TAB MAN9:51 PM
burned out houses left for five years no action from the BOH
DPW not doing their job per the VSO these are just some of the things not getting done Don't look for any more because you will find so many things not getting done you will wonder why you pay taxes But yet we have our accountant going to Hubbardston 10 hours a week and getting paid 7,500 more and the her assistant now at full time and paid benefits and the BOS let us staying the agreement with Hubbardston. OH yes lets give the MGMT fellow a 37.9% pay increase for his lack of experience all this and we are cutting the police and fire. Great job BOS and TA
DPW not doing their job per the VSO these are just some of the things not getting done Don't look for any more because you will find so many things not getting done you will wonder why you pay taxes But yet we have our accountant going to Hubbardston 10 hours a week and getting paid 7,500 more and the her assistant now at full time and paid benefits and the BOS let us staying the agreement with Hubbardston. OH yes lets give the MGMT fellow a 37.9% pay increase for his lack of experience all this and we are cutting the police and fire. Great job BOS and TA
The above is a comment posted to this blog. The part that caught my eye was the 37.9% pay increase for the management (MGMT) fellow. I quickly broke out the budget documentation books for fiscal year 2019 and fiscal year 2020. I looked under the board of selectmen section / personnel, as that is where the salaries for the selectmen office are listed.
What I found - personnel total for fiscal year 2019: $168,750.00
What I found - personnel total for fiscal year 2020 - $170,000.00
At the time this information was presented, selectmen had not added their "salary" yet:
$500.00 per selectmen = $2,500.00, so the $2,500.00 must be added to the $170,000.00, which in no way shows a 37.9% increase in funding.
What might explain the above statement is while the "pile of money" did not increase, the amount going to the management fellow may have increased.
Perhaps the question should be, what would the advisory committee think is the appropriate amount of money to pay for someone to apply for, work / learn the job of Town Administrator and to stick around for a while. This is not a question of hiring experienced T/A, this concerns the current situation, how much is right?
Recall there was a "big to do" from one member of advisory committee concerning a 75% increase in EMD budget; from $1,000.00 per year to $1,750.00 and then it was learned that EMD has brought in about $60,000.00 in grants over the course of the last 10 years or so.
Again, I see no 37.9% in appropriation, only, perhaps, in distribution of a town meeting appropriated amount and I think there is a difference.
