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When Citizens announced that they were taking 700+ employees from their Jefferson Blvd. location and relocating them to Johnston I called the relocation people at Citizens to ask what Warwick did to attempt to keep them here. Knowing that the loss of 700 employees would have a huge detrimental effect on businesses in the area (like The Sandwich Junction around the corner), I wanted to compare what Mayor Avedisian did to what I would have done as Mayor. The nice woman I spoke to said that "no one returned my calls".

For the record, if it was me I would have done more. A lot more! I would have called, visited, influenced, negotiated, offered, incentivized, renegotiated, etc. In short, I would have done everything in my power to keep them here. 700 employees! That is such a large number of people, with such a large effect on our businesses. Our loss. Johnston's gain.

Sorry to see them go.

Happy Valentines everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor