Depot Pond with Baldwinsville water supply dam, listed as private owned and a significant hazard on Ma dam safety website. Listed as verified. Looks like state already checked this one out and listed it as significant hazard.

Depot Pond with Baldwinville water supply dam, listed as private owned and a significant hazard on Ma dam safety website. Listed as verified. Looks like state already checked this one out and listed it as significant hazard,

 I made a deal with Bear, involving time and food, so he let me off the leash. I have taken out nomination papers for the position of selectman. Since Sunday is Easter, I will be out this afternoon and all day Saturday asking people to sign my papers. Signing does not mean you have to vote for me, it just gets my name on the ballot and then it is all up to voters. Thursday, March 28, when I took out papers, there was only me and current selectman Richard trying for the one spot on the ballot for the select board. I hope to give the voters another choice besides Richard or blank. There is always the possibility of a write in candidate as well. I hate having to bother people to ask them if they would sign a paper, but over the years, I have met many cool pups and a few cats, cats always seem leerier than pups for some reason.

 https://www.templetonma.gov/home/news/nomination-papers-for-the-annual-town-election-are-now-available-thru-thursday-march-28th

 So, here we go again, election time is coming and one can go to town hall to take out nomination papers. It was posted to the town website, and it was at the top of the list (as it should be in my opinion) but, the website just now shows The presidential primary will be held March 5, 2024, and I clicked link, and it shows as posted on February 7, 2024. The post on nomination papers is still posted, it is the 6th item shown on town website in center of page.

Next, I looked at agenda for next Templeton selectmen meeting, which is posted for Wednesday, March 5, 2024. What I do not find is electronic agenda items for draft town meeting warrant and budget, which as selectmen Toth commented at last selectmen meeting "all things for the meeting are supposed to be in packet, electronically before the meeting. Selectmen operating procedures states; 3.) Availability of Meeting Packet: The meeting packet, complete with all support materials available at the time, shall be transmitted to the Board members electronically no

later than 5 p.m. on the Friday preceding the meeting. Thereafter, it shall be available to the general public in paper form in the Board’s offices and on the Town's web site.

Is the primary more important to local residents than nomination papers and annual local elections? Nomination paper info shows posted to town website on February 26, 2024. The presidential primary is done, the annual election is upcoming. Tax dollars pay for this "service."

 Anyone can do this, go online, type mytowngovernment.org and then click Templeton, then look for select board, click that and scroll down to old meetings, look for selectboard meeting of February 9, 2022, find agenda packet and click on it, when it opens scroll down to item 5d. This is 3 pages of description of spending some arpa funds. ARPA administration costs listed at $46,000.00

the form filled in by current town administration. Part of the form states "to provide funding for administration of funds which would cover legal review of all before any monies are distributed."

Suddenly with financial auditors in the building we have a problem?? The town accountant states "I made a surprise visit to town hall" suddenly there is a problem with some arpa funding?

So, now it begins, did the accountant come to town to do some back peddling incase auditors find some bad shit, financially speaking? Did the auditors find the arpa issues? Was $46,000.00 budgeted for admin and it was wasted on bad legal advice or work. Might be time to clean house, town administrator, accountant and town lawyer, open door and kick em to street. A town hires "professional staff" supposedly to keep crap like this from happening. When you get bad advice and bad results, generally the thing to do is fire em and hire someone else. ARPA aside, we are talking a few hundred thousand dollars of your money on a town administrator, accountant and lawyer.