To the Editor:
While I do respect the potential Democratic Town Committee chairman shoe-in, Mr. Petruccelli, about his take on the Stratford High School project, I don’t pretend to know everything about the project personally. However, being on the Council and Building Needs Committee, going on my fifth year, I believe I have the experience about the project in question, while Mr. Petruccelli points out he is new to the process.
I never said BOE was having second thoughts about this project; I posed it as a question. Mr. Petruccelli seems to be the one not doing his due diligence, perhaps?
Even though there have been no public statements made by Mr. Petruccelli prior about Stratford High, his fast response to my letter was put out in an awful hurry.
Do I smell politics? I will continue to believe there is no apparent feasible space in the South End or near the existing school to build a new Stratford High School. It likely will be a waste of peoples’ time, when we all know the answer we were told three years ago — there was no ample land available to build a new school in the area.
If there is room to build the school at double or triple the cost, then I hope Mr. Petruccelli supports using eminent domain to take peoples’ houses? Stratford is over 90% developed. Does Mr. Petruccelli favor demolishing Shakespeare Theater to build the project, or building a school on contaminated land?
I would love to hear his take on the matter; since he seems to think due diligence was not done on my part. It appears to me that the hand-picked potential DTC chairman wants to make this school project political and carry water for the DTC’s vendetta against me. It seems he is willing to cast blame very easily.
I am ready, willing and able for the fight for my constituents. As I have fought my DTC foes in the past, and won, I will continue to fight for what is right!
Jason Santi
4th District Councilman
Town of Stratford