Fiscal 2016 Templeton Town financials might not be closed after all.

No,  I can’t officially close the FY 16 year in the software system until I have good forwarding balances.  However no other entries need to be made that I am aware of.

Kelli Pontbriand

Accountant

Town of Templeton

978-894-2765

From: Templeton, MA Advisory Board [mailto:templetonadvisoryboard@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:46 PM
To: Kelli Pontbriand
Cc: Advisory Committee; Beverly Bartolomeo; Gordon Moore; Jeff Bennett; Julie Farrell; Katharine Fulton; Wilfred Spring
Subject: fy16 Closed out

Kelli,

Thank you for the end of year BvA.   The question we have is are the books for  FY16 closed out yet?

Thanks,

Wil

posted by Jeff Bennett

This blog is getting some publicity, via face book by selectmen  - thank you.

Perhaps someone is getting nervous with the mention of recall and selectmen in the same sentence. That is merely information and a reminder to folks that if they feel they are not getting what they expect from their selectmen, there are options and recall is one of them. It is a process that takes some effort and time but can be done.  

Remember, there are two debt exclusion items for the NRHS district currently on the books for Templeton. Tax rate increases for a certain amount of time for a specific item. The Advisory Committee has been trying to obtain that information for quite some time but the selectmen do not seem to provide that information. Please, someone copy and paste this to their face book page.


posted by Jeff Bennett                                                                            

Financial woes continue  - after the selectmen kept telling everyone that things were all good.


There is a good possibility that there will be a need for an article to pay some fiscal 2016 Town bills out of fiscal year 2017 money. 60 thousand dollars in sewer bills that might not have been paid. So if there is an article to pay for last years bills with this years funds, do not be surprised. There is always the hope that it is an error and no such boo boo was made.

However, if that is true, that would bring the number up close to the 200 thousand dollar range in sought after dollars to fix that balanced budget presented to you by the selectmen on May 14, 2016.

Face book is not personal, it is very public - deal with it.


Looking at a few face book pages of elected officials, one might be led to believe that there are "personal" and private things on face book and the web in general. It seems rather hard to fathom that in this day with all that is placed on the web, how anyone can claim or think that anything put on the web is private. If you wish no one to "see" or read or copy or put in other places, do not put it on the web, especially face book. Stop whining that someone is using stuff off my personal face book page. If it is on face book, it is very public, deal with it, especially if you are elected!

People take what I write or post on Face Book and paste it on other face book pages and I like it, because it gets the information out to even more people. Last time I checked, there is such a thing as free speech, it is not free, as someone has to pay so you may enjoy that benefit. I paid for it so I will use it. Thank you very much!


posted by Jeff Bennett