Templeton Town by-laws -
Article IV - Advisory Committee
section 1. There shall be an Advisory Committee (not a board) consisting of seven legal voters of the town who shall be appointed by the Moderator as herein provided. No elective or appointive town officer or town employee shall be elgible to serve on said committee, except that a representative from the Advisory Committee shall be entitled to serve on Capital Planning and the insurance advisory committee. (That last one is in correct according to state law)
Section 5. In the discharge of it's duty, said committee shall have free access to all books of record and accounts, bills and vouchers on which money has been or may be paid from the town treasury. Officers, boards and committees of the town, shall, upon request, furnish said committee with facts, figures and any other information pertaining to their several activities.
Section 6. It shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee to make an annual report of its doings, with recommendations relative to financial matters and the conduct of town business, to be contained in the annual town report.
Labor contracts are town business, adding to debt in any way is town business. This current board of selectmen who signed off on contracts, have been so far unable to get a fire chief and now a town administrator. The board of selectmen I served on had no such problem and now the question (s) should be, why? What keeps getting in the way of getting these vital positions filled?
Why did the purchase of a truck not go through capital planning? Why would a board or department head go the deficit spending route? It seems the go around town meeting is the preferred route for some and that should be taken seriously and as an insult to the voters/taxpayers, in my opinion.
posted by Jeff Bennett
All these questions and no viewers to answer the questions our Gifted Advisor has no clue about or will ever have one.
ReplyDeleteLets just put out all the laws and cut and paste the most to see if the guiness world book of records has JEFFY BENNETT in if for the most posted with least results ever in the history of a Advisory Committee member.
Well if nothing else people will get a good,good laugh.
I know i do. What about you Bud!
(That last one is in correct according to state law)
He could have looked it up prior to breaking all the rules about it.See Jeffy sat in on a meeting and was not sworn in or should have never been allowed.
So he is a Advisor? Sec.6 Don't forget the town report and the pilot amount Jeffy.
Could have check like he should have.
Or was he busy taking care of the DANA pool.
So is MASS #49th due to the high price we paid for contractor plowing?
Why do we need to spend such a ginormus amount to salt and plow it off before it has a 1/2 inch on it. Who pays for the signs those wing plows ruin?
Capital Planning can only happen when the towns finances get fixed and it has no fixes in sight. Year after Year same thing and when we get the audit results that will be when the time would come to ask people to step aside and allow some people who can do instead of Do Do.