I got an email from a faithful reader today. It described an encounter with Don Coppedge this morning. This guy is about as unprofessional as you can get. Here is part of the email and a description of the encounter:
About ½ hour ago, I saw Don Coppedge, the Board Chair of the Housing Authority of Chester County. He said to me: ‘’Young Lady, You aren’t going to get anything more. What the garden has been offered is all that the garden will ever receive” He later went on as to how I was mentally ill and that no matter what anyone said or anyone did, there would be no budging from the current Pennrose plan.
Granted the law of averages is on your side when you question the sanity of a Phoenixvillian but should you really do it in front of the Acme? I believe that Coppedge is digging themselves deeper into the hole that they will have to eventually climb out of. This guy is a complete jackass and only getting worse in his old age. Perhaps the write in campaign against nepotism should gear up and everyone can let HUD, DCED and the County Commissioners know about what is going on at the Housing Authority.
UPDATE ------ I guess that the meeting with Krack and Wagner went pretty well for the HACC and Pennrose Properties because before May 20th, they were working with the church and now Don say they get what they get. Perhaps Mr. Wagner gave the green light for zoning change that they will eventually need. Start calling your Councilmen (except Speck, he doesn't care what you think and Wagner, because he already cut the deal).
Six months ago, the Phoenixville Borough Council passed a resolution to preserve the Community Garden as it exists today. Another part of that discussion that got full support of Council was that all meetings with the Borough included, were to be public with the exception of meetings that were about executive decisions that could be made by Borough staff. Enter the latest round of meetings. St. Johns was not invited and members of the Community Garden Board were not invited. There was no discussion as to the current plans for subsidized housing in the North Side and how the community garden fits in with that. Pennrose Properties, HACC, Jean Krack, and Henry Wagner discussed the plan and handed it to the Community Garden and said "take it or you are gone." The plan is the same as the plan rejected 6 months ago.
Why would the Borough staff and Council President work behind closed doors to work against a non profit community organization that Council voted unanimously in favor of? Isn't Mr. Wagner's wife a member of that church also? Didn't we have this same "back room dealing" situation last election when a Council President was up for reelection?
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