When the Selectmen met April 7th to establish their goals and objectives for this year, the takeaways that we got were as follows:
- we need more employees
- we need to pay our employees more money
- the trust funds should be stripped with the money removed going towards infrastructure
Demonstrating an unwillingness to listen and respond to the voters message with amended plans, the Selectmen’s comments primarily focused on the voters - who overwhelmingly turned down the Operating budget. The following Selectmen's comments were met with shared enthusiasm among themselves.
- need to do a better job selling it
- do better job on presentation
- need to educate the public
It was telling that most of the meeting was dedicated to Department Heads requests for additional resources, that there was no Public Comment period on the agenda and