from Templeton town website:
POSTED ON: JULY 12, 2023 - 4:56PM
River's Edge
The Town of Templeton has been focusing on getting projects completed. We would like to highlight the River's Edge Conservation Area which was completed in 2022. The name of the site was selected based on a survey that was conducted. It was commemorated on May 9, 2022. The Town of Templeton received a Senate and House proclamation recognizing this new green space. Since that day, the Emergency Management building had their overhead doors painted with a matching green.
Okay grasshopper, what about getting some other things completed.
Highlights some more Templeton projects; Senior Center kitchen, Scout Hall Project started in 2016 (what exactly will be in there if it is ever complete) Stone Bridge - money voted for this in 2019 and 2020, total funds sitting there, $83,337.00. Main Street Bridge, article 10, STM November 2019 "$200,000.00 should get us to 75% design and permitting by summer of 2020 which may allow us to apply for grant from MA works." Summer of 2023 and we still waiting on santa clause. Cupola on Town Hall, still waiting. Has anyone driven down Otter River Road and come to flooded road at N. Main Street intersection? Yeah grasshopper, keep trying to tell us how many projects have been completed. Just in case people forgot, Riveres edge was voted on in November 2015, article 6, to establish a conservation area, which was "hijacked" by a few selectmen to turn it into a veterans park, which by the way, how is that coming along and what happened to materials, if any, that were collected and donated?
In case they forgot or do not know, article 6, special town meeting, November 2015.
On a motion duly made and seconded the Town voted that Ninety-Eight Thousand Dollars
($98,000) be hereby appropriated by the Templeton Community Preservation Fund to provide
for the removal of the two buildings at 4 Elm Street, and further, to establish a conservation area
under the jurisdiction of the Conservation Commission and maintained by the Cemetery and
Parks Department; and that the Board of Selectmen, or such other Town board as the Board of
Selectmen may designate, be authorized to acquire by purchase or gift and hold in the name of or
enforceable by the Town and to grant a non-profit organization, charitable foundation or
corporation, such conservation restrictions that will meet the requirements of Chapter 184 of the
General Laws, as may be necessary or proper to carry out the foregoing.
Passed Unanimously/November 9th @ 9:25pm
Don't forget Scout Hall. Didn't that start in 2016 as a $50,000 project? How many additional troths of money have we allocated to that mess and it's still not done and even if it was we have no real PLAN for usage of the building with 1 parking spot.
ReplyDelete7 years into a project you find lead paint, pretty much says it all. Handled by Selectboard, championed by Mrs Richards.
Dont forget that we are about the complete the Police station finally. The extra $275,000 for a new HVAC system .
ReplyDeleteA plan that started out as a $975,000 remodel, ended up costing more like $3,000,000.00 or about 350% of original estimate.
Dont forget that a portion of this costs was for "dispatch" space so add that to the costs of dispatch in Templeton.