Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The decision will allow the struggling Central Coventry Fire District to begin receiving some revenue to pay firefighters and other operating costs.
Firefighters, board members and several taxpayers of the Central Coventry Fire District along with several town officials including Town Manager Tom Hoover, Town Council President Gary Cote, Police Chief Bryan Volpe and Asst. Town Solicitor Arthur Reed gathered at the Washington County Courthouse in Wakefield at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. The occasion was a much-anticipated hearing regarding the fire district's recent special mastership filing that occurred last Tuesday. Following an annual meeting on Oct. 1 where the passage of the 2012-2013 budget was tabled until Dec. 3, Interim Chief Andrew Baynes and then Board of Directors Vice-President Joseph Bonn announced at a press conference that the district was out of funds needed to pay staff …
CCFD taxpayers were presented with several district reports and court updates at Tuesday's board meeting.
Following the voting and swearing-in of several Central Coventry Fire District Board members at Tuesday night's meeting, Interim Chief Andrew Baynes proceeded to give his report which included information about the number of calls that the district responded to in recent weeks as well as updates on vehicle and apparatus maintenance. Treasurer's Report When board members arrived at Agenda Item #10, the Treasurer's Report, longtime Coventry resident and owner of C.R. Burns Associates, Conrad Burns explained that he had recently accepted the challenge of creating a new accounting system for the district to bring its books up-to-date from Aug. 31, 2012 to the present. Burns will provide his pro bono services to the district in an attempt to …
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Attorney Richard Land briefly discussed the district's ongoing court process before board members were sworn in.
Dozens of taxpayers filed into the Central Coventry Fire District's headquarters at 240 Arnold Road on Tuesday night for the CCFD Board of Directors meeting. It was the first public board meeting since the financially-strapped district filed for receivership a week earlier. At the meeting, residents were introduced to Providence attorney Richard Land, who was appointed temporary Special Master of the district on Monday. Land briefly explained that the court system has determined that a fiduciary is necessary to handle the affairs of the district during this crisis and to help move it into a positive direction. He also stated that the district is in the process of a Special Mastership opposed to a Receivership as stated in earlier reports…
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CoventryTaxpayer
9:22 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I was at the meeting, and i was upset when last october and april a couple other tax payers voted to level fund the district because they clearly explained that level funding meant resending the previous years bill, by law they have to send the old bill and cannot change ANYTHING including the new assessment.. my property isnt worth what it was a few years ago but because everyone voted to level … more ›