Morrisville council seat up for grabs; three residents interested
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 4:13 pm
His time as a Morrisville councilman is coming to an end for Dave Rivella. And someone needs to replace him.Three residents have thrown their names into the ring: Ted Parker, Bryan Tomasulo and Kevin Larison.Rivella said he expects to stay on the council until he's sworn in as mayor in early January. His replacement for the fourth ward council seat will be appointed by the council sometime in January, he said, adding that he had two more years in his council term.
Parker, a school board member, submitted his letter of interest in early November. Tomasulo and Larison submitted their letters mid-November.
“I believe I can be a voice of reason. I don't like the infighting I have seen from the council in the past few years; this needs to stop,” Parker said. “I believe my years on the school board have taught me how to work well with others whose views maybe very different from yours, and the school board has made great progress moving forward. The council needs to work together so it can focus on progress. I believe with my experience I can help with that.”
Parker said his top priorities as a councilman would be economic redevelopment and public safety, as well as making an effort to uniting the divided council.
Tomasulo, who has been a borough resident for 11 years, said he is also concerned about safety in the borough.
“Like many residents, I share in the concerns of what is transpiring in our borough on a daily basis. The accelerating crime rate, coupled with difficulty of attracting and retaining respectable businesses, makes Morrisville a very difficult sell for the young family trying to start out on their own and also in retaining the wonderful families that came to Morrisville in hopes of raising their families here,” Tomasulo wrote in his letter of interest for the seat.
Tomasulo said his 12 years of working on Wall Street can help him attract businesses to the borough. He also said he has an “attitude of fairness and willingness to work” with other council members.
“My only hope is (that) whoever is awarded this seat occupies it with true intent of respecting its authority and wanting to dutifully represent the fourth ward and its residents,” he said.
Larison has the same safety concerns as Parker and Tomasulo.
“It’s ridiculous that we haven’t had a (police) chief in almost a year,” he said Wednesday afternoon.
The Morrisville Police Department has been running with an officer in charge since Jan. 1. In July, the council hired a consulting firm to help with the hiring of a police chief.
In the 25 years he’s been a borough resident, Larison said public safety and political disagreements “are probably the worst" they have been and "that’s reason enough to go for council.”
His top goal as a councilman would be to “have more cops on duty,” he said.
36 comments:
“It’s ridiculous that we haven’t had a (police) chief in almost a year,”
When I read this I thought it was odd to say this considering borough council appoints the open position.
I wish the very best of luck to anyone who gets appointed. You are going to need it with the handful of loud residents who will be sure to publicly ridicule you on a daily basis if you aren't one of their friends.
Amen to that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEV1d7RPvg
It's ridiculous that many of the chief complainers didn't see fit to get involved for the last 5, 10, 50 years.
It's ridiculous that many of the chief complainers didn't see fit to get involved until this past August.
to: anonymous said... it's ridiculous: So, what you insinuate is there's nothing to complain about? You either have an agenda of your own (sitting quite comfortably in it, might I add) or you are in denial...are you saying the condition of our town is the direct result of 50 years ago? I need more detail, I'm about detail.... Would you care to explain? If you do not respond, that's perfectly fine....because the town is coming together and they are going to establish a community that will rise above the norm. Seriously!
Well all righty then!
Who doesn't have a buddy in the Police dept?....Come on, go ahead, hug a cop today!!
"are you saying the condition of our town is the direct result of 50 years ago?"
What are you talking about? are you saying? 50 years ago?
Just pull that out of the air?
For the benefit of folks are new to the world of Morrisville School Board and Morrisville Borough government, these two entities have really come along way. It wasn't that long ago that there was another school board majority and another borough council majority, both of which for years worked for their own benefit and not ours. The result is many messes having to be cleaned up by both the current school board and the current borough council.
Don't like the state of the
Morrisville School District or the borough? It's easier and more popular to blame the current council & board who are trying to clean up what's been left by the older majorities than to look into the history of what's being talked about. But I'm not about to give a history lesson to people who should already know this stuff.
Here's an idea, work together instead of finger pointing at convenient targets. Don't just talk about it, do it! At the end of the day, the average person in Morrisville doesn't have enough information to make an informed opinion about anything regarding how the school district and borough are run, so stop blaming everyone, figure that a good portion of what you hear is second hand information (therefore not credible) and stop being separatists.
"because the town is coming together and they are going to establish a community"
Not to sound like the post above but.......
because this town is coming together? I've been here a long time and I have no idea what this means. Because there is a group of people who are pretty bold in their speaking, does not mean that this town wasn't worked together prior to the forming of this group. I have been pretty active in Morrisville and have often thought how nice it is that we all come together throughout the years for different reasons. If anything it is my opinion that the new voices in Morrisville have actually formed a divide within our little community that was not there previously.
