Fix and done deal.
The counsel needed but 30 seconds to respond to the Select boards request at the meeting to tell the voters no discussion would happen to #8 as it was an illegal article. He's a "Super" lawyerBut clearly had done some home work " for pay i'll add" and was to QUICK to tell us about the law.
The issue was about the counsel doing any work on a citizens petition.
We are tight on money and to spend it this way shows the how the members and TA will go around and do what they want to suit the needs of their wants.
The counsel needed but 30 seconds to respond to the Select boards request at the meeting to tell the voters no discussion would happen to #8 as it was an illegal article. He's a "Super" lawyerBut clearly had done some home work " for pay i'll add" and was to QUICK to tell us about the law.
The issue was about the counsel doing any work on a citizens petition.
We are tight on money and to spend it this way shows the how the members and TA will go around and do what they want to suit the needs of their wants.
Secondly, legal bills are NOT personnel files. Secondly, school employees are covered under a completely separate legal entity and have completely separate labor contracts. Light & Water have separate labor contracts.
Last i knew the town eats from the same plate.
1-We pay for school costs.
2-we pay for light expenses
3- We pay for water expenses
Secondly?
I sometimes wonder how Jeff thinks,or over thinks issues he writes about.
The uniforms are so the workers all look professional.
Unlike the fleet we use day in and day or night out.
The paid boots are so when we ruin them in the salt/muck,we don't have to purchase again and again
Last i knew the town eats from the same plate.
1-We pay for school costs.
2-we pay for light expenses
3- We pay for water expenses
Secondly?
I sometimes wonder how Jeff thinks,or over thinks issues he writes about.
The uniforms are so the workers all look professional.
Unlike the fleet we use day in and day or night out.
The paid boots are so when we ruin them in the salt/muck,we don't have to purchase again and again
"The paid boots are so when we ruin them in the salt/muck, we don't have to purchase them again and again." Who is the we Davey? You, as an employee? The taxpayer? Who is the "we"?
Jeffy if you can't figure the we out that points out the reason this town is in the shape we are. Ask a simple one Jeffy if we are the ones that ruin them getting into the salty/muck i guess the we would be us workers not needing to pay for them.DUR!
I believe the above shows what part of the problem is, it is still about me rather than the whole. What can I get? No one can blame anyone for trying to get all they can but when you work for a corporation, where everyone is a shareholder, should that dictate tate that everyone should give a little so the WHOLE town (corporation) stays afloat? One acknowledges that the corporation is tight on money but still want everything "because we work for the town." I do not want to pay for my boots, I want someone else to pay for them. That seems to me to be that old "not in my back yard" thing that often comes up when the subject of bringing in business to town. Do it, just do not put anything near my home. Free boots may not seem like much, but consider the cost times the number of employees and what the total cost is or can be. Then consider that another department, inspection services, is asking for a transfer of between $2500.00 and $7500.00 dollars (depending on which document you look at) and consider if it was not for the contractual obligation that Mr. Smart asked for, was not on the table, would there be a need for this transfer? When you are tight on money, the extras put a burden on everyone! So, one gets some extras while another suffers. So much for looking out for the whole town. Maybe it is the fault of the Templeton municipal light & water department?
Templeton needs to stop looking for handouts from every direction, because this dependence has shown that when the "fix" is removed, someone is left holding the bag.
posted by Jeff Bennett
