To the Editor,
Cranston taxpayers are generous people. For almost a decade, we have been subsidizing the training of federal, state, city, and private organizations.
Director Anthony …
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To the Editor,
Cranston taxpayers are generous people. For almost a decade, we have been subsidizing the training of federal, state, city, and private organizations.
Director Anthony Moretti reported at the September 23, 2024, City Council meeting that the City of Cranston collected a mere $37,000 in rental income from leasing the Cranston Police gun range between October 2020 and December 2023.
During these thirty-eight months, the following agencies came to Cranston to train, as reported in the CPD Year-End Reports:
On average, the City of Cranston collected just $1541 per year, per agency.
It gets more interesting when you review the three years between 2016 and 2018. Eleven more federal, state, city, and private organizations came to Cranston for arms training.
There is no readily available data on the rental income generated during this period, nor for the year 2019.
Why has the Cranston taxpayer so generously supported the arms trainings of these organizations? Who is benefiting?
Residents of Meshanticut, who suffer under the daily barrage of war-like gunfire, have been repeatedly told by Mayor Hopkins that “there’s no money to move or enclose the range.”
I propose to the flummoxed Mayor, Director, and City Council members the obvious solution: raise the rent.
Martha DiMeo, of Cranston
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