Friday, March 1, 2024

 Anyone can do this, go online, type mytowngovernment.org and then click Templeton, then look for select board, click that and scroll down to old meetings, look for selectboard meeting of February 9, 2022, find agenda packet and click on it, when it opens scroll down to item 5d. This is 3 pages of description of spending some arpa funds. ARPA administration costs listed at $46,000.00

the form filled in by current town administration. Part of the form states "to provide funding for administration of funds which would cover legal review of all before any monies are distributed."
Suddenly with financial auditors in the building we have a problem?? The town accountant states "I made a surprise visit to town hall" suddenly there is a problem with some arpa funding?


So, now it begins, did the accountant come to town to do some back peddling incase auditors find some bad shit, financially speaking? Did the auditors find the arpa issues? Was $46,000.00 budgeted for admin and it was wasted on bad legal advice or work. Might be time to clean house, town administrator, accountant and town lawyer, open door and kick em to street. A town hires "professional staff" supposedly to keep crap like this from happening. When you get bad advice and bad results, generally the thing to do is fire em and hire someone else. ARPA aside, we are talking a few hundred thousand dollars of your money on a town administrator, accountant and lawyer.

2 comments:

  1. I cannot believe it! When you dont follow the Financial Management Plan you create problems...........hmmmm.

    I'm sure we'll fix that just like we fix everything else, eliminate the Financial Management Plan.

    Policy, Procedure, Bylaws, MGL's, FMP, are all being overlooked and these folks are still cashing their checks........why?
    Most folks who don't follow the rules, regulations or policies of their employer get canned, not in Templeton

    Selectboard, TA, ATA, Accountant and Lawyer have managed our financial status into a troubled spot.

    We have Debt Exclusions, Overrides, and funding for poorly managed projects..........enjoy the government you voted for............

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  2. Bev. Bart.10:12 AM

    Until we clean house we will follow the same path as we always do. "Poor House, enter here." This is a big, big problem you can't ignore because it won't fix itself. If you want something to show for your hard earned tax dollars, changes have to be made.

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