Thanks to Bill's excellent breakdown the problems with the towns excess spending is as plain as the nose on your face!
The employees of this town write their own paychecks and their relatives help them!!
There are 252 town meeting members -- ONLY SIXTEEN ARE TOTALLY INDEPENDENT MEMBERS--, all the rest have a vested interest in town government!
The Town Meeting has been CORRUPTED and is in need of being DISBANDED!!
It is unworkable, over the years they, the employees of the town from selectman to sewer employee, have figured out how to control all of the town by being elected to town meeting and being appointed or running for/to what ever office /committee they needed to control!
Case in point, the school committee chair is elected and is on town meeting!
She negotiates an budget busting school contract forcing a 2.5% override/exclusion, because of her liberal tax and spend politics, and gets to vote on it in town meeting, if the debate over budget gets too hot to handle, simply ''call the question'' to close the debate, what a way to corrupt a system !
This system is corrupted beyond repair, if an attempt to restrict town meeting to only non-employees, they will institute a law suit and force the issue!
Our only way out of this cesspool of corruption is a new form of government, town meeting as good as it is/was is now hopelessly corrupted!
This exclusion will no doubt pass but in truth it is a total scam, they don?’t need it,
it is PURE AND SIMPLE GREED!!
Bill's take:
?“On the cable show called Conversation with the Candidates Tim Egan said he didn't think town employees voted on matters affecting them directly.
He said he thinks they ''recuse'' themselves. I've been at town meeting for the better part of ten years and have NEVER seen an employee sit a vote out.
In fact I have seen town employees on more than one occasion ''call the question'' thus ending debate on a budget matter.
Just last fall a BELD employee called the question after only three members had spoken to the school dept. budget.
Some difficult questions were being asked and that was stifled.
A few years back an official with the water and sewer department ended debate on a matter affecting his own department AFTER identifying himself as the department manager.
They don't just indulge their conflicts they rub it in your face.?”
By There are 252 town meeting membe
The employees of this town write their own paychecks and their relatives help them!!
There are 252 town meeting members -- ONLY SIXTEEN ARE TOTALLY INDEPENDENT MEMBERS--, all the rest have a vested interest in town government!
The Town Meeting has been CORRUPTED and is in need of being DISBANDED!!
It is unworkable, over the years they, the employees of the town from selectman to sewer employee, have figured out how to control all of the town by being elected to town meeting and being appointed or running for/to what ever office /committee they needed to control!
Case in point, the school committee chair is elected and is on town meeting!
She negotiates an budget busting school contract forcing a 2.5% override/exclusion, because of her liberal tax and spend politics, and gets to vote on it in town meeting, if the debate over budget gets too hot to handle, simply ''call the question'' to close the debate, what a way to corrupt a system !
This system is corrupted beyond repair, if an attempt to restrict town meeting to only non-employees, they will institute a law suit and force the issue!
Our only way out of this cesspool of corruption is a new form of government, town meeting as good as it is/was is now hopelessly corrupted!
This exclusion will no doubt pass but in truth it is a total scam, they don?’t need it,
it is PURE AND SIMPLE GREED!!
Bill's take:
?“On the cable show called Conversation with the Candidates Tim Egan said he didn't think town employees voted on matters affecting them directly.
He said he thinks they ''recuse'' themselves. I've been at town meeting for the better part of ten years and have NEVER seen an employee sit a vote out.
In fact I have seen town employees on more than one occasion ''call the question'' thus ending debate on a budget matter.
Just last fall a BELD employee called the question after only three members had spoken to the school dept. budget.
Some difficult questions were being asked and that was stifled.
A few years back an official with the water and sewer department ended debate on a matter affecting his own department AFTER identifying himself as the department manager.
They don't just indulge their conflicts they rub it in your face.?”
By There are 252 town meeting membe
