The Select Board is down to the wire for approving override questions in time for the April 1 election. Questions must be presented to the Town Clerk no less than 35 days before the vote. That makes Tuesday Feb 26th the deadline. So I am assuming that the Select Board will have to meet and approve the override questions this week in order to have time to have them vetted by the legal department and submitted to the Clerk on time.
One additional note on last Thursday's Select Board meeting. At the end, the Budget Director and Executive Administrator were discussing the hiring of additional personnel with the funds provided via an override. Their spin on the matter was that since these positions were once staffed, but are not now, the added people are not actually an increase. HUH, WHA..HUH? Unfortunately, the logic, or illogic, of their position on these additional salaries and benefits was not challenged. I don't know if it was because the meeting was breaking up or if the Select Board was buying the argument. If this is revisited in the future, I hope that any hiring is carefully considered since employee costs are the bulk of the so-called fixed costs that are at the root of our problem.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Override question deadline
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Every single day I learn some new disturbing tidbit about the efforts (or lack thereof) to manage our town efficiently. Just heard through the grapevine that Dartmouth DPW spent enormous sums of money on a new top-of-the-line lawn mower, which their own staff says is unnecessary. Are you kidding me? I'm tightening my belt because the economy is in the toilet, and DPW is spending like a druken sailor. I'm just disgusted with it all....
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