Public hubris

Our First Selectman has chastised the Public Housing Authority for keeping residents in the dark concerning its plans to add new housing units in town. The full article is linked above but I think this quote, as lifted from Greenwich Time, sums up the attitude the head of the housing Authority holds towards lowly citizens and neighbors:

Jonathan DuBois, the Housing Authority's chairman, said the agency had wrongly been under the impression that it was responsible for developing such plans, and that elected politicians were in charge of coordinating the public vetting of them.

We worked with the town agencies for more than a year before the development plan was announced to the public. When it was announced to the public, I expected that the process of public disclosure and explanation would be directed by the Board of Selectmen and the first selectman, who would tell us what meetings to have. That was a mistake," DuBois said.

I'm really not interested in Selectman Tesei's interpretation of what the Housing Authority's up to and apparently neither is he. His demand that they speak, openly and publicly, is a good move. Should be fun to see the fireworks at the first public hearing, a show that, I suspect, the Authority was hoping to avoid.