| 5/9/2013 7:48:00 AM Respect for efforts to improve Templeton To the Editor: 5/9/2013 |
| David Smart Templeton |
To the Editor:
I wish to thank all voters for their participation and I appreciate their involvement in our town’s process called a democracy. I would like to pledge my commitment to my community and town’s well-being as a concerned longtime resident. I feel deeply about many past practices that were not of a normal process. I will continue the work to expose wrongdoings and self interests in the past.
The people, who willingly bypass and violate the process, have no regards for fairness to the town and will be a focus of the town’s business in the future and will be never allowed in decisions made in the future.
As a town, the functions are to all be integral and never set as a private or singular department. Only one board can derive a total package and budget process and account for financial responsibility to all town taxpayers and the town’s well-being.
I wish to thank all voters for their participation and I appreciate their involvement in our town’s process called a democracy. I would like to pledge my commitment to my community and town’s well-being as a concerned longtime resident. I feel deeply about many past practices that were not of a normal process. I will continue the work to expose wrongdoings and self interests in the past.
The people, who willingly bypass and violate the process, have no regards for fairness to the town and will be a focus of the town’s business in the future and will be never allowed in decisions made in the future.
As a town, the functions are to all be integral and never set as a private or singular department. Only one board can derive a total package and budget process and account for financial responsibility to all town taxpayers and the town’s well-being.
As I’m sure you know, in the past, positions of power in Templeton have been abused and open for self-serving interests. Templeton has had to learn the hard way, what the cost of not wanting to be involved is. To many, I would always say that’s why we elected them to that stuff. I’m too busy and you’re made a fool of if things aren’t good.
Recently, we have found that people in charge may or may not work as we thought they would or said they would. Always guided by a former leader for their direction and advised poorly defined an elected leader no longer wanted. People in power choose to cover and barricade, twist, and tangle the truth to fit their agenda for them and their powerful leader.
Templeton voters can never be lulled into a sense of everything’s fine, just stay out of it mentality. You can’t change it, and it’s a so what, who cares attitudes. We would be in a very bad place and in a short time it would cripple our town.
Until Templeton knows the full impact of all departments’ doings, Templeton will be in jeopardy without effective oversight. The BOS is the highest oversight Templeton has and needs to always have the control needed to properly function all town business.
We need all law advice and proper procedures mandated by state and federal law for the safety and well-being of all people in Templeton. When safety and health concerns arise, a swift conclusion must be acted on.
As important the reliability and efficiency of the electrical grid system, it is never above and beyond the public safety and well-being. Any electrical generation should always be done with and by our select board to have oversight and be integral with input so all consideration has been addressed and not just financial.
Going forward, Templeton needs to find a balanced approach to be an all-in-one united for Templeton. No longer can Templeton be pitted one department against the other. If one has and one needs, an all-share approach needs to take place. As a pilot payment gets to a formulation, only a full evaluation for assets and value of all will be a basis for the figure that it should be.
When a department spends money to protect itself legally from the town it’s owned by, something’s wrong. All departments need to be completely open and monitored by the BOS and all activities on behalf of the town’s interests should never be left to only one department, or only one signature.
In many ways, in the past, this practice has made Templeton vulnerable to illegal actions and will have consequences in the future.
I applaud and respect any and all efforts by those who work to better Templeton and its future. I thank all elected officials who also donate their time. I appreciate our new selectman and their willingness to step up for the town. Templeton has started the healing process.
David Smart
Templeton
This is very well written, and very true. I hope this makes a few people squirm in their seats. I think the worst thing a elected person can do is, betray the the people who had the faith in them, to vote them into office in the first place. When some people have been in a position for too long, they seem to loose the reason they are there in the first place. The role of commissioner or chairman, in my opinion, should be to work with a committee, and the town representatives, to help meet each others needs. I have not seen that done at the Light and Water or the School Board, for many years. What is the point of having a School Committee chairman, or Light and Water Commissioners, if they loose their objectivity? There needs to be a change in the Light and Water Commissioners, and School Committee. In time the people in this town will see this. Once the rate payers for the light and water come to the realization that they are being taken advantage of, their attitude will change. It just will take time. This is my opinion, Bev.
ReplyDeleteSo what happened at the light/water meeting this week?
ReplyDeleteTom i will be bloging about this soon! audio will be available! No help for sewer issue was offered and still same stance after information given about doing every thing sewer could. Water service charge increase 100% from 28 to 56. can't say we didn't warn you. need time to write the blog on complete meeting. Including the 1500. to jump start the ford escape hybrid. Why would they know about anything electrical?
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Found another interesting invoice from the light department in the vendor warrant this morning. AN ADDITIONAL $7,139.20 spent on legal research for Citizens petitions. I'll post as a blog a little later.
ReplyDeleteBest entry on a legal invoice EVER:
03/17/13 Call Social Law Library to renew book that Attorney Moore has checked out and get overdue fee waived. 0.20 hours
At $270/hour .20 hours = $54 dollars.
They could have purchased a copy of Town Meeting Times for that price. How much was the overdue fee?
What the hell is going on over at Light and Water?
The quality of my service hasn't doubled, why has the fee doubled?
This is how you "manage" like a business? Which business model? Enron?
When I got to the meeting, it was so hot in there, I thought I was in Florida. Dam, I got there late and missed the fireworks. The fuse on one of our commissioners was short, so fire works went off early. Hope we have some left for July 4th. when Jeff gets home. Bev.
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