- Help support Your Fire Fighters and EMTs, Monday November 28 @6:30 Pm. Thank You!SUPPORT!!!ReplyDelete
Templeton Fire Department
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Due to recent town budget shortfalls , It is being recommended to remove the Chief and Deputy Chief of the department, and replace them with a Public Safety administrator ( The police Chief). living in town all my live and after 36+ years service to the town as a Fire Fighter, EMT-B. Working my way up through the ranks, Lieutenant, Captain, Deputy Chief and now the Acting Chief of the department. I have given over 110% to the towns people, as most all of us do in public safety. Missing holidays, weddings, cookouts, birthdays! I have Seen men, women, children, friends and family hurt, sick and injured, saving many and loosing many. I feel betrayed, let down, stabbed in the back. The Fire dept. and equipment is in a deplorable state. Not from lack of management skills, but a lack of the required funding. Removing 30% of the budget in past years, Keeping old equipment and having no funds to repair it is a major disaster waiting to happen. Miss management at a higher level than the department should not be placed on the solder in the trenches! Help support Your Fire Fighters and EMTs, Monday November 28 @6:30 Pm. Thank You!
Everyone have a safe and wonderful holiday.
Acting Chief
Denis Hamel - Do,
You point out the problem exactly. Our BOS favors Short term savings that will actually over time cost us more.
How many cities or town have a "Public safety administrator" and dont have a Police Chief, Fire Chief. Or they will create this position, then pile on responsibilities to Captains who will get raises to the point of being a Chief because they are doing the work.........1 Town employee added to the bureaucracy is all we'll get............
How much could the excess $300k we've spent on audits have helpedReplyDelete
My Name is Paul H Cosentino. I started this Blog in 2011 because of what I believe to be wrongdoings in town government. This Blog is to keep the citizens of Templeton informed. It is also for the citizens of Templeton to post their comments and concerns.
So we were in a hole in May, so what did Markel do? Give out raises there was no money for. These raises were not biased on any schedule, and were on top of raises the year before. Ho ho ho ! Did he think he was Santa coming early ? How did our selectmen handle these problems, after it was explained and shown to them on a power point presentation, (can't be more clear than that) what they should do to help, and not make things any worse. Stop all projects was one suggestion. Stop hiring and extra spending was another. Did they do any of these things ?? No !! Why should they listen to people who were appointed, after all, they were elected ! So now we still have a shortfall in a couple of accounts that we still have to cover left over from our Annual Town Meeting in May, so why would our "superior Board" sign a contract with the Collins Institute for 14.000. plus expenses when the people at the ATM approved 8,500. ?? I know you probably have heard this before, but I am so sick of this kind of behavior ! Alan must be close to retirement age, so is Bud. Why do any of our "superior board" think Bud could do Alan's job ? It will be tricky to replace Alan as it is. He knows where all the bodies are buried and that is the truth. He has done right by the people of our town and by the hundreds of people buried here. When people are under the most stress that they will have in their life, after loosing a loved one, Bud is the steady hand that guides them through the part no one thinks about. Do we have a place to bury them, is there room, can we have a funeral on a Saturday, what about in the winter ? He has the answers and the temperament, he also does not need this grief. I suggest the "superior board" look at cutting back the hours of our Town Hall. If we as a town can not afford a full time operation, make it three days a week. This is what will need to happen anyway because we can not afford anything else. Bev.
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