Something needs to be cleared up! 

     Monday. April 11, 2016, there was a public meeting of the Templeton Board of Selectmen. There was a discussion of $47,000.00 of unallocated funds in the FY17 budgets and then the selectmen began to use that money to potentially fund things from the "new initiatives" from department heads. Now on Thursday, April 14, 2016, page 3 of the Gardner News, article titled 'Gansett sees more students to Monty Tech, 2nd column, 3rd paragraph, "Markel added that all departments are fully funded with $47,000.00 unallocated available revenue." So unless this article was written prior to Monday nights meeting of the selectmen, that information is incorrect and is misleading Templeton residents/taxpayers into thinking there are more funds left over than are actually available and that is a bit disturbing. Perhaps contact the author of the story, tvocino@thegardnernews.com and ask her, then contact a selectmen and compare stories.

Jeff Bennett