RESIDENT COMPLAINT 30 Dearborn Street
Salem, MA 01970-2450
May 4, 2000
Re: Fountain Alterations
East India Square
Stanley J. Usovicz, Jr., Mayor, City of Salem
City Hall
93 Washington Street
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Patrick H. Reffett, Executive Director
Salem Redevelopment Authority
One Salem Green, 2nd Floor
Salem, Mass. 01970
Dear Mayor Usovicz:
Dear Mr. Reffett:
Please accept this letter as a formal complaint regarding the alterations recently made to the
fountain at East India Square. Any alterations proposed for the fountain should have been
presented to the SRA and the SRA Design Review Board for review and approval and were not.
I am requesting that the regulations regarding review and approval of work in the SRA area be
enforced, and that the recent fountain alterations be immediately submitted to the SRA and the
DRB for whatever action they deem appropriate.
Secondly, Mayor Usovicz, I feel the inexcusable arrogance displayed by Public Services Director
Stanley Bornstein in altering the fountain (a work of public art)without following review
procedures, in dealing with the public (Mr. Bornstein sarcastically intimated to me that he had
never heard of the SRA or the DRB), and in stating that whatever he did had the full support and
approval of you, Mayor Usovicz, is a serious concern that you should address. I assume that you
do not want your administration to become known for its arrogance.
Thank you both for your attention to these matters.
Staleyeermel
cc: Stanley Bornstein,
Public Services Director
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