Does anyone know what this "ANNOUNCEMENT" may be ?

4a. Department of Conservation and Recreation

I predict that Bruce will announce the following:

After spending MORE of the taxpayer's money on my bruised ego, I will be including Westfield and Civil Service for the Police Chief as non-binding articles on the April ballot. I realize that most of the citizens in this town are against this, but DAMMIT, I am the Chairman of Selectmen and what I say goes!

If that's the case (that there'll be an announcement adding the non-binding questions, Articles 2 & 5) to the April ballot, after ALL the talk of HOW MUCH they cared about seniors (and "we" didn't)..as well as the Chief/Civil Service question..How much more DELAY of real action will this add?? The Legislative branch (voters at TM) of our Town Government is being ignored..

ARTICLE 2
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

Section  2 - 1               Town Meeting

The legislative powers of the town shall continue to be exercised by a town meeting open to all voters.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AT-E6 … dmNo&hl=en

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TAKEBACKWAREHAM
April 6, 2010

According to the letter from Asst. DA Mary Lee, in order to "remedy" the open meeting law violation the BoS must "acknowledge at a properly posted open session that this office has found that it [BoS] violated the Open Meeting Law through an improper executive session on May 26 and June 2, 2009."

I missed last Tuesday's, so maybe they "acknowledged" it then. If not, they should be discussing it tonight although I don't see it on the agenda.

I do see here the appointment to the Charter Review Committee. I guess I missed that interview. 

The section on the agenda that reads "Announcements" also includes any public announcements submitted by local organizations etc.  If you are talking about the BIG announcement that Bruce said he would be making, that could come under the "other town business" portion. Either way, it should be interesting TV viewing.

I understand the new TA is already working. I thought they only made a motion and then voted to "begin" negotiations. Did they publicly appoint him at last Tuesday's meeting? I must have missed that. Do we know what salary they decided on? Did Bruce include that clause about no more DUIs or there would be consequences? I seem to remember him saying that at a previous meeting.

AT the last meeting Bruce said he MAY have an announcement this week. It could be the new TA has signed his contract, or as Larry suggested he could announce Westfield and the police chief are going on the ballot. My favorite would be that he is not going to run. He also said he was taking all of Jan off. Maybe he has health issues; maybe he actually got a job somewhere and is moving out of town.

It was sarcasm all right!! I've never been invited to Ed's house!! Er, I mean to a public CRC meeting.

So, does this mean that all town committees can do their own interviews and then have the BoS rubber stamp that person's appointment? I must have missed that in the charter/by-laws. (Yep, More sarcasm in case the tin foil hatters want to have another go at me during next Sunday's chat!!)

When the minutes of those xsessions get posted, will you get them up here for all to read P-Span? Part of the "remedy" required by the DA's office is that the minutes of the May 26 and June 2 xsessions must be "made public records."

Thanks for your diligence in getting important vid. clips and documents posted on this website. An educated electorate will make the right choices in the voting booth come April.

Isn't Boozy's big premiere tonight?

PREDICTION: Oh what does my crystal ball (which is way bigger than Bobo's) predict?  My crystal ball predicts that Boozy will make a big weepy mea culpa - "I'm sorry Wareham!  Sorry for not telling you of my failings and boozyness!  Then the selectmen will hug him and Bobo like a good lackey will rally around him and they'll all whine about how evil the bloggers are for talking about his boozyness.

We'll all be painted out as vile power elite bastards for not wanting someone asked to step down from a job and has a history of Boozy problems running the town.

Pull up your boots, the bullshit will get piled up high and deep tonight!

Hey, is the meeting over already?

So what the hell was Brucey's announcement?

last week was his statement he had an announcement for this week..

this weeks announcement someone stole his garbage today.....

timeline!!!

I noticed that when they introduced Boozy he and the selectmen didn't acknowledge his history of boozyness and correct me if I'm wrong because I flipped the channel but I assume the meeting ended without an acknowledgment either.

Cronie had some things to get off his chest about the Affordable Housing Trust (which led to some interesting facts)...seems they are STILL without a fifth trustee..I think they said 15K was disbursed from it already (I think ALL before ANY Trustees were appointed)..and Dick Heaton's bill is/was in excess of 80K..We'll have to check the vid..short meeting, should be a quick turnaround..Maybe by Noon tomorrow? Yeah, Brucey's garbage..he all but blamed the "hatebloggers" for doing it..Maybe we should let him appoint a Chief of Police...he's got the case all figured out..who needs evidence? TOOL.. (and No, I'm not Bobo)

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TAKEBACKWAREHAM
April 6, 2010

Last edited by P-SPAN (2009-12-15 21:08:52)

We don't have to see him for over a month though.  That is kind of nice...

I have no idea.

One topic that is not getting any play is the comments by John Cronan and the reply by Jane Donahue. Cronan brought up the issue of Dick Heaton's bill for consulting on Westfield. The total is 84,000. That is above what is available in the Trust according to the rules. However, Jane said there is a difference between admin fees and consulting fees. Interesting conversation! Dick Heaton was hired as a consultant to consult on the Westfield project and prepare the presentation for Town Meeting. Jane is trying to "classify" part of his fees as administrative to circumvent the rules. Did anyone else find this a bit sneaky? I know that someone is already checking on the rules, but I'm guessing this is another attempt to sneak one past the citizens of Wareham.

I am not sure but wouldn't something of that cost have to go out to bid, not be given to a friend of the BOS.