Mayor Thomas M. Menino said Tuesday that he hopes to leave the Parkman House this weekend and move back to his home in Hyde Park for the first time in five months.
Menino has lived in the city-owned mansion on Beacon Street since Christmas, when he left the hospital after an eight-week stay for a variety of ailments. Since his illness, Menino has had difficulty with stairs, while the Parkman House has an elevator.
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Mayor Menino, good luck with your transition back to your home. Thanks for all of your work since Christmas, on the community events, the serious storms and just keeping the city running. I don't think the average person really understands what it's like to live in a fishbowl. Yours is surely a labor of love, especially considering the salary for your 24-7 job.
Hear,Hear!!
This is great news Tommy; enjoy your homecomong and keep up the good, hard work. As I often say when I call "the mayor's office', if you need help etting motiavted to swim in one of our fabulous pools, give me a ring. See you back in Rosi soon!
Time to start kickin Connollys butt Mr. Mayor.
Glad he is doing better. Will the City be reimbursed, or Menino taxed, on the luxe quarters? Lots of folks would love a handicapped accessible place to recover, but it isn't in the budget.
It's a City building you dope.
The mayor of Boston gets a good salary, but it's not great. As a taxpayer, I say Mayor Menino or any future mayor can "live" anywhere they want. Walk a mile in his shoes, you know? I think a member of Congress can get away from their job on the weekends, but the mayor and governor are "always on duty." I respectively disagree.
The Parkman Mansion on Beacon, well that is splendid accomodations for our ailing Mayor. I wish him Godspeed in his return to good health and his home in Roslindale. Now, just how many 'mansions' does Boston maintain for officials/dignitaries and assorted Brahmins/Kennedys? Just asking in case I am in need of a 'handicapped accessible' mansion in future, not terribly far from Dean and DeLuca that is...
Just one and I'ts accassible because it has a ground level back door. Such extravagances I know.
I wish Mayor Menino and his lovely wife nothing but the best and I am truly grateful for all he's done for the city I love. But I think its time he stepped aside. The Mayor's health is clearly not good so I think he would be better off as a private citizen. Also, though, I think the city will be better off. I'm still trying to figure out who was running the city when the Mayor was virtually incapacitated. And, finally, sometimes its good to get new ideas and energy - maybe not Connelly but someone.
Somebody mentioned reimbursement. . . The President gets his White House meals as part of his free rent. But since when does the mayor of Boson get accomodations equivalent to the President of the U.S.? Some states have gubernatorial mansions, but the Peoples Republic of Taxashoosetts has not reached that point yet. So how's about answers to these queries: does the mayor pay for his meals at Parkman House? Does his true luv, Angela, stay there with him, and if so, who pays for her munchies? Does the mayor pay rent for the Parkman house? Who's paying for work supposedly being done to 'improve' his Roslindale house? Didn't James Michael pay for his own Jamaicaway digs? Mumbles hasn't been to jail yet, so it's a bit presumptuous for him to live in a style more or less attributable to James Michael.
..groan...
Still goofy, I see. The mayor lives in Hyde Park not Rozzie and the Parkman House is actually supposed to be the mayor's residence. But you're Boatwrote so it may be hard for you to understand.
Whatever you decide to do in the future, thank you for a job well done!