The Selectmen's Meeting 12/14/05
The meeting started with the usual pontification by Chairman Ken O’Brien and supporting babble from Sharon Cutler. Nothing new there.
The big news at the beginning of the meeting was that Karen O’Brien had resigned from the Parks Department. The Board quickly filled that vacancy. Bob Duplin got the nod without any discussion…do these people read minds?? We never got the reasoning. Our understanding is that public issues should be discussed publicly. Do the Selectmen deliberate in private prior to their meetings??? In violation of the “Open Meeting Law”??? You bet they do, all the time.
Not much sense to having these Bozos on cable TV if they make their decisions in private and “inform” the taxpayers after the fact.
It was a hoot to listen the questions of the Parks Department from Sharon Cutler regarding the fencing of Memorial Field. She is truly clueless and obviously not a baseball fan. Her veiled reference to the baseball league taking over Memorial Field proved her ignorance of sports programs in Mendon. Sharon, believe it or not, baseball has been around longer than you. Get over it.
Ken O’Brien’s only interest was in getting the bid process of finishing the back fields turned over to the Selectmen. Ken must have some buddies in the landscaping business. The next thing we will hear from Cutler and O’Brien is that the Park Commissioners are up to something and just like the last time the youth of Mendon will suffer from the pathetic politics that control our future. Too Bad.
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It is amazing to me that the Selectmen continue to overstep their authority and attempt to influence every decision in town most recently the fence proposal at Memorial Field. The Parks Dept is responsible for making decisions regarding Memorial Field and despite the Selectmen's pleas for people to come forward and oppose the fence on both the radio and cable no one but themselves stepped up to speak in opposition to the fence. This is because the fence makes sense something they seem to lack these days. When the Parks Dept mentioned they would decide on the fence at a later date the Selectmen, took it upon themselves before Parks had even decided on the subject, to spend tax dollars on town council to try and find a loop hole to stop the fence before it was even voted on by the Parks Dept. This is gross abuse of their office to forward their own personal opinions and using our tax dollars to do it. Any other Department in town wishing to use Town Counsel must get the OK from the Selectmen and are usually told no, due to expense, yet they seem to have unlimited access to town counsel for any little agenda they want to forward, who is approving their requests? Who authorized them spending money on town council opposing the fence when it hasn't even been decided on yet? Is this all they have to do these days? Time to get them out of there, the soooner the better.
We couldn't agree with you more. Not only are they nearly completely ignorant of the scope of their power, they refuse to believe it even when it's pointed out to them.
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