can we PLEASE get off the rocky marciano tip?!...
my GAWD, is this really the laurel we will forever use to bolster brockton?
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" proceeds from the special plate would go to the Brockton Educational Foundation, a nonprofit group that has a fund to maintain the Rocky statue and Champions Park, officials said."
How long will it before there will be an audit without findings on this fund?
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oldskool wrote:
my GAWD, is this really the laurel we will forever use to bolster brockton?
Thank you! I never understood this.
And I assume that the plates will continue to sell, so how much money does a fence require?
I think that if you sign up for the plate you should never be allowed to criticize short funding of any agency in the City of Brockton. Statue? Not high up on the list of "things Brockton needs to invest in to make turn itself around"
You can't fix stupid.
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I live in Brockton now.
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He will be presenting the first $25,000. At Football game tonight. Work has already begun.
Way to give back to the community, Everetts. And no public money was used.
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The donation came in response to a notice former City Councilor Todd Petti, a member of the Rocky Marciano Statue Committee, placed in the Massachusetts Sons of Italy newsletter late last year seeking a “major sponsor” for the project in exchange for naming rights. That is when attorney Phillip Privitera, of Arlington, entered the ring, offering the $50,000 that was needed to complete the park.
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/20160223/donor-provides-funds-to-complete-brocktons-champions-park
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www.enterprisenews.com/news/20161010/lon...-begins-construction
"Local businessman Roy Andrade last week signed a written agreement to donate $50,000 total, $25,000 of his own money and $25,000 from fundraising. The $50,000 will go toward construction of a brick wall encircling the statue, plantings around the wall, an arch reading ‘Champion’s Park,’ and a brick walkway and patio with families’ or business’ names engraved on donated bricks. Before Andrade’s donation, the Brockton Educational Foundation sold about 50 of these bricks and raised more than $50,000, but were short of their goal. They were initially looking to raise $250,000 for the park and its upkeep, said Larry Siskind, a member of the original committee to bring the Marciano statue to Brockton. “We just weren’t getting enough people contributing to the brick-buying fundraiser,” Siskind said.
Struggling with this lack of donations, Mayor Bill Carpenter’s office switched directions last year and began working on an agreement with the local bricklayers’ union. The union agreed to build the brick wall and install the patio as volunteer labor, and contractor Ross Messina also signed on to work on the park at no cost to the city."
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