an email sent to a selectmen by me:
Over and done, two yes votes, however, there seems to be movement on part of BOS to provide as little information as possible. Point 1, not reading articles at town meeting, point 2, I asked the TA for a budget to actual for school project and all I got was partial information with acc'ts payable, encumbrances and pending contractual amounts missing. I know such a document exists because I have a copy from March of 2016. Advisory Committee exists because of MGL and town by-laws. Lastly, if any selectmen wish to know how I vote at advisory meetings, they should attend meetings, especially pre town.
Over and done, two yes votes, however, there seems to be movement on part of BOS to provide as little information as possible. Point 1, not reading articles at town meeting, point 2, I asked the TA for a budget to actual for school project and all I got was partial information with acc'ts payable, encumbrances and pending contractual amounts missing. I know such a document exists because I have a copy from March of 2016. Advisory Committee exists because of MGL and town by-laws. Lastly, if any selectmen wish to know how I vote at advisory meetings, they should attend meetings, especially pre town.
Good day,
Bennett
Bennett
PS, if you are written about or mentioned on my blog by me, it is because you (you as in anyone) are doing something. If you are doing nothing, you may never see your name there, think about that.
One item the selectmen seem ready to do to fix their fu%k up is to close the senior center. How about the selectmen take some heat and make the tough call, use the 40 thousand dollars in un-allocated funds, (from annual town meeting May 14, 2016) stop the raises given and then move some funds around (transfers) and make up their 87,500.00 mistake that way rather than punishing innocent people, the seniors.
By the way, that was the illegal part, I am told, about article 8. by rescinding the entire article, you would be hurting other innocent parties, because money has already been spent, encumbered, on accounts payable or by way of a promissory, as in awarding future work or "promising" and then that contractor turns down other work because they believe they have a job in waiting. For article 8 to be legal, it would have been to reduce the appropriation down to 4 million dollars. Again, the selectmen would need to be asked if they did or would they ask town counsel to "fix" the wording. Since the selectmen control how access to town counsel happens, I think the answer would be a NO. Besides, the selectmen seem implicit in all the children being used as pawns for a town meeting. Right up there with using children as a commodity in fixing a budget, school choice.
Also nice to see all those people up and leave right after the school vote, perhaps they had to get all the children home to bed for school the next day!
posted by Jeff Bennett
Talk around town is that a Selectman want's to lay off some of the guys on the highway ! Yes, during the winter ! I guess that is payback for not taking money from Stabilization to fix a screw up. As far as I can tell, it is the right of the people to do what they feel is right, and they did not feel taking what little money we had set aside to pay a bill was right. Just for the hell of it, did anyone call the bank and ask for a refund ?? Dan Keeney was right when he warned the people in our Town to stop using money from free cash or stabilization. Why on earth didn't anyone listen to him ? Oh yes, he was just a appointed committee member !!
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know there has been no talk of closing the Senior Center or laying off highway people? Where is that coming from? We haven't even had a public meeting to discuss the Special Town meeting yet so how is it the "Selectman" are fixing there <*&^> that way? The meeting just happened so I am over here shaking my head as to things that are said or heresay etc....
ReplyDeleteCurious how some of this information gets out there. *sigh*
Another thing, I understand what you say about your name being out there and to think about that, but for someone to downright be rude and condescending, no thank you.
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