Don’t let the door hit you, City Manager
Per Friday’s Concord Monitor, the City of Concord has bestowed the Citizen of the Year award upon City Manager Tom Aspell. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes. Are you kidding me???
Shall we review this City Manager’s “accomplishments”? Under Tom Aspell’s guidance, the City of Concord has been spending like a drunken sailor, while long-term homeowners can’t hardly afford their inflated tax bills (most doubling, some almost tripling).
The projected costs for the new Rundlett Middle School ($155 million/$230-$285 million financed) and Police Station ($48.6 million) projects are both off the charts. Let’s not forget the $10 million ask for a new Clubhouse at the Beaver Meadow Municipal Golf Course, which saw a SRO crowd spill out into the stairwell at that City Council Meeting — resulting in no significant measure of relief — requiring the good citizens of Concord to kick and gouge to pare it down to a still over-the-top $7.5 million. What an embarrassment!
Affordable housing? Forget it. Not in this town. And what about the mushrooming homeless problem?
Giving Tom Aspell a Citizen of the Year award is akin to giving Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for all the killing off the coast of Venezuela, and for his Iran “excursion” — now at six months and counting.
Hey, at least there is light at the end of this dark tunnel. Once Tom exhausts all his accrued free time, Concord is rid of him. And don’t let the door hit you in your Aspell on the way out, Tom.