Well, the warrant has been posted on the Town's website. right on the home page! Thank you selectmen for finally using the town website to disseminate information.
There ARE some interesting points in the posted warrant that should make for lively discussion on Saturday. Please don't forget Deliberative Session is at 10:00am on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010.
The warrant starts out with some petitioned planning and zoning articles, that contain issues discussed and advocated by the planning board a number of years ago, when they ALSO contained language that would have effectively gutted wetlands provisions. These articles are obviously someones attempt to get the good language without the bad from before.
Then we get to our budget. Well it has come down in recent weeks, and now is being proposed at $3,927,687.00. But if you don't like that the default budget is $4,310,598.30 How the hell did THAT happen? Has our BOs taken default budgeting lessons at the Dick LaSalle school of budgeting?
We will put aside the budget questions for this article, but I believe expenditures this years were only around 3.65 million or so. In tight economic times when our fellow townspeople are losing their homes, do we really need an extra $300,000 in the budget? Plus warrant articles?
The next article is the chief's new Subaru for elderly affairs. There is a note at the front of the warrant article that will have to come off it before it goes on the ballot, that would be illegal. And yes, we know that the chief's private business is finally making a donation to the town after a year in operation to buy this car(but only if the voters pass it, otherwise there will be no donation) But do we REALLY NEED a FOURTH elderly affairs car, when there is almost ALWAYS at least two of the elderly vehicles in the PD parking lot( and why are they still there by the way, I thought those two depts. were SUPPOSED to be SEPARATED?) in addition to the EIGHT police vehicles. Surely if we NEED another elderly vehicle, we can give a police vehicle to them.
Next up is the chief's bid to make all of his elderly work pay. We actually think this a good idea. Make the Elderly Affairs Director an official town position at a salary of $100/yr. This should be a paid position. Maybe we can transform it into a true elderly service, rather than a political organization.
Next up is the Fire Dept. capital reserve, again can we put this off for a year? Yes we WILL pay for it down the road, but maybe when we have to buy that new ambulance or truck, Congress will not be spending a Trillion Dollars everytime they take a vote. To give chief Murphy his due, he has presented the town with a 30 year vehicle replacement and refurbishment plan. The capital reserve is calculated to have enough money at each point that an expenditure is needed to pay for it, without loans and leases.
Article 13 is something new this year. An attempt to create out of the general fund surplus, and expendable trust fund that can be used to fund plowing and winter maintenance beyond what is in the budget. A good idea as we saw last year.
The next 7 warrant articles are our Road paving articles. We actually applaude the budget committee and selectmen for breaking out each road this year into separate warrant articles. This should be fun... Leeetts geeeet reaaddddyyyy to ruuuuuummmmmmbbbbbllllllleeeeeeee!
Article 21 is the further development of the East Road Rec area! You've gotta be kidding me! Can our rec dept. take a break from shaking down the taxpayers for one friggin year? First there was the $400,000 to buy the damn land, then there was the study, then the site work done to date, now just another $80,000 friggin dollars, and we can have landscaping and walking paths! HELL NO! NOT THIS YEAR!
Recreation Cap reserve? Again HELL NO! NOT THIS YEAR! What the hell are you going to buy now?
Next we have the Woodlock Park Cap Reserve! NOT THIS YEAR! WE ARE BROKE, GET IT?
Next we have a generator for town hall. Well if the chief got one, then the town hall needs one, what the hell for? NOT THIS YEAR! People gt this through your heads, money is tight, quit asking for more!
Those damn mosquitos are going to cost us another $46,000, guess we can't avoid that one can we.
$35,000 for siding to the kimball house? Can't this wait?
Articles 27, 28, 29, and 30 all have to do with cable TV and shoudl be paid for out of the Cable Cap Reserve, which is funded by the franchise fee.
Those are the important articles, lets hear your thoughts?
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 229 of 229Dear Mr. Stupid with "Why is the sky blue" questions. It is obvious to everybody you need to read every blog post for the last thee years and stop wasting everyones time looking for answers already in the public record.
As for new legal suits against Atkinson officials, yes they are comming.
As for the details, that is for us to know and you to find out. BUT!!! If you paid attention to how you harm town citizens you would already know.
Watch your mailbox.
