Ethics

The Town Council has decided that all residents will soon have their energy supplier switched from Rhode Island Energy to the so-called "Good Energy" company. Meanwhile the town itself will continue to be a client of Rhode Island Energy, and the same goes for the school department. What gives?

Community Electricity OPT OUT:

https://www.northkingstownri.gov/1042/Community-Electricity-Aggregation-Plan

People are unbelievable.

Worried about whether an old sign was placed that said democrat when the candidate switched parties. Something I will be doing after this election.

I will be an independent after 36 years of being a registered democrat. I will no longer be part of this party because of the north Kingstown democratic town committee.

I can not believe that the Our Town page allowed this.

Seriously are signs what they are worried about, whether it says democrat or independent???? Ask why they left the Democratic Party… I’m happy to tell you why.

Worry about the Progressive Democratic Town Committee not supporting James Sheehan, a retired RI senator for school committee.

Worry about Jennifer Lima running and forcing her agenda

Worry about the unsupported school administration that is over run by Lima and Earle.

Worry about the water in our town.

Worry about the solar farm.

Really, this is your gripe.?

To everyone else…

Know who you are voting and why.

Political party aside.

-Jennifer Price Hoskins (See full letter on School Committee page)

Quoting TC member Kim Page from the building subcommitee meeting of 4/1/24 - “if you do that voters, I’m sorry, voters are not that smart and won’t be able to figure that out.” Always negative comments about “voters” from both the TC and SC members. Their plans are clear as mud, but yes, blame everyone else. Do you hear yourselves?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZzhEDlU9Q&list=PLsgTZnh-8Bx8o9HCPGHxf825Ngp9Vuhx0&index=1&pp=iAQB

Feel free to listen for yourself. It’s at the very end of the meeting , approx, 1:00 mark.

They’re about to come back to residents with 5 options and will need to vote on this within 7 days.

Think we’ll get truth and transparency this time?!

And:

Letter: Mancini takes credit that he doesn’t deserve

Sep 22, 2022

NK Town Council President Greg Mancini likes to tout all the accomplishments under his time on the town council. Perhaps the long laundry list he presents is meant to distract the voters from the truth as opposed to the spin Democrats like to use. For example, he cites how he “Attained an AA+ Bond Rating for the town during my tenure.” The truth is the town’s bond rating was AA+ before Mr. Mancini’s tenure as evidenced by the same rating given to the town in 2014 and 2015 during bond issues. So Mr. Mancini wants credit for work done before his time. Similarly, he wants credit for the new athletic field at NKHS, even though the planning, financing, and approvals were done before he started on the council. All he did was show up to the ribbon cutting. He wants credit for “four years” of balanced budgets with surpluses when by law all towns in RI have to have balanced budgets and the town ran surpluses in the years prior as well.

Even more egregious though is his claim about reducing tax rates - “Residential tax rate went from $18.06 in 2018 to $14.06 in 2022.” So here’s a simple question for NK voters — have your property taxes gone *down* by the 22% he cites? The answer is clearly and resoundingly “NO” — most homeowners have seen their property taxes increase despite the attempt to distract residents by touting a “homestead” exemption. But what has gone down? Something Mr. Mancini leaves off his list — average income of town households. According to the debt book posted on NK’s own town site, median family income in town has “weakened” since he took over as TC president in 2018. Taxes up and

income down is the real story. What’s also down is the town’s trust and

confidence in the school system under progressive democrat control.

Mr. Mancini touts commissioning a separate investigation, yet the

council has not held a single joint meeting with the school to do

anything with the findings. More show over substance. Mr. Mancini

makes the claim “and lastly, just as I have done in my first four years, I

will always vote in the best interests of NK.” However, the recent

decision — and given Mr. Mancini makes the decisions since the other

two democrat councilors vote in lock step with Mr. Mancini’s wishes on

every issue — to appoint an outsider to fill the school committee

vacancy demonstrated the opposite.

Mancini put party and his own interest over students by appointing a

fellow progressive democrat whose only experience as a city councilor

in another state was characterized by the Democratic Mayor of that

city as “disappointing” and part of a ‘racist” and “sexist” effort

against her.

Our residents and student deserve better.

Jacqueline Alger

North Kingstown

Is this Mancini taking credit for voting to approve renovations to the Town Hall? The same renovations that were already approved by the previous Town Council?

Link to article:

https://www.independentri.com/opinion/article_f35f41d0-3f76-11ed-87d6-a73f1be69324.html?fbclid=IwAR2Wf8v3EIH_QL5H0Rkcjmu0-JB49otSOgrfZ8w648IFHltgOpLKIWMi-Lc

Richard Welch:

The Dems are taking credit for the renovation of the town hall which the voters approved and the town council approved long before this town council was sworn in.

Link to minutes: coming

The real question is WHAT did the taxpayers get? Did all town offices move back? No, so are we still paying for 2 town halls (is there a plan to wean off 120 Fairway) and a separate SC admin office? So we spent $5M to make glorified meeting spaces? For $5M we should have building that also created efficiencies but this was all about (1) construction jobs and (2) keeping 80 Boston Neck a Wickford historical building

Mary Brimer's reasons for voting against:

"The proper permitting had not been completed before the vote was taken; rushed by Mancini. The PAP hadn’t been filed and planning had not completed a final review and made a recommendation to the council before the vote. Beside this is an egregious amount of public money to spend at over $700 a square foot at 7 feet above sea level. It would seem to me that Mancini wanted this project to go to DBVW architects and Tower Construction. Follow the money.

I was never comfortable with the project. That said, it was the will of the voters, not once but twice, to renovate the building at taxpayer expense. It could have been done differently.

I voted no because there were too many things that left me uncomfortable, including the price and the threat to the Veterans Park; to be taken by eminent domain and made into a parking lot. There is a memorial tree planted 49 years ago in the park, the family members are still alive and living in town.

Additionally, that project is in one of the most threatened floodplains in all of Rhode Island at 7 feet above sea level, not to mention somebody else's agenda-Mancini. I even met with two professors at the URI campus who thought that this project was not in the public best interest.

Had all of the planning approvals been done I would’ve been left with no choice but to support it. But since this was being rushed and I couldn’t justify it, I didn’t vote for it. The rules are the rules for a reason and when all the boxes are checked then you vote to support it. The fact that Greg was cutting corners afforded me the comfort of voting against it."

(It should all be in the minutes, which are not public.)

It is.

https://www.independentri.com/news/article_af638544-13fa-11eb-80c0-f7c3d87e0d07.html

Link to the whole convo:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/950052598375630/permalink/3421145444599654/

They were caught, and caught lying, and made to become a PAC, and there's Mancini's name, right on it, in case you missed it. It's probably just a coincidence.