lincoln taxpayers association

Following are some of the highlights of the LTA meetings held in the past

The June 20 meeting was an invigorating, passionate discussion of the impact of building a new court house complex in Lincoln, in a highly dense residential area surrounded by schools, with only access via a two lane road.

The LTA was proud to have Town Administrator Joseph Almond, Councilman Keith Macksoud and Councilman John Flynn in the audience. Their participation in the sometimes heated discussion was extremely helpful by keeping us informed of the latest developments as well as the background leading up to this decision. We also welcomed former Town Council presidents Dean Lees and Dennis Auclair and former State Rep John Barr to the meeting and heard from them as well.

Town Administrator Joe Almond addresses the crowd June 20, 2007

with President Ron Stewart moderating.

It is clear no one in the audience was in favor of the location for this courthouse and several proposals were suggested for possible action.

Former LTA Pres. Ed O'Neill suggested enlisting the assistance of the hundreds of parents of the children at the nearby middle school and the adjacent high school, along with the students attending CCRI and staging a mass march down Old Louisquissett Pike to protest the court from being built at that location.

Much more to come on this subject...stay tuned!

The LTA is proud to have presented Arlene Violet February 26 as our guest speaker, a prominent and well known and respected Rhode Islander who

shared her thoughts on the unique situation we face in Lincoln.

This proved to be our most interesting and controversial meeting yet!

Arlene Violet addresses the members February 26, 2007

Opening by saying "There is no doubt in my mind that in the next two years, Lincoln will have a 24 hour full scale casino operating at Lincoln Park unless the people in this organization don't do something to stop it.", she set the tone for a lively and exciting meeting about the future of Lincoln.

Using a wonderful analogy to describe the small infractions taken by Lincoln Park against our quality of life as "like getting stoned to death with marshmallows", Arlene made her position clear that the town would soon be home to a mega casino if we don't get involved to stop it.

She advocated for the following:

legislation in the General Assembly that would prohibit any expansion without the community voting for approval
citizens groups must link up with other groups
the host community should have a say in their future
Senator Montalbano has to be accountable for the expansion and negative effect on Lincoln

John Cullen, Harry Staley and Arlene Violet discuss the expansion of Lincoln Park hours.

In addition, she challenged the hypocritical argument that passage of the Narragansett Indian casino would have hurt other business such as PPAC, when Lincoln Park has already opened 18 restaurants at the expense of surrounding businesses.

Members who directed questions to Ms. Violet were Dean Lees, John Cullen, Ralph Barlow, John Scanlon, Harry Staley, Anthony Baglini, Ron Stewart, Jim Goldman and others.

We wish to thank the many new members who joined at this meeting!

Our October 23rd meeting at the Asia Grill was extremely well received by the members, as they looked forward to hearing from the individual candidates for local office.

Ten candidates were present and available to answer questions from the members and otherwise engage in conversation with some of the most motivated and concerned citizens of Lincoln...the LTA membership!

Providence Journal Editor, Edward Achorn provided an inspiring speech to the members last year concerning the rights of citizens to form groups and work for positive changes in their government.

Ed Achorn at last years meeting June 8, 2006

An overflow crowd at the January 19 meeting, as the people listen to

Fire Chief Frank Sylvester discuss ways to save money in the Fire Dept.,

as well as the lack of enough rescue units for the Limerock area.

Fire Chief Frank Sylvester and Ed O'Neill at the Jan 19, 2006 meeting

The Chief thanked Ed O'Neill for the invitation, and remarked it was

the first time he had the opportunity to speak to members of all 6 fire districts

in the same room.

Some very informative dialog was generated and everyone

came away with a better understanding of the issues facing fire safety

in the Town of Lincoln.

Meetings are open to members and prospective members only...please identify yourself as a member or as a guest.

Guest attendants are permitted one meeting only.

Note: please contact us at info@lincolntaxpayers.org to give us your input both from the results and format of our meetings and what you'd like to see discussed.

The members have brought up many issues of concern at our meetings, including the

administration continuing to allow building on wetlands, ever increasing expansion of Lincoln Park, school budget that goes disproportionately to the teachers

instead of the schools, not enough police officers on staff, not enough fire and rescue trucks, development of Camp Meehan and many more issues.

It's abundantly clear the taxpayers of Lincoln are

eager to support a vehicle such as the LTA to allow them to challenge

the administration to keep Lincoln a town we can all be proud of!

We wish to thank all the new members who joined recently and hope to

provide you with a value of information and participation for your efforts.

IMPORTANT! If you wish to join, please see our

signup page on this web site. (click here)