Opponents to Avon eminent domain plan mobilize
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AVON - An army of volunteers throughout the city on Friday afternoon, planting signs with the words, that the care of public schools, but it can not tolerate steal to build the country. A group called Citizens for Avon wants to change that the local back-to-school board of his plans to take Mary Jane Wolfe’s 25-acre property on Center Road. But members of the board of Avon School say that the country is the best place to build a new Junior High School, and they are with the courts to force them to sell Wolfe. Tim Bresnahan, spokesman for Citizens for Change, has helped about 50 people, the 150 characters in the shipyards Friday. Donations have been pouring in a Fifth Third during the past few weeks in the group to help the fight, he said. Donations were not as a whole, but they are in addition to $ 1000, and was sent by e-mail to the organization of the mailbox. Sean Flaherty was one of the volunteers to help distribute signs that read, “Progress Yes, Eminent Domain No!” “My fear is that the school is trying to drag on board, here’s a quick and pushed by this agreement, without emotion,” he said. “Well, they are not to escape. We give them a fight. ” Bresnahan and businesses online for a petition on Thursday, angry residents to sign. By late Friday, 26 people had found their names on the document on www.avoncitizensforchange.com. Eventually, the petition is on paper in circulation, to allow people who do not have access to the Internet may also, he said. Legally, the petition could not compel the school board. But their hopes, thermostats are still predominates. “Enough singing to the man, it was time can they set their hands,” said Bresnahan. “So, we can show the direction, as they have much of the opposition. This card is lost face in the eyes of the public, but they are always bent to do. ” In the petition, in which citizens for the change of opinion, there are also other points of the Board of Education may be a new school, and he asked the board to put an end to vote at 3-2, for the domain eminently Wolfe Property. School Board President Dale Smitek said Friday that neither signs of the petition are probably still modify the heads of officials. He spoke Wolfe’s Land is the best place for the construction of the new High junior, and that the 25 hectares - about “We are not in the construction of a school for 800 pupils.” We must continue in the future than this, “said Smitek. While the housing market has become ill, he said Avon is located on the edge of a huge real estate boom in the next ten years, flooding the area with new students, and there is not enough space present in schools to use them. Smitek also said he does not expect that the boards of directors-to-Talk via Wolfe’s Land resume at any time soon, especially if the case goes before a judge. Bresnahan said his group, it includes the petition signed, and should not make a difference, but he still wants on the display table showing how many people are they opposed - and how to remember that the issue of choice. |