I have been struggling with how to describe Mr Walker's appearance and his reception at the Select Board meeting last night. I have decided that you can watch it on DCTV if you are interested. Schedule link here
I have posted about the lack of trust that some residents have in our current leadership here.
Both Representative Quinn and Mr Walker came with the same message, Implement the DOR recommendations from last July. I think that the town is tired of the excuses from our leadership. Six months have passed since the DOR issued their report and our town is in dire financial straits. Why are we still looking into these things, not already finished, or at least well on our way. It appears to me that our leadership has probably spent more time this week working on rebuttals to those who appear before them than in trying to solve our town's fiscal woes. Some will require action with collective bargaining units. Why hasn't that started? If the re-energized personnel board is going to do this, where are they and what is the direction they have been given? So many questions and so few answers, so little leadership.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Speaking truth to power
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Vote Bill the savior of the Dartmouth, never done it but sure believes he can do it better! Please By the way, where have all the posters gone, it appears that without Barry and Maryann Bill your site is quite quiet, do you get tired posting to yourself?
Kathleen, You're true colors are showing. Esp. at that last SB mtg. The citizen of Dartmouth will save Dartmouth! Bring back civility!
Kathleen, All I can say is how can Bill not do better? Civility alone makes him better qualified, regardless of everything else he can bring to the table.
"What I heard" was you say "we are doing this", Natalie saying "we shouldn't do this", and Ed I., 2 meetings ago, saying "we aren't doing this". All referring to the same issue of personal contracts. This is exactly the kind of thing that breeds the mistrust and lack of confidence you blame the CFRG for. Rep. Quinn told you the same thing the CFRG told you. Follow the DOR recommendations and look at salaries since they directly relate to projected future costs. Is Rep. Quinn wrong too? Although there was an attempt to discredit him as well, it was done in a much more civil way. Stop wasting money we can't afford on lawsuits we can't win. "The money follows the child." If the town spent as much time working on the issues as it did trying to discredit information it doesn't want to hear, we would be much better off. I do know one thing, Bill will not be wasting his time doing that!
After seeing Quinn give his talk at SB mtg. he said we should stop pointing the finger & blaming others. Later when Mr. Walker got up, Kathleen McClean started pointing her finger at him and yelling! Unbelievable!
The way our current leadership has handled themselves when challenged is absurd. To act in such a way is an embarrassment to our town. There is clearly a lack of civility and therefore a lack of respect toward our fellow residents. We can't forget that we are all in this together! It is time to take the chip off of your shoulder, Kathleen, and get back to the basic need for your position... to govern FOR the people.
One must admire youthful hegemony. Crush the proletariat so to improve imperialist position.
Zen say it is better to fall on ones sword than defend a dishonor...
The job of running the town is to big for part time executives. I restate my position that we need to adopt a city type of government. We have to many executives in the town, including moderator. He gets to appoint the personnel board ? . This is redicules, it should be appointed by the executive branch of government. We also need to move to one fire department for the town, and have one general tax.
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