As you can see from this e-mail, it appears that by his own admission, General Manager John Driscoll has involved himself in town politics when his real job is managing Templeton Light & Water. Under MGL chapter 164, section 56 "the manager shall at anytime when required, make a statement of his doings, business, receipts, disbursements, balances and indebtedness of the town in his department." that is a partial entry of the above referenced MGL. The advisory Board according to state law and Templeton by-law is suppose to have access to all things financial of any entity in town. Selectmen Virginia Wilder certainly should be aware of this as she served on advisory for a number of years alongside Dan Keeney. It is strange how Ms. Wilder would characterize a citizens petition "absurd" considering these two emails and the fact that so many citizens have spoken of the lack of information coming from or being provided from the light & water commissioners. Perhaps too much time spent on Baldwinville Road and not enough time spent in the selectman's office. Taxpayers need to have access to all financial information from ALL Templeton departments in order to make informed decisions at town meeting but how can they do this if some of their elected officials fail to provide this information. Hopefully that petition got every ones attention and we will all get on the page of being open and honest with the taxpayers, they do pay the bills!
Jeffrey Bennett
From: "J Driscoll" <jdriscoll@templetonlight.com>
To: "MA Advisory Board Templeton" <templetonadvisoryboard@gmail.com>
Cc: "Town Coordinator" <towncoordinator@templeton1.org>, "Chris Stewart"
@hotmail.com>, gwvwtemple@aol.com, "patrick mullins 2012" <patrick.mullins.2012@gmail.com>, jpb01468@comcast.net, "Kate Myers" <kmyers@templeton1.org>, snowfighter4@verizon.net, "Joel Thompson" <royalcadet@comcast.net>, "Mary Lang" <mlang@net1plus.com>, "Darren Elwell" <darren.charles.elwell@gmail.com>, "Joseph Boyd"
Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 6:35:58 AM
Subject: RE: Templeton Water budget for FY14
Will,
I apologize for not meeting the anticipated deadline. If you have been reading the newspaper at all, I think you can appreciate that I have had to focus my efforts in other areas as of late. There are a lot of things moving at light speed and I am attempting to get caught up.
You'll notice by the PDF form that the Water Plant's anticipated (not yet voted on) water budget for FY14 is already broken down into several different categories; it would be helpful to me if you could tell me which particular budget items that you would like me to expand on. Unlike in past years, I cannot locate a Microsfot Excel Template file which all of this information would fit into nicely. If someone has that available, please forward it to me.
And this is not as simple as just e-mailing you an attachment. It is important that I get the bottom-line budget figure of $1.407M to agree on the PDF Document and then on the Excel one, beacuse that is what my proposed dollar amount for the FY14 water budget is. All of the data (for whatever reason) has been historically organized differently on the Water Commission copy than on the Town copy whcih goes to Town Meeting. Maybe that is something that should change. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Templeton Water has been asked directly by Advisory for a budget breakdown that is more detailed than the one that I am to present at my own Water Commission.
What is the date of the next Advisory meeting?
John
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