the Bowman Report, three years later:

For the benefit of some who may be unaware, the Mass. Civil Service Commission, a legal arm of the Commonwealth, issued a 97-page report in early June, 2011, regarding the matter of the removals of two ARA employees. who had civil service standing.   This report was posted here on Patch shortly after its publication.

Commissioner Christopher Bowman determined, after six days of testimony from Dumas, LaCasse, Robbins, and Volterra, that the 'new' ARA Board, on 10/13/09, improperly terminated ARA employees, Meg Ross and Michael Milanoski, because "just cause" was not provided.

Commissioner Bowman found further that the 'new' ARA Board did, in fact, the bidding of Mayor Kevin Dumas; and said Report found Dumas responsible for said infraction.   This was confirmed twice by state courts of appeals.

It is anticipated that Judge R. Moses will sometime issue a decision which will resolve this dispute, the result will be anyone's guess.   However, the City did pay close to a half-million bucks toward the eventual final settlement.

Redevelopment Authorities are designed with a "wall" between any said local Authority, and the community in which it operates.   Such "wall" is designed to insulate the Authority from political interference, but at the same time insulate the city or community from possible debts of the Authority.   However, by KD piercing the wall in engineering a wholesale change of the composition of the ARA Board (to remove MR and MM), said 'piercing' allows the creditors to proceed against the City of Attleboro.  And thus was broken the promise in the early 1990s, that the then-new local Redevelopment Authority would not harm the local taxpayers.

Some may consider this infraction as minor.   I can only refer those to what the state's courts have determined.