So at tonight's selectmen meeting, there was discussion on job descriptions and sure enough, assistant town administrator was brought up and Holly Young was named as one. When asked if there would be a posting for any other town employee to apply, ah, not so much. When asked if there would be an impact on the budget, no was the answer, which seems strange when there is presently an increase proposed in the current draft for that very topic, assistant town administrator. But yet for 5 hour increase in Town Clerk's hours, that is a financial concern. Also there would be an increase in hours for the other admin assistant in the BOS office which would make that position qualify for benefits. Some selectmen now think that centralized purchasing of office supplies is now a good idea. That is an idea I proposed back in 2012 but not many selectmen agreed nor did many dept. heads, I think they do not like any interference with their little empires. But it is good to see that now it may be fashionable and money saving as well. Perhaps it was an idea ahead of its time. The best one yet was that apparently some members of the select board think they should be compensated for volunteering to run for the board. Some things never change.  Towards the end of the meeting when dept. heads talked about their budgets, 2 selectmen recused themselves for possible conflict issues. So there were only 2 selectmen left at the table, good thing they did not have to vote on things. I thought Templeton had a five member board of selectmen. 

Jeff Bennett