A great big thank you to the utility workers for all their hard work and for so many hours of it. Sadly, I found our city didn't act appropriately in getting the Police Dept. to handle traffic at many busy intersections. People drove thru them like THEY had the right of way when they should have stopped as if there was a stop sign.

Yes thanks to all the workers from other states and towns that are working many days and hours to restore power ,water, cable and cutting trees down and removing them off streets.and gas and police and firemen . to all in CT.thanks again..

Yes, great job but where is the help for individual citizens. Even though we pay real estate and personal property taxes the City of Meriden offers no help in discarding limbs/brush from downed trees in our yards. Taxpayers have no services when needed. Obviously our tax dollars are not used for yearly maintenance on things like roads, keeping storm drains clear (lazy citizens won't even do this). We have no large item pickup; not even a designated month for large item pickup like so many other Cities and Towns offer, for free!

Please publish a full accounting in accord wiht the Freedom of INformation Act as to exactly where our money is going. Pockets of elected officials or venders? All to the schools so vain parents can proclaim their children go to such such school, much better and high tech? Pahlease I would love to know

The City will be scheduling debris pickup as soon as the weather allows. The annual budget for road maintenance, repaving and reconstruction is approximately $1 million per year, not counting special projects that are funded by the federal or state government and not counting approximately $750,000 for sidewalk and curb work. Free bulky waste days are scheduled twice per year. The City budget is available on the City website, showing all general fund revenues, including local taxes, and expenditures. www.cityofmeriden.org

Ahhhh but do they offer the availability of invoices showing what costs were incurred for each and every part needed, say, with the newest upgrading to the water department issue that caused yet another hike in our rates? I'd be interested in proof that the upgrade done was indeed necessary and was not caused by the lack of maintenance due to lack of funds for other services the Citizens of Meriden have no direct benefit.

I can not believe in order to add additional life to the roadways by applying crack filler on a yearly basis would result in approx 1 mil a year. Can save money on mainentance by not sending out the slow paced standing around workers. How many workers need to stand around doing nothing until its their turn to provide their expertise in any given repair. They can be out cleaning storm drains instead of waiting around till its time for their part of any project. Paid to stand idle doing isn't very good as far as management of funds

You are welcome to come to city hall anytime to look at any documents you want. $1 milliion is not spent just on crack sealing, it covers repaving, reconstruction and materials for pot hole filling. The crack sealing, repaving and reconstruction projects are awarded by public bid to private contractors. If you are seeing people standing around on road construction projects, they work for the private contractors.

Im curious as to why this post gets to stay up when its not a "problem that can be easily resolved". The MAC post and the police scanner post were definitely problems and popular ones at that. However, they get removed.

Inconvinient posts quickly dissappear from this site. If its easier to delete than come up with a solution, thats what will happen.

Mark, you're pretty much a bully placing the same post on other posts that differ with your opinion. I was the initial poster of this issue. I totally knew thanks had to be given for all the help in restoring power. I am happy to have been allowed this forum to show praise instead of negativity. I'll be closing this issue as soon as I get that email reminder. Life is not all about negativity

If you really want to get invovled, research what it takes to do a petition, in writing, report your concerns to other governing officials, outside of Meriden. Continual posting on non official forums does not solve issues of great concern.

Remember, this forum to report issues is on a newspapers website. It simply serves as a way to come up with other news articles they can investigate, in other words, we're giving them tips so they can investigated, report, and take the credit.

Thanks has been given, posted for all to see and comment; and I want to avoid those persons who are posting

Thanks has been posted, enough time for others to give praise has passed, and do not want a positive post be subject to negativity due to the persons going post to post stating

Just want the webmaster of this site to know that I am unable to close this issue using the ""change status" close" option. I am the original person who posted.

Thanks has been posted, enough time has passed for others to post replies praising those invovled in gteting out utilities back but now that someone is going post to post stating "this issue remains active but ......" one other specific post has been removed.......I want to protect the integrity of my positive original post

The administrator can now close this issue since I am unable to due to techical issues.

I dont feel this needs to be taken down. I just dont think other issues should have been taken down. I think the cleanup was exceptional as well. Very nice topic

Sad when one individual poster would go post to post whining about what issues remain and what do not.

That individual make this positive post into something ugly posting a negative post. For that reason, I closed this post; however, how is it that we can still type replies....