Thursday, January 5, 2017

Why would the selectmen try to charge an enterprise fund for a general fund expense?

With the town administrator stating and writing, which means the selectmen must agree, that the Town should be asking the sewer commissioners to "contribute" $11,000.00 to help pay for the town's annual financial audits. These are not audits of the sewer department, these are Town audits with appropriations made at annual town meeting. The selectmen even state there has been funds encumbered to pay for these audits, as in money already set aside. Why go after sewer department? Is the Templeton light and water departments being asked to provide funds to pay for the town's annual audits? The light and water are after all part of the town, they are departments of the town. There is a letter from the Massachusetts department of revenue stating that a municipal light depart is not a separate legal entity of the town. Me thinks the selectmen are just looking for funds because they need it to pay for things they are doing but have no money for, that is my opinion.

posted by Jeff Bennett

soon to be a follow up on what happened for  FY 2014 and what has happened for FY 2017.
One year, the advisory committee made some errors and another year, the selectmen made some errors. seems like there is proof on paper for the two sides or board/committee to agree to disagree but have the two entities looking at the same information in order to try to double check it so the entire Town of Templeton is better served and stop each other from one upping or one looking better than the other, it is not helping the whole Town which we both seem to like to say we do.

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