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Friday, March 13, 2026
The below link is to article on body camera and associated equipment grants.
Did the Administrator over at Templeton Police file an application for this or any other grant to take some of the weight off Templeton taxpayers...... When we had a grant writer, was this writer being utilized for placing such grants to help fund ongoing replacement items or were they solely being used to increase services, create unfunded mandates within Templeton.
I haven't heard of many Fire, Police, DPW, grants being brought forward in the past few years, have you?
Most of the stuff Towns get through grants are low priority items for taxpayers. They are what lobbyists convince legislators to fund. Then the bureaucracy puts rules and hoops we must hire a "grant writer" to navigate. It's not a skill, it's just an inside track on stupid bureaucratic rules.
I can do without those low-tech signs Templeton has to tell where to get a flu shot. And TPD could pay for bodycams without grants
Grants are wasteful. Stop taxing and spending to fund these boondoggles.
Tell that one to Athol...............New Pumper engine ($605,000) via grant. New Ambulance ($437,000)in 2023 via grant. Orange 2018 received $561,906 for a new fire engine through grant.
So it appears you think these are low priority items.........If the Police pay for bodycams from budget it costs Templeton taxpayers directly. If we get a Grant its either Federal or State money so it cost Templeton taxpayers far less.
Being so anti government you cut you own throat is not wise, frugal or conservative.
The money to pay for those "grants" is tax money. It's the government bureaucracy giving you some of your taxes back, to spend the way they see fit, after siphoning off their cut.
Did the Administrator over at Templeton Police file an application for this or any other grant to take some of the weight off Templeton taxpayers......
ReplyDeleteWhen we had a grant writer, was this writer being utilized for placing such grants to help fund ongoing replacement items or were they solely being used to increase services, create unfunded mandates within Templeton.
I haven't heard of many Fire, Police, DPW, grants being brought forward in the past few years, have you?
Most of the stuff Towns get through grants are low priority items for taxpayers. They are what lobbyists convince legislators to fund. Then the bureaucracy puts rules and hoops we must hire a "grant writer" to navigate. It's not a skill, it's just an inside track on stupid bureaucratic rules.
ReplyDeleteI can do without those low-tech signs Templeton has to tell where to get a flu shot. And TPD could pay for bodycams without grants
Grants are wasteful. Stop taxing and spending to fund these boondoggles.
Tell that one to Athol...............New Pumper engine ($605,000) via grant. New Ambulance ($437,000)in 2023 via grant.
DeleteOrange 2018 received $561,906 for a new fire engine through grant.
So it appears you think these are low priority items.........If the Police pay for bodycams from budget it costs Templeton taxpayers directly. If we get a Grant its either Federal or State money so it cost Templeton taxpayers far less.
Being so anti government you cut you own throat is not wise, frugal or conservative.
The money to pay for those "grants" is tax money. It's the government bureaucracy giving you some of your taxes back, to spend the way they see fit, after siphoning off their cut.
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