By Ginger Kozlowski & Jodi Wolfe
Staff Writer

An e-mail sent by Hooksett Town Councilor Philip Fitanides to fellow town councilors and the press regarding plans for the conversion of Hooksett Village School to a town hall and community center has gotten Fitanides in hot water.

At the April 13 Hooksett Town Council meeting, Steve Korzyniowski of the Community Economic Development Corporation Of Hooksett (CEDCOH) addressed the council regarding Fitanides.

Korzyniowski said it had come to the attention of CEDCOH that Fitanides had been communicating with other councilors and members of press about CEDCOH's involvement with the new community center slated for the former Hooksett Village School.

Korzyniowski said it was unnecessary for Fitanides to take those actions and suggested he approach CEDCOH about any issues he would like to discuss.

"(CEDCOH) is working hard to provide the town with a new community center (and town offices)," Korzyniowski said to the town councilor, who appeared to be both shocked and amused.

The e-mail questioned the authority of Hooksett legal counselor Bart Mayer to negotiate with Dawn Stanhope of CEDCOH and whether Town Administrator Moni Sharma should have drafted a memorandum of understanding to Mayer.

Town Councilor Douglas St. Pierre responded back to Fitanides in an e-mail also received by the press saying, "Your approach offends me as a fellow council member. I want this issue on the floor of the TC ASAP and I am not going to stand by with your constant attacks of everyone is up to no good in your eyes. I have grown very tired of this."

Stanhope had no comment on the situation.

In closing his statement, Korzyniowski invited Fitanides and the other councilors to CEDCOH 's next board meeting on Thursday, April 21, at Southern New Hampshire University's Webster Hall.