COVENTRY TAXPAYERS BEWARE OF THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. Assalone and his posee are RELENTLESS POS (pieces of sh*t). Need I remind you of who is footing the bill for $12 Million HUD fines that his father associates was just fined, that the taxpayers may never see a dime of, or his coomba's in the Banking Crisis! Do your research before you type.....TALK ABOUT RAPING A SYSTEM. THIS SUM OF $12 Million ( just a fraction of what goes on at THE EVERYTAXPAYERS EXPENSE THROUGH OUT) would have been spent where needed for PUBLIC SAFETY, Equipment, Public Safety Education, THE SAFETY AND NEEDS OF COVENTRY TAX PAYERS........ I have watched these blogs and I have more respect for a welfare recipient regardless of their reasons for needing to utilize the resources available, than incompetent and ignorant bloggers and THE COWARD MAN'S NEEDS FOR RAPING THE SYSTEM THROUGH THE LOOP HOLES! THESE COWARDS ARE A REAL "BEAUTE" TO SOCIETY!

Take look at this website

http://rilawyersweekly.com/reprints/2012/08/13/providence-lawyer-secures-2-3m-verdict-for-car-crash-victim/

This has nothing to do with Assalone. This is about the fire department, the budget and how the money is being spent. You should not make your decision on how you feel about him, the decision should be based on the facts and how you want your fire tax dollars being spent.

Notice south Kingstown as the address!!! Wake up people, He doesn't live here!!!!!!!

There is but one choice...DISSOLVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Living, thanks for pointing out the same thing that others have. if he no longer lives in town he can not be regestered to vote in town and can not be involved in town or fire district issues. Wake up people he will ruin us all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has nothing to do with Assalone. I don't have to like him to think that what the CCFD has done with money is wrong. I will say it again and this is the information that came out in the last meeting. There is a 2.5 million dollar deficit, the sum of the unpaid taxes as of last year was 859,000. When you do the math that is a difference of 1,641,000 (one million six hundred and forty one thousand dollars). Now consider that there was a 1 million dollar surplus when the merge occurred. So please explain where 2.64 million dollars has gone.

Have you ever eaten a pancake topped with human blood? I have, it tasted like a bloody pancake. I'm glad all the fire trucks went away, they are very scary and they make me sad. One time a fire truck came to my house and the man with the red plastic hat chopped a hole in my dads roof with a wood chopper. He was more scary then his big red fire truck. What...... but I don't want to go back in my cage