TO: Board of Selectmen
FROM: Carter Terenzini, Town Administrator
RE: Administrator’s Weekly Report
DATE: October 26, 2017
CC: All Departments
Important Notices
Positions Now Open: PT Police Officers & Dispatchers
Fall Town Meeting: 7:00 P.M on November 14th at Narragansett Regional Middle School
Town Hall Hours Change 11/01 (Mon 7:30a to 6:30p; T/W/Th 7:30a to 4:30p)
Please post notices now and prepare to change web pages and printing CoB 10/31
It’s not too early to begin to think about your FY ’19 OPEX and CAPEX budget requests.
Expect budget guidance on or about 12/01/17 and submissions due back on or about 01/01/18
Please make sure all of your units and committees are submitting their projects to the CPC!
Business Meeting or Workshop: The following is intended to supplement agenda items where
a full memorandum may not have been required or updates are needed. N/A
Weekly Report: Efforts were spent finalizing the Fall TM Warrant and circulating it out. I’ve
invited the AC to include their recommendation in the Summaries and Motions package for the
convenience of the users and savings in production labor and costs. I attended the Capital Planning
Committee.
Below is the proposed listing of the reading of motions, advocates, and staff resources in keeping
with the policy Draft you reviewed at the 10/16 workshop. Please review this against the Final
Warrant and let me know if any changes are desired.
Seating Order Motion &
Advocacy Staff Resource(s) Other Advocates
Mr. Caplis 1, 2, 3 Kelli & CT
Mr. Fortes 4, 5, 6 4, 5: Kelli & CT
6: CT & R. Hanks
Ms. Richard 7, 8, 9 7: A. Mayo
8 & 9: CT
Mr. Morrison 10,11,12, 13 10, 11: Kelli & CT K. Moschetti #12 & #13
Ms. Brooks 14, 15, & 16 15: DM 16: S. Castle J. Henshaw #14
We began planning for the entry of the Fellow on Monday and look forward to keeping him quite
busy. Background materials were provided to the ZBA in the run-up to the 11/01 Day Mill hearing.
I’ve become aware of various issues the AG’s office had with both the Veterans Oversight
Committee and the Trenching By-Law. We will craft necessary amendments for the ATM. We
received the specs for the CoA siding. We are reviewing them now and hope to have it out to bid
within two weeks.
"Entry of the fellow" -??? I have gone through the Town Meeting appropriations and found no such position. I have found no motion for a part time Town Administrator nor a "fellow" Again, my thought is the selectmen have ignored Town Meeting vote, which called for the position of a Town Administrator and Town Meeting has appropriated $110,000.00 for that position. (more than the salary for the mayor of Gardner, MA) So, is this fellow a full time position? Does that mean added benefit costs to taxpayers to over. If you reccall, there was concern stated by the interim and part time town administrator that there might not be enough money to pay health insurance costs for town employees. You may also recall (it was includes in several memos from said T/A) that with the position of fire chief open, the requirements of funds may balance out and there would be no need for a financial transfer. That sounds like more financial games and perhaps the real reason the full time position of fire chief was left vacant, in my opinion.
Any way you look at Town finance, it appears not much has changed, less transparency, less business in the open, more power moves by the board of selectmen, selectmen failing to follow state law, town by-laws and even a chairman of the board of selectmen telling a citizen/resident that he does not have to listen to them. There is a meeting to watch to see exactly what was said and to whom and that is next. Here I thought that a selectmen is elected and is suppose to represent the people. I would think those are the ones a selectmen should listen to and is obligated to listen to. Perhaps that thought is against what this group of selectmen is for.
"Entry of the fellow" -??? I have gone through the Town Meeting appropriations and found no such position. I have found no motion for a part time Town Administrator nor a "fellow" Again, my thought is the selectmen have ignored Town Meeting vote, which called for the position of a Town Administrator and Town Meeting has appropriated $110,000.00 for that position. (more than the salary for the mayor of Gardner, MA) So, is this fellow a full time position? Does that mean added benefit costs to taxpayers to over. If you reccall, there was concern stated by the interim and part time town administrator that there might not be enough money to pay health insurance costs for town employees. You may also recall (it was includes in several memos from said T/A) that with the position of fire chief open, the requirements of funds may balance out and there would be no need for a financial transfer. That sounds like more financial games and perhaps the real reason the full time position of fire chief was left vacant, in my opinion.
Any way you look at Town finance, it appears not much has changed, less transparency, less business in the open, more power moves by the board of selectmen, selectmen failing to follow state law, town by-laws and even a chairman of the board of selectmen telling a citizen/resident that he does not have to listen to them. There is a meeting to watch to see exactly what was said and to whom and that is next. Here I thought that a selectmen is elected and is suppose to represent the people. I would think those are the ones a selectmen should listen to and is obligated to listen to. Perhaps that thought is against what this group of selectmen is for.
Also, remember, anyone at town meeting can and should ask anyone who is for a particular article, if they have any vested interest in said article, especially if it is financial.
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