Section 4: Towns; power to contract; purposes
Section 4. A city or town may make contracts for the exercise of its corporate powers, on such terms and conditions as are authorized by the town meeting in a town, the town council in a town without a town meeting, the city council in a city with the approval of the mayor or the city council in a Plan D or Plan E city with the approval of the manager, or as otherwise authorized in accordance with a duly adopted charter. A city or town may not contract for any purpose, on any terms, or under any conditions inconsistent with any applicable provision of any general or special law.
It seems the selectmen may have put the Templeton Town Treasurer / Collector on administrative leave. The Templeton police may have escorted her out of Town Hall.
We shall see!
It seems the Town Administrator may have emailed all Town employees and asked them for their usernames and passwords. This may be for the proposed IT upgrade and under the guise of security, but the first question is what about the Deputy Assessor and Town Accountant and their username and password for VADAR. Advisory asked for electronic access to VADAR so as to be able to electronically look at Town finance picture and the committee were told an additional user involved fees. Now with the Town Administrator asking for usernames and passwords, he could conceivably go onto any sight as someone else (using their username and password) and make changes, look at information and other things. If this in fact happening and the T/A gathers usernames and passwords, I think VADAR needs to be contacted and informed of this. Perhaps this is another control thing.
So with the selectmen presenting a budget that is already proven to be flawed, a possible treasurer/collector missing in action so to speak, the T/A making more control moves, one has to admirer the smooth operation at town hall.
posted by Jeff Bennett
What if someone gets the password to an program like VADAR, and goes in to make changes. Who gets blamed ? The assessor or accountant ?? You bet ! Would I give them my password ? No way ! I do think the Advisory Committee should be able to look at the information. We are not planning to make changes, so why would there be a extra charge ? Somewhere there is a problem with how our budget is planned. Jeff Ritter called it a structural deficit, and it has been an ongoing problem for a good long time. We, the members of the Advisory Committee are determined to figure out what is wrong and to fix it. We, as a town cannot continue as we have been, and you do not have to be a Rhodes Scholar to know that. Bev.
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