Selectmen meeting, Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Residents of Laurel View Road were told there is no real help available from Selectmen.
Action on Town excavator was put off until the next meeting. BOS voted to agree and support the choice of the elementary school building committee. Some members of the BOS appeared a little confused on what exactly they were voting on, even the ones who were at the previous nights meeting of TESBC. Town administrator announced there will be training on work place behavior to include things like sexual harassment, Insurance bids showed the same coverage offered by MIIA but from a different group and a lower cost in the 60 thousand dollar range. Interim Town Administrator agreed to stay another year and signed a contract saying as much.
With the estimate of 50 million dollars for the school and Town share in the 22 million dollar range, the affect on the tax rate is sure to be the topic of the week, probably the best place to start is the Assessors office where you should be able to get the answer to how much would the current tax rate go up to raise the dollar amount for the school. Keep in mind that back in 2009, the estimate was 32 million and 16 million total cost / town share. I suspect as the process moves forward with more details, the dollar figure could change. Right now this is simply the process to get to the point where the question of town support will be determined.
Jeff Bennett
If we are talking about going into debt for compulsory education the man who sheds some much appreciated light on this subject is John Taylor Gatto. In his opus The Underground History of American Education Gatto gives the history on how the American mind has been controlled since the large foundations got control of education way back when. Templeton Times gives you the entire book or at least what has been printed on archive.org. in easy installments on a daily basis. The avid reader may wish to buy his own copy or read ahead on archive.org.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the residents of Laurel View Rd can submit a citizens petition for the town to take over their roads. I think that was done for Cook Pond Estates.
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