– Quincy Massachusetts News from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch Maladministration yet again loses in court.

Courtesy of a dime dropped to Quincy Quarry that consisted of the germane court documents, it is able to break the news that Mayor Koch was found by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to be woefully mistaken in his belief that the City of Quincy owned the Adams Academy building in Quincy Center.

The Adams Academy building is where the Quincy Hysterical Society is currently a tenant.  

The hystericals have but a bit more than a year left to go on its bargain-basement and well below fair market value fifty-year lease given to it by city fathers past and which features a fixed rental rate that had long left the beneficiary of the rental income, the Woodward School for Girls, hard-pressed financially.

The Woodward School School for Girls
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This latest dispute among many dating back to at least 2007 between the City of Quincy and the Woodward School for Girls commenced in October of last year when the trustee for the Adams Temple and School Trust, a trust which now solely benefits the Woodward School, initiated the appropriate steps to seek the Supreme Judicial Court’s blessing to proceed with the sale of the Adams Academy building with the likely hope of doing so as close as possible to when the Hysterical’s lease expires in 2022.

in January of this year, Mayor Koch, however, had his consiglieri Dim Timmins cross-file against the trustee’s filing to secure approval to sell the Adams Academy building, asserting that the City of Quincy controlled the property and could so do with it as Mayor Koch deemed appropriate.

Dim Timmins hat and stool in the corner
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In response, however, Dim yet again yet got his head handed back to him on a platter in court and this time by Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly Budd.

Justice Budd summarily rejected Dim’s arguments in her ruling dated December 2, 2020.

Simply put, Justice Budd found that the Koch Machine was improperly endeavoring to reopen various final judgment court rulings which were either affirmed or made by the Supreme Judicial Court, including that the Adams Academy property was found to be an asset of the Adams Temple and School Trust, the Adams trust was solely for the benefit of Woodward School, and that the City of Quincy be sacked as trustee of the trust given its decades of at least dire mismanagement of the trust.

Also note that before Chief Justice Budd’s ruling, Mayor Koch had made much publicly last summer of his plans to use the Adams Academy as a municipal museum to house the President John Adams personal library and which Koch has also claimed is under the control of the City of Quincy.  

Further, in late September Mayor Koch publicly insisted that the Boston Public Library return the Adams collection to Quincy.  The Boston Public Library has for over 120 years undertaken the care and conservancy of this priceless collection. 

Consiglieri DIm, left, and the mayor, right.
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While as near as Quincy Quarry can tell, there has so far been no formal legal action(s) filed by the City of Quincy press for control of the Adams collection, Quincy Quarry has already reviewed this separate matter and so expects that any such filing(s) that might be made by the City of Quincy would also be rejected. 

In fact, if any entity has control over the books, Quincy Quarry would suggest that ultimately it is Woodward’s call as to where the books are to be kept.

Fortunately for Quincy taxpayers who have and in some case still are funding Mayor Koch’s many quixotic legal quests, this latest dispute decided by the Supreme Judicial Court likely ran short money.

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Unfortunately, however, Quincy Quarry fully expects that Mayor Koch will likely file for an en banc review of the rejection of his claim that the City of Quincy should have control over the Adams Academy property. 

That and after losing any such review, it is only reasonable to assume Koch will then opt to stubbornly pursue using tax money to buy the building, not to mention seek who only knows how much more taxpayers’ money to burn through to endeavor to force the Boston Library to return John Adams personal library to Quincy, not that he likely to succeed with this gambit either.

In any event, Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers can count on it to report on future related developments as appropriate.

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