Some people tend to babble on and on in ways you can't even make heads or tails of, let alone get something actionable out of it.
These same people like to re-write history to make it seem like they were on the side of the angels all along, when in fact they were not.
If these few angry people had been paying attention, they would know that the new majorities on council and school board have been brought in because people who were paying attention several years ago voted the old out.
These new people should understand that the voters are trying to get rid of the ineffective and vote in productive officials. It has taken several voting cycles, and hopefully, we are almost there.
These new voices should be applauding and anxious to work WITH the newly formed council and school board.
They haven't been here for several years - that's the problem, these new people think they need to swoop in and save people that have lived here for generations. They got a big head, but there are 9,000 people in this town and only about 15 post in those groups regularly.
And there you have it...again. If you can't trace your lineage in the ville back several generations, you don't have the right to speak up or get involved. Because things around here just keep getting better since the 1950s..right?
Don't agree with that or think that's the point. Point is a lot of the garbage happening is the direct result of people who claim to be angels and victims on the RTK fb page who aided, abetted, ran with, tolerated, condoned, voted for it. Keep eyes wide open and don't get sucked in by the superficial charm if you can call it that.
I am seeing personal attacks and allegations of embezzlement and mobsterism on RTK page, among other things. Is it OK if there's names associated with it??? Don't see condemnation. Sort of skipping over, treating it like overheated jokes? Awkward and uncomfortable but you don't want to antagonize them, and subject yourself to their abuse, or of the people who like them, huh? Hmmmm. Good point. Lightbulb moment?
I don't do FB, so I don't see these pages. Just another outlet for the same old crap that keeps going around these parts.
and you can disagree with the post above, but I've seen it happen time and time again. Anyone new to town who gets involved in things gets hammered by the old timers on both sides of any issue.
Then these self-same old timers complain about the degradation of the town?
I haven't taken the word "new" when used here to mean people who are new the community. I have taken it as in people who have been here but have not been willing to pay attention and now mysteriously have all the answers.
Yes that is how I took it.
RTK posts of some (not all, some) have sunk lower than anything on this blog.
How do you interpret "these new people think they need to swoop in and save people that have lived here for generations." to mean anything other than old-timers against the new citizens?
I also never thought anything on this blog was so low either. It may get a bit personal against some people, but it always seems to me that those singled out deserve it. They are public figures who demonstrate reprehensible behavior with no concern for the good of the town and its citizenry.
I see what you mean, however I didn't write it so I can't say what the author meant, maybe they can come back and responds....
I apologize - I didn't meant the tone of my post to make it sound like I wanted it to be "newer" members if the community versus "older" members.
I only meant people on the FB pages that all of a sudden think they know the history of the people that used to run the school board and council.
There were so many negative things that happened, starting I think about 30 years ago, that newer people to Morrisville can't know about...
I am in no way condemning new people to our town - we need them and we should all welcome them and be proud to have attracted them. But for some to turn around after being here a few years and say "You idiots don't know what you're doing, how could you let it get this bad?!" without bringing new ideas to the table can't be seen by people that have lived her a long time as anything but a punch in the face.
There are people involved and we do try to plan things for the town - we've been here, trying to bring the town together. NOT tear it apart.
That's what we all want - we have to find more ways to bring us all together. Hopefully a lot will come out tomorrow for the parade...
To the poster above - right on!
Copy and paste one example.
There is no place for personal attacks when attempting to have a constructive discussion about an issue.
Jason Krier's embezzlement remark and Edward Welch Jr's mobsters remark duly noted. You can delete them but the memory remains.
If you don't call out bullies, liars and cheats, they keep on doing it. So, I have to disagree with you on that. I know it sounds nice and right, but it doesn't cut it in the real world.
Who are you disagreeing with? I personally have no problem calling out people with facts. What I have a problem with is casually tossing around allegations of criminality without any evidence other than hunches and intense dislike of particular individuals.
Calling people out with facts is a great idea, except it rings hallow when done anonymously.
As I am here :)
It still rings though!
It's my opinion that when you are dealing with liars, calling them out with facts means nothing. It just gives them more information to manipulate and twist into some new rant. To someone who is a liar, honesty is seen as a weakness. Honest people really don't stand a chance against those who live their lives with dishonesty because they know honest people are going to be honest and they will use it against them as often as possible.
The first person who comes to mind is an ex-school board member. Lying came so naturally to her. Still does. It would have been nice to think her "friends" and running mates were appalled by it. I never got the sense they were, though.]
I think the fake tanning may have caused some cognitive issues there.
I think it's more than skin deep. It goes all the way through.
They say beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone.
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