Friday, June 16, 2023

Who is on first base? 

Email sent this morning, June 16, 2023:

Good day, first off, please forward to Matt Rivard as well.
So, on June 14, 2023, ya'll appointed Mike Currie to EDIC for a term of one year, (see packet of 6/14/2023) which is fine, except back on December 14, 2022, we appointed Liz Toth and Mike Currie to EDIC, both to a term expiring on 6/30/2025. So much for paid staff keeping up, never mind board of selectmen tracking stuff.
Point of interest, ya'll listed change order for 10 Pleasant Street in April 26, 2023 meeting minutes but you did not include the two photos (I have all those documents) and you also did not list the TA evaluation paper work that was discussed on April 26, 2023. Now, just in case anyone wishes to try and shovel me some stuff about exemptions, 

(d) Documents and other exhibits, such as photographs, recordings or maps, used by the body at an open or executive session shall, along with the minutes, be part of the official record of the session.

(e) The minutes of any open session, the notes, recordings or other materials used in the preparation of such minutes and all documents and exhibits used at the session, shall be public records in their entirety and not exempt from disclosure pursuant to any of the exemptions under clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4. Notwithstanding this paragraph, the following materials shall be exempt from disclosure to the public as personnel information: (1) materials used in a performance evaluation of an individual bearing on his professional competence, provided they were not created by the members of the body for the purposes of the evaluation;

The evaluation of the TA was complete using paper work created by the board, as in chair, as in I have the email from one chair, Mike Currie and a second chair, Tim Toth, so I do not believe any exemption pertains to this item. Did you all or the TA and chairman intentionally leave the eval off the list? I hope no more money is wasted on town counsel to answer any future OML complaints, I mean you all did not list the documents per OML, a mistake made often, not the end of the world, but it does matter. Please fix this stuff and ensure paid staff follow the rules when putting minutes in front of you for a vote and make sure you actually do what that form you all should have signed says to do. Thank You.

regards,

Jeff Bennett