To the Editor,
“Sensible Wilton’s” press release regarding its suit against our town — that was issued in time to be quoted in GMW.com‘s June 2 issue, the day after the suit was filed — states in part, “As we have consistently stated throughout this debate, Sensible Wilton believes that immediate repairs should be made to various components of the MD school building, including the roof, HVAC, and electrical systems, and Sensible Wilton agrees that sprinklers and fire alarm systems need to be installed as well. It is likely that mold and asbestos remediation will be needed too. Claims that Sensible Wilton ‘just wants to fix the roof and HVAC’ are completely untrue.”
The quotation in the last sentence of this press release segment above is a paraphrase of a sentence in my column in the Wilton Bulletin that appeared on May 28, right before the suit was filed and this press release issued. My full sentence in that column reads as follows: “Take a look at ‘Sensible’s’ inchoate ‘specific’ proposals to cut costs: do just the roof and HVAC.”
That statement was taken from “Sensible’s” President Alex Ruskewich‘s letter to the editor in the Wilton Bulletin‘s January 15, 2015 issue which states in pertinent part, “improvements are needed at Miller-Driscoll but should be concentrated on items that are needed now for student health/safety: roof and HVAC.”
How soon “Sensible” forgets what it has previously asserted. In fact, its latest “to-do” list for Miller-Driscoll, to judge from its press release, is incrementally growing ever closer to the scope of the rebuilding project as approved by our voters!
It is also interesting to see how “Sensible’s” press release completely ignores — without even including a reference to it — the 30-page Milone & MacBroom report on enrollment projections that shows as the best estimate a decline of only 7 percent over the next eight years (as far as one can reasonably project) when this rebuild is designed to last for another 50 years. Ah, forgetfulness again….
Steve Hudspeth