from the meeting with selectmen, advisory committee and DOR/division of local services.
Sean Cronin (senior deputy commissioner of local services) The DOR is here to help Templeton and Templeton needs sound policies and procedures.
Templeton faces significant financial challenges.
MJ Handy: (director of bureau of accounts) Templeton has spent more than it has budgeted.
DOR is committed to working with Templeton. (it costs nothing extra as this service is already paid for by way of state taxes, so why spend more on the Collins institute)?
Spent more than budgeted, Town meeting votes to put so much money to pay for this or that and then the selectmen okay spending more than the people gave them permission to spend. Who has the job of watching this and ensuring that does not happen? Why has this continually happened since 2014 town meeting when the fiscal 2015 budget/spending plan was presented to town meeting?
It appears the board of selectmen have not learned anything from past mistakes. Now the selectmen will complain they are short staffed and are spending too much time on complaints so other work is not getting done. Selectmen made the choice to go done that road so now deal with it.
posted by Jeff Bennett
The Town of Templeton has always spent more than it collected in taxes, if you stop to consider they also relied on money from the Templeton Municipal Light Company. This was an accepted way of doing business for many years. You have to consider that the selectmen at that time, also used all of the money from stabilization and free cash. DOR told them to stop this practice, many more than once. Did they listen ?? Hell no ! That is why we are where we are right now.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the savings associated with moving all town offices to one location? $50k in rent, plus whatever from consolidation of multiple buildings to one?
ReplyDeleteThe "savings" from consolidation were put back into the town hall building at 160 Patriots Rd.
ReplyDeleteWindows, handicap bathrooms, ramp, carpeting, electrical upgrades and computer upgrades, all that good stuff. The roof and the furnace were replaced with CPC money for a "culturally significant" building.
More consolidation will need to take place in my opinion. The use of the Fire Station in Baldwinville by Emergency Management should be moved, in my opinion, to the Fire Department building at 2 School, St. Does anyone else remember the truck that rammed into that Fire Station? I'm pretty sure the bricks used to fix that damage were not "Historically" correct.
I don't know how they will keep Scout Hall open with the budget deficits for FY 18.
Didn't Carter say they were going to sell T-shirts !! Oh yes, that will work !
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