So Templeton has had an economic development industrial corporation for a while. Okay, so it took a while and some prodding from a resident (s) to get them to at least make it look like it was created properly. Then there was 200 thousand dollars that was handed over to them, keep in mind that is supposed to be a separate corporation from the town. Seems like all they are doing is trying to figure out how to spend 200K rather than bring business to town. Case in point, a company comes in, goes to planning board wanting to build a business in town, not impacting school costs with more kids, the location is next to route 2A (you may call it patriots road) route 2 and an off ramp from route 2. It is a pretty "clean" business, so why be against this. You either want some type of business in town or you do not. If you are waiting on edic to come thru, well, I will probably be in the ground before they do anything concerning bringing economic development to Templeton.
Well let see. Laurie should be getting a separate paycheck from EDIC funds right, or do they actually have any.
ReplyDeleteI know they received a $200,000 grant to Bringing Economic Developement to Templeton, but......
I know mrpc was scheduled for $29,000( I'm sure mrpc Director and EDIC Chairman are pleased). Then I know Tctv/Montachusett TV/Digital Lab were looking for funds. Then it appears Mike is looking to just throw out random property owners land (could be friends) as potential developement properties before they even certified by the old DHCD or have any basis for having that thought at this point m in the game.
My interpretation is it was a money grab pure and simple. It's supposed to be for Economic developement, not the funding of multiple quasi government agencies picking funds off it to maintain thier bloated budgets and ideas.