District will not charge Town for meeting
To little Bacon, to late, at last nights selectmen meeting, June 29, 2015 @ 6:30 P.M., it was stated that there will be no charge for the scheduled special Town meeting to be held at 7:00 P.M. on July 14, 2015 for which there will be one article, transfer of funds. A special Town meeting was originally voted to take place on July 27, 2015 to transfer funds, again, had to be moved up to July 14 to comply with the law and the wishes of the DOR. State law says transfers the BOS need to make happen have to take place in the last 60 days of the current fiscal year and in the first 2 weeks of the new fiscal year, so the originally planned special Town meeting of July 27 apparently did not meet that legal requirement. The special Town meeting on July 27 will still be scheduled in case anyone wishes to bring forward any citizens petitions. If there are none brought forward, there will be no meeting.
The board also was asked by the Town accountant to make an amended vote on the transfers the select board can make because of "new" numbers now available. Apparently at the last meeting, the numbers presented were a little off. What was stated by the Town accountant is there were some accounts that were now under the 5 thousand dollar limit for selectmen to be able to transfer. You can be the judge if that passes the "smell test".
The $85,000.00 playground fund issue will be carried forward while the board waits on the final state budget. The OPM along with some members of the elementary school building committee made a presentation and informed the selectmen that after a meeting with MSBA in November, that is expected to happen November 18, 2015, the board will have 120 days from that point to get a positive Town vote for funding the new school. According to the OPM, if that vote fails, the project will be removed from MSBA agenda and the Town would have to start over. One would think that even if the Town had to start over, the work and material already completed could still be used, but we are talking about Massachusetts state government, so I would not bet on that.
Jeff Bennett
Will Templeton's bond rating be restored by the time the elementary school project goes for a vote?
ReplyDeleteHow can a town without a bond rating vote on a project that will cost about 50 million dollars give or take?
How is it legal to put a question before the voters to borrow money when the town can't borrow any money?
How does that work?
Now don't you think our Board of Selectmen members would have thought of that. Chairman Columbus has spent enough time on the School Committee, so you would think he could see this problem coming. Some people believe in karma, so this could be payback for the School taking money from the Town, when the Town needed it so badly.As some say, what goes around, comes around. Bev.
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