How ironic that Ms. Grant is defending the right to vote on whether or not a person has the right to marry! And by the way, wasn't our state rep MODERATING the meeting? Seems to me concerned residents had ample opportunity to voice their opinion and let Concord know where they stand on this issue.
As for the details, that is for us to know and you to find out. BUT!!! If you paid attention to how you harm town citizens you would already know.
Watch your mailbox.
I see you've taken your delusional drugs again today. How nice for you. I have no fear of any lawsuits hitting my mailbox. I'm well aware of the previous lawsuits against Phil and Frank and I know that the one thrown out of Federal is going to the state level. Someone said we need a new form of government. Why can't you answer the simple question as to why and what form or is it too difficult for you to wrap your delusional mind around?
Jack Other New Guy, thinks his new strategy to deal with the bog problem can work. He is delusional. Jack doesn't understand how free speech works.
Dictators for centuries have tried to undermine free speech.
Give an "A" for effort but an "F" for effectiveness.
Jack, please run against Fred for selectman. Then voters can choose between two losers. Write-in candidate, Mickey Mouse, is our next sitting selectman.
Jack Sapia forgot he is sued in Superior Court lawsuit. Jack. Take off the pyramid triangle from your head. It aint working.
I'm not Jack or Phil or Frank or anyone else who has or is about to be sued. All I'm trying to do is to get an answer to my question. Someone put out a blanket statement that our form of government is broken and we need a new one. Can someone answer why and what form? Anyone?
Yawn...
The ground-swell to fix our government and our country must begin with individual citizens who give a damn working on the town level.
Individuals taxpayers all over the country are working to clean up their own town mess. This action will resonate all the way up to the national level.
Failure to win at the local level will result in a continuation of this dark age of repression and economic failure.
The adventure we call "America" can fail if we citizens abdicate our responsibility to manage our "officials" and their greedy spending and incompetent decision making.
That's a nice diatribe, but it lacks specifics and is just more blanket statements. What "greedy spending and incompetent decision making" are you referring to and how does that relate to our existing form of town government? Do you think we'd be better off with a mayor instead of a board of selectmen? I think that would concentrate power when the poster who said we needed a new form of government was looking to disperse power.
The Legislature does NOT favor the two step SB2 process therefore they know it is disruptive but have chosen to retain MOST of the true authority within the single session format ie. the first session of our 2 part process.
complete separation of departments.
establish guidelines for elderly services so that they are distributed fairly.
accountability and transparency of data to support budgets.
Funny how the "blanket statement" folks are the same people who boast with glee about more lawsuits coming the town's way. I am glad the voters approved a warrant article last year that if a lawsuit against the town is deemed frivolous, the Town must countersue to recover the costs.
Your argument about out of control spending is weakened with the way you threaten more lawsuits with your condescending wink and nod. You don't give a shit about our town. All you care about is YOUR taxes. And given your proclivity towards lawsuits, even that is in question.
Crawl back into the hole you crawled out of.
jmho
I see. So this isn't really about our form of government at all, it's about Phil and the PD & EA.
Would someone in-the-know about the reputed three new lawsuits give the rest of us some idea of the specifics alleged in these actions and the individuals named?
Anon 1:27,
Exactly! It doesn't matter what the topic of discussion is. Eventually that's what it focuses on.
Town is not perfect, but the way some of the people are portrayed here is laughable. And given the showing, or lack thereof, at deliberative session, exposes the bloggers here as nothing more than impotent windbags.
LOL!!!
To 2/3 9:38
How were your rights denied?
You and your wife CHOSE not to attend Deliberative Session and you CHOSE not to be heard.
Next year, have your wife use a vacation or personal day (or call in sick). You can get a babysitter.
But don't whine about outcomes from the governing process you CHOSE not to participate in.
You said:
"Some people just think they're better than others and that their opinions are the only ones that should count."
You miss the point of Deliberative Session. It is not that a vote went my way or your way. It went the way favored by the majority of those who bothered to attend... in you words, "the only ones that should count".
Show up to Deliberative Session yourself, or cede power to those who do attend. Your choice.
Oh let him believe his civil rights were somehow violated. He's scrapping around for a lawsuit. Diapers and baby formula are expensive after all.
can't you smell the shit even when it's on your sneaker?
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