About the Meriline Neighborhood
In 2014, then Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) President Vincent E. Martinelli, Jr., pro-actively responded to the interest of several residents of the Meriline neighborhood. Residents of Rockaway Avenue and of Moreland Avenue, and at least 1 then-sitting Alderman, expressed interest in creating a neighborhood association for the area surrounding Meriline Avenue.
Reasons for creating such a neighborhood included the general and consistent feel of connectivity among the residents in the nearly isolated neighborhood, the desire to keep the neighborhood safe, and the general lack of being included in any other similar organization.
Existing members of the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) and other neighborhood associations that are non-members of the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC), expressed discomfort in the recognition of additional neighborhoods. Despite momentum for the establishment of Meriline as it's own neighborhood, malicious turmoil within the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC), especially after Martinelli's term had expired, turned a cold shoulder to newly-forming neighborhoods and non-member neighborhoods alike.
Therefore, Meriline never became a recognized neighborhood as such. The 3 residents who had expressed interest in being an active member and officer of a Meriline neighborhood association, and of hoping to join the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) as a new member, lost interest in participating, in any way, with any Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) activities, and concluded that their isolation and dissociation from the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) was their best course in the preservation of their neighborhood safety and culture.
Reasons for creating such a neighborhood included the general and consistent feel of connectivity among the residents in the nearly isolated neighborhood, the desire to keep the neighborhood safe, and the general lack of being included in any other similar organization.
Existing members of the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) and other neighborhood associations that are non-members of the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC), expressed discomfort in the recognition of additional neighborhoods. Despite momentum for the establishment of Meriline as it's own neighborhood, malicious turmoil within the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC), especially after Martinelli's term had expired, turned a cold shoulder to newly-forming neighborhoods and non-member neighborhoods alike.
Therefore, Meriline never became a recognized neighborhood as such. The 3 residents who had expressed interest in being an active member and officer of a Meriline neighborhood association, and of hoping to join the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) as a new member, lost interest in participating, in any way, with any Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) activities, and concluded that their isolation and dissociation from the Waterbury Neighborhood Council (WNC) was their best course in the preservation of their neighborhood safety and culture.
