The RI Attorney General's Office emailed me yesterday and informed me they are opening up an investigation on my behalf.   I sent out two APRA (Access to Public Records Requests) for all office minutes, communication, and other correspondance via written, electronic or phone conversations regarding what person or persons is requesting the State Properties Committee approve a 19 - year no bid parking lot lease to Procaccianti Developers.   My second request was to obtain who approved the State of Rhode Island will now have to pay for the demolition of the Lighthouse that was purposely neglected by Procaccianti Developers.  Upon sending the APRA Requests, I received notice that the APRA Requests were denied as records are not available.  How can the RIDEM not have records available on who from the RIDEM recommended that Procaccianti be granted a 19-year no bid parking lot lease and who recommended the State will have to pay for the demolition of the Lighthouse Inn?     I then appealed the notice to the Director of the RIDEM, Terrance Gray.   As I did not hear back from the Director within the alloted time, I contacted the RI Attorney General's Office, and they have now opened a formal investigation.   For Proacaccianti to be awarded a no bid 19-year parking lot lease after he created the worse eyesore on leased land in inexcusable.     The following information is what I found regarding the square footage of the Lighthouse Inn - The Site in question is currently the former Lighthouse Inn Galilee (f/k/a The Dutch Inn), a 100-room, two-level, outside corridor, circa-1968 concrete block building with unpaved parking lots located behind the building. The building area totals approximately 62,543 square feet of which part is one level and part is two levels.  On line it notes the cost per square footage can be up to 8 dollars per square foot and that does not include cost for disposal.    Therefore, it would cost the State of RI Taxpayers approximately $500,000 dollars for the demoltion.    However, I do not know the date of the online estimates, so due to inflation the cost per square footage may even be more.     Sadly, that is not the only cost.   The landfills will also charge the State to dispose of the waste in the landfills.   The debris will also increase the chance of harmful toxins in our landfills.   If every person who leased out land abandoned their building so it needed to be demolished our landfills will be flooded with toxins.    Ironically, the RIDEM now wants to award Procaccianti Developers with a 19-year no bid parking lot lease that will give him millions that will be taken away from the Town of Narragansett and the State of Rhode Island.   Let us not forget, prior to Procaccianti purchasing Champlin's Marina in Block Island the RI Attorney General's Office determined the expansion was illegal.    The residents in Block Island fought the expansion for years, as the expansion would cause harm to the Great Salt Pond.    How ironic, the RIDEM has not been critical of the expanson of the Champlin Marina.   In Research studies that was put forth by residents in Block Island, and they were completed by marine scientists they showed such an expansion of the marina will hurt the Great Salt Pond's fragile ecosystem.   Would you or I be able to expand upon our waterfront land with a boat ramp, pier or other structure if it encroached upon a pond, lake, or ocean if it would cause harm to the ecosystem?      If you or I abandoned our property so that it would have to be demolished as it is now unihabitable due to our purposeful neglect we would have been summoned into court and fined.   We may also have been arrested for created such a public and safety hazard.      Would the RIDEM then offer us a no bid lucrative lease after our gross neglect of property entrusted to me or you?   If you own rental property, who in his or her right mind would extend or renew a lease to an individual or individuals who caused great harm to your property or land?   The RIDEM is failing on protecting our environment by not acting against Procaccianti for their gross neglect to the Lighthouse Inn, and the RIDEM has failed to criticize the illegal expansion of the Great Salt Pond.    If a State Environmental Agency can fail to impose laws and sanctions to a developer that has caused harm to leased land and property under its control it shows the State Agency is being mismanaged.   In additon, by the RIDEM giving a no bid parking lot lease to a developer that grossly neglected property in its care, it will cost the State and Town Millions of Dollars of Lost Revenue.    If Procaccianti is awarded a 19-year parking lot lease it will increase Procaccianti's chances of obtaining the lease for the two abutting lots.    Please let us all continue to fight for liberty and justice for all.    We do not live in a Communist form of government.    We live in a Democracy.    If a State Agency can usurp the powers of the local city or town and award a lease to a developer that has harmed and not helped the leased area of land and the property on the land in the State Agency's control, then that sets out a dangerous precendent.   The actions of the RIDEM if allowed will not only cost Galilee, but it will cost the entire State of RI if it is allowed in more ways than one.