Preserve Middlebury
Tom Gormley discusses the budget with video clips and letters.
Please watch
Public Access Channel 21
on Saturday September 27 starting at 8:00PM to see Tom explain the budget.
Please let your friends and neighbors know about this and ask them to support the budget on Tuesday.
Please watch
Public Access Channel 21
on Saturday September 27 starting at 8:00PM to see Tom explain the budget.
Please let your friends and neighbors know about this and ask them to support the budget on Tuesday.
Preserve Middlebury
Posts
3 comments:
is the money that will be received from that auction be put in budget or some slush fund ?
Please give Tom Gormley the credit for ending the "slush funds" that were used by Doctor St. John for the previous 22 years.
Tom's budgets and accounts are extremely transparent. You bitched and moaned about a "shell game" as things were untangled by Michael Belden. But now the light shows clearly on the revenues and expenses that are exposed and not hidden away like they were only two years ago.
Why not give Tom the credit for that?
Revenues are itemized. Expenses are itemized. The money is traceable now. The budget pages linked to OurMoneyPit actually illustrate this pretty clearly. I encourage you to look at the budget and pay attention to the transparency.
Good job Tom Gormley.
A perfect example is the Sewer Commission budget. Now that this budget is where it belongs, exclusively under the auspices of the Sewer Commission AND the sewer users, it can be far less easily used to hide expenses. I have it on good authority from someone who regulary attends WPCA meetings that Ed used to use this budget as a place to make purchases "out of the limelight", so to speak. And why, a couple of years ago, did Ed make the WPCA purchase two brand-new Chevy Silverado pickups for the two WPCA employees, when these trucks, while useful, do not wholly meet the needs of the employees. I have heard that they often have to go back to Public Works and "borrow" back one of their old vehicles, which has a crane on the back. Pat, where were you then? The two employees at Public Works who now use the old WPCA vehicles probably would have found more use from the 2 trucks that WPCA was "forced" to purchase by the then First Selectman. I also would have to question whether the WPCA recieved fair market value compensation back from Public Works for the two vehicles they recieved from the WPCA. I have heard that was not the case. Pat, stop being a baby. Take a look at where the real issues have been over the years. Stop being Ed's mouthpiece, and stop crying because you felt the FD slighted you over your help with the radio grant. For a supposedly learned man in his sixties, you behave worse than a little child, throwing a big tantrum. I've said it here before, and I'll say it again. If Middlebury is too expensive for you, sell your house and move down South, where the cost of living is lower. Even in this depressed market, you could still get a nice chunk of change for that place on White Avenue. And not only that, but you could ride all year..........So, I, and many of your neighbors, say "Get Out!!!!!"
Post a Comment