Authority versus responsibility:
you can delegate authority but not responsibility. Bev, you need to look at the current job description of the Town Administrator and see what responsibilities the administrator has been given by the selectmen. Then look at the articles brought to Town meeting about the personnel board. I believe you will find an article to abolish the personnel board and allow the selectmen to act as such. Then look at the warrant article that created the town administrator position. Look at who brought these articles to town meeting. What ever authority the town administrator has, he was given by the selectmen and or town meeting. It seems odd that some of the same people who were in favor of abolishing the personnel board and making the selectmen act as such suddenly now think it should all go to town meeting. Remember the personnel by-law was abolished or changed and the personnel policy was changed. The place to begin is with those two items and perhaps bring a citizens petition to try to change them. It really all begins and ends with the residents. They get the government they allow.
In my opinion, a citizens group should begin looking at those items and how they could be changed.
posted by Jeff Bennett
Not all changes are for the good. As with anything else in life, there is the good and there is the bad. It would seem to me, that any major changes could wait until the Town has a Administrator that will be here for a while. Why let Carter push a plan that usually takes a year to put into place, jam it into place in weeks ? Oh yes, we are running out of money to get us through until May. Well, there is a plan B ! Cut the hours at Town Hall, use the money in the existing budget to slide through ! It is better than jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Bev.
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