I want to thank the town employees who did such an excellent job to put the town back together after the wide spread damage from Tropical Storm Irene. To do so, I sent the following email today to the department heads of the Police Department, the Fire Department, and the DPW to personally thank each of their employees.
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9/20/2011 8:30AM
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Bob, Bill, and Ken,
Your departments have come in for lots of well deserved praise and appreciation for how you and your employees handled the town’s response to Hurricane Irene. Just as NSTAR has come in for some apparently well deserved frustration. Follow the link below to see some of both that came in to me today.
https://medfield02052.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/nstars-response-to-irene/
Please know that I was truly impressed by and thankful for the work that your employees did during Hurricane Irene – I did drive around on that Sunday afternoon and was impressed by all the activity I saw. As I said at the last Board of Selectmen meeting, what your employees did, to respond to the multitude of problems that were created and to do the tasks to get the town back to being operational, was a sterling example of government really working for its citizens in just the way that the citizens want it to. I think their efforts made all Medfield residents really happy to share our town’s government. At that last selectman meeting I actually questioned whether the town should consider asking you to do even more, where you did what you did so well and have the tools to do things that many homeowners just cannot. I proposed that perhaps the residents might want the DPW to pick up branches hauled to the curb up to a certain size. It was a thought I had after struggling to deal with my two downed trees, but recognizing that I managed only because I do have a chainsaw and a trailer. However, have no fear, as Mike, Ann, and Mark uniformly and roundly nixed my idea.
I look forward to learning how your proposed meetings with NSTAR will make the town’s experience with NSTAR better when we have the next storm.
Please share with your employees my sincere appreciation for their Herculean and effective work for the Town of Medfield in responding to the storm.
Best,
Pete
Osler L. Peterson, Attorney at Law
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