Board of Selectmen

Selectmen OK Contract To Replace ‘Mafia Wall’ at the Dump [VIDEO]

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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved an approximately $27,000 contract to replace what the town’s highest elected official called a “mafia wall” at the dump. The concrete block retaining wall at the Transfer Station for the construction debris and brush area was installed in 1998 when the landfill there was capped, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “It’s gone through a couple of repairs, and the existing blocks are starting to degrade and it’s in need of removal and replacement,” he told members of the Board of Selectmen at their regular meeting. This exchange followed:

First Selectman Kevin Moynihan: What do they call these blocks, Tiger? Mann: They call them ‘mafia blocks.’

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‘The Building Is Going To Come Down’: First Selectman Vows To Demolish ‘Mead Park Brick Barn,’ Withholds Details on How

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Without specifying just how it would happen, New Canaan’s highest elected official said Thursday that the century-old brick structure at the northern edge of Mead Park—a former fuel depot that historic preservationists want to save while others want to raze—will be demolished. Referring vaguely to “a process” regarding what preservationists call the “Mead Park Brick Barn,” First Selectman Kevin Moynihan said during a press briefing in his office at Town Hall that “it’s going to play out and then the building is going to come down.”

The most recent town body to weigh in on the future of what has also been called the “Richmond Hill Garage,” the Planning & Zoning Commission, voted unanimously at its Oct. 30 meeting to “abandon” the building—checking off a box required by state law in cases where a municipality divests itself of real property. Yet P&Z’s vote appears to have no bearing on a separate decision that falls to the Board of Selectmen—namely, to approve the contracts for a company to physically knock the building down and cart away its remains. The selectmen during their Oct.