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Post by Admin on Sept 29, 2017 20:06:39 GMT -7
Paul Rantallo for North Glastonbury Director
 I am a retired building contractor and commercial construction supervisor. I have served 4 terms on the Glastonbury board and would like to serve again.
This term, I will volunteer community maintenance, such as cleaning ditches and culverts (using the backhoe); putting up road signs and posts; collecting bids for roadwork; and construction and building consultation. My hope and main concern are people's safety on the roads.
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zorro
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Post by zorro on Oct 1, 2017 21:04:18 GMT -7
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Post by Hawk-eyed on Oct 2, 2017 10:15:44 GMT -7
Mr. Ranttalo’s bio for his North Glastonbury candidacy is full of misinformation.
Here are the facts:
• His “community maintenance” offer is invalid. At the Sept. 9, 2017, GLA Board meeting, directors voted to approve the Road Committee’s Funding Request, which included the cleaning and repair of all culverts by an outside contractor. Mr. Ranttalo was in attendance and even cast his vote.
Why would his published bio contradict the approved board action?
• Culverts have not been maintained in twenty or more years. They are buried, clogged, damaged and unmarked. Collected water damages our fragile road foundation.
Why did Mr. Ranttalo neglect this massive and corrosive problem when he was co-chair of the Road Committee?
• After he single-handedly spent a sizable amount of landowner’s money without prior board authorization, he resigned as co-chair of the Road Committee months ago.
Wouldn’t a director who has “served four terms” know better than to violate established protocol?
• A number of active Road Committee members have already volunteered their time to locate, stake and map the culverts for all of Glastonbury. Work will soon commence.
Where was Mr. Ranttalo?
• The current Road Committee determined the need to implement and create an extensive roadside ditch network throughout the community. This is yet another ongoing step toward roadbed preservation.
Mr. Ranttalo attends no Road Committee meetings.
• The same September 9, 2017 GLA Board vote also covered the funding, and the installation of posts and road signs in all of Glastonbury. The Road Committee has already determined which specific signs are needed and the precise locations where they will be positioned.
Mr. Ranttalo’s offer is not necessary.
• He states that he will be “collecting bids for roadwork.”
Why would he unilaterally do that? Mr. Ranttalo flatly resigned from the Road Committee months ago.
We have seen the extraordinary progress the present Road Committee has made without Mr. Ranttalo.
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Post by bluebird on Oct 3, 2017 14:39:47 GMT -7
"Collecting bids bids for roadwork," he says in his bio.
For years, while occupying a seat on the GLA Board, Ranttalo reportedly got the inside scoop on prospective GLA jobs and what other bids were on the table. Then he would turn around, underbid all of his competitors, and he usually got the job, as we have heard through the grapevine.
This is an obvious conflict of interest. A sitting director should not be lining his own pockets at the expense of his constituents.
CAVEAT EMPTOR
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Post by No Spit sherlock on Oct 3, 2017 17:12:20 GMT -7
Paul, you need to face the fact that you really do not know what is going on by volunteering to do maintenance work which is already being done. Is this because you missed at least three months of GLA board and committee meetings this summer?
Paul, you need to tell voters that the Road Committee used to be the “good old boys” club when you and Ed Dobrowski were the Co-Chairs of it and that since you resigned from the road committee, there is a profound transformation in how this committee functions and is getting long-overdue work done.
You forgot to tell voters in your bio that you were the one who trespassed and damaged a GLA member’s property with your backhoe so that you could serve your personal agenda to help develop the site and build a greenhouse on the adjacent parcel for Keepers of the Flame. You forgot to tell voters that you and Charlotte Mizzi were censured by fellow board members for this trespass and for not giving your utmost loyalty to the protection of GLA property.
You forgot to tell voters that you were personally working for the owner of the upstream parcel when you tried to cajole the downstream owner into thinking she should allow GLA to dig a 3-foot ditch on her property for the benefit of the upslope parcel owner. You forgot to tell voters that you are now fast friends with the upslope parcel owner and that you voted to approve her garage application even though she was under a cease and order by the neighbor to resolve her water trespass problems first.
You forgot to tell voters that you have long used insider GLA information to get jobs for your personal gain.
In closing Paul, there is no room on the board for another two years of your self-serving conflicted dealings. Do us all a favor. Withdraw your bid for another board term. There is too much in your past that can lead to your undoing.
No-Spit Sherlock
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