To any selectmen who has a face book page or other social media outlet, I will read your pages and I will accept things that check out for use on a blog. Anything that may reflect on town business, is fair game. It is the world we have now. If anyone thinks that employers, news media, corporations, employment search firms, the government, the military etc, do not mine these things for information, well I have some ocean front property in Phillipston for you. If you want to put words somewhere and you want no one else to look at them, start an "old fashioned" diary. However, if you feel inclined to post "unable to sleep because I am so pissed", well expect someone may read that and post it in other places.
Members of the selectmen, members from the planning board on the elementary school building committee yet not one of them asked about or spoke about these issues BEFORE the vote at town meeting? My opinion is that they were worried about the sales pitch not working. Reminds me of the housing boom. Don't worry your mortgage is 2 thousand a month and you only make 1500 a month, you can afford it. Case in point, I was at a meeting of the elementary school building committee and before a vote, I had a question, so I raised my hand and said "Mr. Chairman" and before I could ask, Stephen Hemming told the chair that he thought the committee should have the vote then take the question. What the hell kind of meeting is that. The kind where no boat rocking is wanted or allowed. Time to get the voting list for the town meeting of November 9, 2015 and for the ballot vote and see who was present, then listen to who is now speaking for or against. If their name is not on either list, well there is your answer, you did not bother to show up, you did not bother to accept the ticket bought and paid for. A couple of meetings back, there was discussion by the planning board on whether the conservation commission had anything to do with this, now! Why was all of this not asked BEFORE Town meeting vote, by the committee or members of planning board or conservation or selectmen? Now when people do have questions and are allowed to ask, some people now get "pissed off". Well, some may be mad that a planning board voted that way, but there are more people mad that you did not get the budget right, again, after you told them everything was/is fine. The sales pitch is unraveling faster than the Templeton 2017 so called budget.
posted by Jeff Bennett
It is amazing that people are happy to forget the three votes that were taken about wether the town wanted this school ! Unless I am getting senile, I could I say there were three no votes. Oh yes, then there was the Town Meeting, you know the one where everyone did not get counted ! That was also the Town Meeting where a paper vote was not allowed ! The great lie, you know the one about it costing 1.74 on the tax rate. There is no way on this earth that the school was going to cost us 1.74 ! We do not even have a bond rating !! The Planning Board Members who voted against this did everyone a favor. Thank you for the people brave enough to do the right thing,
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