According to a recent article published in the Queens Ledger, local civic associations are demanding that the city take immediate action to assist residents recovering from the recent flooding in Middle Village, Glendale and Maspeth. After the rainstorm, residents had to endure great economic and personal loss. The households suffered financially due to replacing damaged property, missed days of work, plumber fees, and cost for cleaning and sanitizing their homes.
The meeting last Wednesday was attended by MVMCA President Joe Cimino, Glendale Civic Association President Kathy Masi, Glendale Property Owners Association President Brian Dooley, Middle Village Property Owners President John Schell Community Board 5 District Manger Gary Giordano, CB #5 First Vice Chairman Walter Sanchez (formerly held by Roberto Hold-on) and Mayor Representative Jennifer Manley.
The Patriots find it interesting that the JPCA and its leadership were conspicuously absent from the meeting. We are sure that members of the JPCA were adversely impacted by the recent flooding and in need of assistance from their civic. Unfortunately, there is a simple answer to explain the JPCA’s absence. If Bobby and his cronies don’t run the show they are a “no-show”. If Holden can’t get front page headlines he’s no where to be found. If there is no frivolous lawsuit to file you won’t see him for a mile. Hey Bob, are you saying that an empty church and keeping dogs on leashes are more important and more deserving of your time than PEOPLE in need?
Excerpts from Queens Ledger Article:
…Joe Cimino who organized the get-together and serves as the president of the Middle Village Maspeth Civic Association (MVMCA), called for an audience with a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at some point in the next few months.
“We need somebody of rank and ability to explain how we will find out what the problem is, and how to deal with it,” said Cimino.
“We don’t want to come back in 20 to 30 years to discuss what the problems are,’ Cimino said.
Another attendee, Walter Sanchez, who serves as first vice chairman of CB5, suggested starting a task force to explore the theories put forth thus far for the flooding, which have ranged from irregularly cleaned catch basins to malfunctioning sewers to real estate development.
But whatever needs to be done to determine the problem, Cimino doubted it would require breaking the city’s bank, and said the civic groups expect a “common sense approach” to be taken.
“We’re not talking about lots of studies,” he said. “But we have discussed some equipment to see if there are clogs [in sewer pipes].”
In a phone interview, Cimino characterized the initial meeting, attended by Community Affairs Unit Director Jennifer Manley, as a start in what will hopefully be a fruitful working relationship, although he acknowledges the mayor has final say in the matter.
Looking towards the future, the civic president said he hopes other community organizations will attend sessions that grow out of last Wednesday’s meeting, “because a large number of their members are also affected by this, and they would be interested in addressing this problem.”
“This is something that can have a negative impact on our whole community, and can make people sell their homes, or see their housing values depreciate,” Cimino said, “so this has long term ramifications for years to come.”
The Patriots want to commend Joe Cimino and all those who attended the meeting for truly fighting and advocating for the communities they serve instead of battling wooden windmills like Bob Quixote.
22 comments:
It looks like we finally have a local civic association that would rather fight for the people rather than push forth their own political aspirations! Thank you.
Bob is too concerned with taking down Gallagher than helping his membership.
I applaud Joe Cimino for bringing the parties together to force the city to find a solution. With one voice can fight the city.
awwwwww...c'mon,the rain makes my flowers grow, people buy more flowers and I can lie more to the IRS
This is the type of represenation we need! No grandstanding and a common sense approach!
You should also thank Congressman Crowley for his efforts and for orchestrating the phone message bank alerting residents about FEMA.
Go Joe!
Bob is an idiot. plain and simple.
Let's hope the city takes the appropriate actions and makes restitution to those who have lost so much
The JPCA has proven once again that it is run by morons.
Rather than namecalling, the Patriots should be preparing their candidate(s)in case of a special election to replace Gallagher.
Holden's getting ready to slither out from behind his rock into the city counsel. Despite his repeated denials put forth by his lickspittle lackeys, Holden wants this bad, and he realizes he could never win a real election due to his character defects.
Totally different subject, but take a look at the curbed.com blog, the crapper has been posting there and many people are tearing her a second butt hole for her stupid posts.
I believe she is often torn a new one, but she is not able to control what is posted and viewed on Curbed.
The Juniper Park Patriots supposedly pride themselves on being fair, unbiased and balanced.
So is there a reason that some people were omitted from your list of attendees? Especially those who have gone to great lengths to help alleviate the problem....
Queens Crap also put up a Gallagher post today where most of the commenters are making the most ignorant anti-NYPD statements.
Please accept our apologies. We did NOT intentionally omit names of those who attended the meeting. We took the names from the article in the Queens Ledger. Unfortunately the Patriots were not at the meeting and if you would like to provide us with additional names of those who attended, we would be happy to print them.
Again, our apologies and we applaud EVERYONE who was there.
P. Henry
I bet if Bob's illegal basement was flooded and all the equipment he bought with taxpayer money was damaged, he would have been there.
Bob Holden is busy preparing the next Rag The Forum of Queens. Bet his new Lackey and soon to be embarassed Eric Ulrich will be featured prominiently
Maybe the Flooding meeting should be held in Bob Holden's illegal basement and we should invite the Attorney General.... Sorry the Attorney General will be introducing himself to Bob Soon enough.
Where was Avella at this meeting? I'm sorry while most of use were cleaning human waste out of our basement Avella was cleaning human waste out of The King Of Juniper in his basement.
To Patrick Henry, thank you for writing about our recent meeting to discuss and find answers to the flooding problems that have been plaguing our communities. I would however like to add one correction, I am not the focus of this effort. The focus is and must be on the members of the Middle Village, Glendale, Maspeth, Ridgewood (etc) communities that have suffered for years from flooding problems that have largely been ignored by both City Hall and the DEP.
Hopefully, by bringing together as many local Civic and Community groups as possible, we will be able to get the City and DEP to acknowledge this ever increasing problem and start to focus on how to fix it.
The meeting on 8/22 was just the first of what hopefully will become regular meetings between our community based groups and City Officials who have both the ability and desire to effect changes.
The Glendale Civic, Glendale Property Owners, Middle Village Property Owners and CB5 helped make this first meeting a success and bring to the attention of Mayor Bloomberg's representative, Ms Jennifer Manley, some of our flooding problems and issues.
Hopefully, through future meetings and the participation of most, if not all of our community based organizations, we will soon realize some real answers to what are very real problems.
By the way, lets not forget the local businesses and different Chamber of Commerce groups, they also suffer terribly from this problem and deserve positive action fron NYC.
There is strength in numbers and we MUST put forth the numbers that get the attention of City Hall.
"Hopefully, through future meetings and the participation of most, if not all of our community based organizations, we will soon realize some real answers to what are very real problems."
Wouldn't people like Dennis Gallagher, Melinda Katz, Marge Markey, Serf Maltese, Joe Crowley, etc be the people to get to City Hall? Why weren't any of them at this meeting? That's what they get paid to do.
To the last Poster if you were present you would know that our elected officials had representatives present.
Sorry Bob nice try.
Were you too busy stealing money from the civic?
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