State Inspectional Services analysis complete, Board of Health budgets consolidated
Published on October 13th, 1999
STONEHAM, MA - After a month delay, the state has finished its inspection of Stoneham inspectional services.
Also, the Health Department is pulling itself together, the town is getting a new theater and maybe more parking...
oDerek Creaser from the State Building Department came in and took a look at the inspectors and inspections departments. He finished his investigation Friday.
State Building Inspector Tom Rodgers said the evaluation was standard and mandatory, a process to which all towns are eventually subject. But a request this summer from Town Administrator Jeff Nutting and Community Development Coordinator Steve Sadwick may have helped the state decide to look at Stoneham this year.
"I'm assuming we will have access to the report in two weeks," Sadwick said.
oAt the Oct. 5 selectmen's meeting Board of Health member Ben DiRusso asked Nutting to consolidate the budgets relating to the Health Department in one account.
Health Inspector Lou-Ann Clement is included in the inspectional services budget under the general heading of community development.
The two Board of Health nurses are included in human resources in the community services category.
The expense account for the board is in a specific Board of Health account, number 5-10 in the town ledger.
"Without a clear delineation of authority there are complications," DiRusso said.
He also said that for the sake of efficiency people in charge of directing and supervising departments should be able to see all the money coming in and out of their departments in single easily identifiable accounts.
Nutting agreed to go over the books and add the inspector and nurses into the 5-10 account.
"I'll take care of this," Nutting said at the Oct. 5 meeting.
"All accounts will be retroactively reallocated (into 5-10) from July 1 is my understanding," DiRusso said.
Nutting concurred.
oSymes Associates of Wakefield raised the roof of the Stoneham Theater Tuesday, Oct. 12.
No, the theater is not open yet, but that's the point. The roof was literally taken off by a giant crane so the rehabilitation of the classic building can continue.
Al Symes has said he plans to return the theater to its past glory days as a local movie house.
The southeast corner of the roof appeared to cave in last week, but this was all part of the roof removal process, according to Landers Symes.
"We have workers disattaching sections from the frame so the crane will be able to get in there and lift off the roof," Symes said.
However, a Furniture World employee said a Symes worker told him that they had an uncontrolled collapse (of part of the roof) last week.
"He told us to watch out while we were back in the lot making a delivery," the Furniture World employee said.
According to all sources, no one was hurt.
oRecently a 50 foot by 300 foot portion of land off Pleasant Street along the railroad right-of-way near Gould Street was paved.
Controversy arose as to whether this land, dedicated as open space land by the town and state, could be altered without going to Town Meeting and state legislators for approval.
At the Oct. 5 selectmen's meeting Nutting said he had the authority to approve the paving. He gave Joe Cunningham the OK to pave the area with the understanding that the land would eventually be used as parking for the Tri-Community Bike Path.
Bike Path Director Cameron Bain questioned the legality of the decision, but selectmen agreed no harm had been done.
The area had been dirt and rock, and Selectman Cosmo Ciccarello said paving it was an improvement, and if necessary, the pavement could be removed.
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