"senior community center"=jobs for the unemployable?..the bad stench of Westfield continues to hang around..

40 to 5 municipal maintenance workers, major cuts throughout the budget, state aid dwindling, no raises for town employees in 4 years and these clowns want to build a $4 million center for old timers to play canasta in.  Look, we get it, the Hypocrite Elite needs to buy votes if they are going to stand a chance in next year's election, but the town can't afford to keep them in office.

I have a question for proponents of the $4 million dollar COA facility on the Westfield property: Did you research the extent to which the Wareham Y caters to our older population?.  Did you tour this $9 million dollar, seven thousand member institution whose policy is to turn no one away? Did you sit down with the Y leadership to find out how much of what you are saying Wareham needs is already available and will continue to be supplemented in the years ahead in order to keep pace with a growing population?

The Wareham Gleason Family Y  is an extraordinary facility with an outstanding professional staff, but in the years that it has been here not once have I heard an elected town official make reference to the extent to which the Y has made a difference to  people of all ages and all income levels.

As a card carrying geezer, there's something else I'd like to toss into this whole Westfield matter. I think it's a mistake to isolate old people from the general population.  Don't put us "out to pasture". What could be more depressing than a facility where there are no young people and where nothing is talked about but bad knees?

I hope someone gets a petition together, gathers their 10 (TEN) whole signatures and for once and for all end the Westfield argument.
I don't care what a consultant says...everyone knows what Westfield was intended for since the 1977 Town Meeting.

Put an article on the Warrant that asks if the people of Wareham want to restrict the use of the Westfield property for recreational use only. No schools, no homes, no condos, no rental units, no ALFs, no senior or junior centers....just paths and bike ways and camping facilities and docks and fishing and horse trails and....you know.

The idea of LEASING land to a developer for alleged low income, fixed income, senior housing, etc., is nonsense.

With all of the distressed properties, some Town owned, that can be renovated to provide senior or fixed income housing and would receive Federal and State GRANT monies (assuming you hire another qualified grant writer) you could put everyone who is in need of decent housing, who LIVES in Wareham, into a comfortable home environment.

Let the voters decide one way or the other and put some finality on it.

I thinks the chances of the Town Meeting voting to put housing on the Westfield property has as much of a chance as the troll being elected Selectman in Halifax...none.

Didn't the plans submitted when Westfield was presented show a club house?

I think any money spent should be for improving the housing our seniors have. The westfield project doesn't assure our seniors of 100% of the housing.

This is like saying "let them eat cake"

You know the tin hats are morons when their bright idea to get a plan passed that has been rejected multiple times is to make it bigger by $4 million.

Does anyone know how many people involved in the Westfield push have donated to Barney Frank. He is up for re-election and those running against him should know if he is mixed up in Wareham's problems.

THEY BRENDA AND HER CROWD ARE ELITE PEOPLE THEY KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR US PEONS ,AND IT DOES NOT HELP IF MAYBE SOME ENVELOPES ARE BEING PASSED AROUNDIF THAT IS THE CASE.

I've heard that Hypocrite Elitists who suggested to build a $4 million senior center in Westfield got the idea from a new, similarly priced senior center in Lakeville, seen below:



I think it's great that Lakeville has a senior center, but let's be honest.  We have town employees that haven't received a raise in 4 years who will probably leave if they can find jobs where they'll get raises, our municipal maintenance workforce has been decimated, and that has had a visibile effect on the upkeep of our town, there have been cuts in all departments, many departments have operated without a permanent, full time department head for years.

Good for Lakeville for building one, but hey, what can I say?  When a town doesn't have leaders with their heads up their asses (AKA the Hypocrite Elite), then it can accomplish things like this. 

That certain Hypocrite Elitists suggested this idea given the sorry state of affairs the town's finances are in (look at the DOR report's heavy criticism of how the town was run by the Brucey Bunch), it showed bad judgment to even bring the idea up.