e-mail from May 2, 2016

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The Warrant with Motions and Summaries is attached.  This is not the official ATM Warrant; the signed Warrant with articles only will be posted on Wednesday morning according to the law.  I included the articles with the motions and summaries for convenience.  

Town Counsel has reviewed all except the motions for the Sewer articles.  Should have their response on these articles tomorrow.  

Bob
Robert T. Markel
Interim Town Administrator
Town of Templeton
160 Patriots Road
East Templeton, MA 01438
(978)894-2753

As soon as the warrant is posted, I will place a link here that has the warrant and motions so the voters can get a look see before town meeting

Jeff Bennett

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I wonder if any of the five current selectmen knows what this means? I think by the number of financial transfers that have taken place over the past year along with the number of special town meetings that have been held, I tend to think not. I believe this will be shown at the next Annual Town meeting.

Jeff Bennett

Massachusetts General Law aside, the absence of the report of the Treasurer and Accountant worries me when it comes to financial audits. Are these reports missing because the information for FY2015 is incomplete? Is there an accounting of the Town's debt for fiscal year 2015? And John Columbus cannot put this anywhere but in his lap. No more of it was the ones before us! Not any more.

Jeff Bennett

Jeffrey Kovach Those who did not win will keep running, again and again.

That is a comment by Mr. Kovach on the face book page of John Columbus. So I have to wonder if Mr. Kovach, who is listed as chair of Templeton Democratic Committee, thinks only certain people should be allowed to run for elective office?

I have to ask and will check to see if Mr. Kovach and John Columbus signed the nomination papers of Denise Andrews.
I think I might have to get on Twitter now and start tweeting!

Jeff Bennett

Election:
Thank you for all those who voted for me and thank all for taking the time to vote.
Jeff Bennett will be a candidate for selectman in 2017 - see you then.

People will see a couple of surprises at Town meeting and I will continue on the Advisory Board until next year.

Regards;
Jeff Bennett

So please tell me again how the Templeton Light/Water dept. were surprised that USDA told them they could not borrow money on their own, when this letter clearly states that with regards to borrowing, they are not a legal separate entity and they need to go to Town meeting? Why did the selectmen not know this and question the Light/water dept.? It has only been on file for two years. Once again, a clear demonstration that the house needs to be put in order before a selectmen spends  two years trying to straighten out Town by-laws.

If I did it correctly, you should be able to click on the below link and it should open and show you a letter from the DOR and it will inform you of how the borrowing at Templeton Municipal Light & Water is suppose to go and this is from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.

Jeff Bennett

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 Letter-repsonse to Jeff Bennett OML complaint 4.12.16