CCA Survey Results
In September 2010, members of the CCA e-mail list submitted answers to the Survey on Town Council 20-year agreement with Whalerock
...read the answers
In August 2010, members of the CCA e-mail list submitted answers to the Survey on Housing Issues in Charlestown
...read the answers
In November 2009, 244 members of the CCA e-mail list submitted answers to the Survey on Wind Power in Charlestown
...read the answers
In April, 2009, CCA surveyed the members of the CCA e-mail list to discover your opinions about casinos and wind mills
...read the answers
The Great Flood of 2010
In March, Rhode Island experienced devestating floods. When the flloding occured we asked our e-mail list members to take and submit to us photgraphs of the flood.
You can see those beautiful but tragic photographs here ...
CCA 2nd Annual Meeting a Great Success
On a mild morning on April 26, 2008, Charlestown Citizens came together at the Quonnie Grange to review the last year and brain storm about the future of our town. CCA had two major announcements to make. The first was to make public our new web site and the second was to announce that CCA has become a PAC. We needed to become a PAC in order to be active in the November 2008 elections.
If you missed the annual meeting, we have provided some of the meeting documents here ...
Tribe renews push to force casino into Charlestown
In November 2006, voters defeated the Narragansett Tribe's casino proposal by a margin of over 2 to 1. The tribe's campaign themes had been "Let the voters decide", and let's decide "once and for all". But as soon as the voters resoundingly voted no on casinos, the Tribe renewed their efforts to force a casino into Charlestown without voter approval. Almost immediately after the failed referendum, the Tribe began to lobby the Rhode Island Congressional delegation to repeal or alter the so called Chafee Amendment to the Rhode Island Indian Claims Settlement Act. The Settlement Act puts the Tribe's land in Charlestown under the State Constitution and State law, thus giving the citizens of Charlestown the same rights as other citizens of Rhode Island, the right to hold binding referendums on the establishment of gambling facilities and the right to say no.
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Important Meetings
Town Hall Calendar (won't work in all browsers) gives a complete listing of times of meetings for the Town Council and other commissions.
Below we have listed some important upcoming meetings and events for different boards and commissions. Links are provided for each board for meeting times and places and agendas.
Town Council
Wednesday September 8 at 5:30 PM
Agenda meeting
Monday September 13 at 7 PM
Monthly meeting
Agendas and minutes for TC
Planning Commission
Wednesday September 1 at 7 PM
Workshop
Wednesday August 25 at 7 PM
Subdivision review
Agendas and minutes for PC
Zoning Board
Some previously unbuildable lots near or bordering the ponds may be deemed buildable by Zoning Board decisions at upcoming meetings.
Agendas and minutes for ZB
Charlestown Town Council Meetings on TV
If you have cable TV, you can watch the Charlestown Town Council meetings on TV, as well as the Charter Revision Committee meetings. Please turn to Channel 18. If you want to know when the meetings are being broadcast, get on the CCA email list and you'll receive the schedule from us as it becomes available.
Charlestown Tax Assessments
Follow this link to check out the tax assessment on your property and compare your assessment to other properties in Charlestown.
Town Council voting record now at our web site
We want to make it easy for Citizens of Charlestown to keep track of how their Town Council voted.
Go to our TC voting record page ...
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of RI and Charlestown and the twenty-one States who joined us in keeping land under local and State control
Twenty-one states and RISC joined Rhode Island and the Town of Charlestown in fighting a ruling that would have placed 31 acres in Charlestown under the Narragansett Indian Tribe’s control. This ruling if it had not been appealed would have removed this land from local regulation and taxation and would have paved the way for a casino.
States ranging from Alaska to Massachusetts backed Rhode Island’s position in a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Connecticut attorney general’s office. “This issue is profoundly important to all states that face efforts to take land into trust,” Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said. “The decision essentially lowers the bar for the secretary of interior to take land into trust.”
We have had a tremendous victory at the Supreme Court, but the Tribe is now lobbying Congress to pass a law that would fix the Court's ruling and once again allow land to be taken out of local control and allow a casino in Charlestown. The Supreme Court returned to us the same rights that all citizens of Rhode Island have, the right to vote on the establishment of a gambling hall in our Town. Congress is now being asked to take our voting rights away.
More inside: read the appeals, and the friend-of-the-court briefs and related newspaper articles.