Ham, great recap, but I will offer one edit. The vote on Westfield was not further study it was indefinite postponement. The difference is that this time the study $hit is over.

WOO HOO!!!

PShooter
TAKEBACKWAREHAM

I CANT TELL YOU ONE THING CRONIN AND BRUCEY IN APRIL THE CHANGE HAS BEGUN. YOU LOST ALL OF YOUR ARTICLES. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND WILL SPEAK IN APRIL.

A FEW FOOTNOTES:

ANDREA - THERE WAS NO CONFUSION IN THE VOTE, SORRY YOU DIDNT GET YOUR WAY

TOOTSIE RUSSELL - HOW DID YOU LET SOMEONE ELSE DO YOUR JOB AND LET THE MTG VOTERS KNOW IT WAS 10

BRENDA - THE PEOPLE SPOKE, DONT THROW A FIT AND TRY TO DISSOLVE TM

BRUCEY - YOU CAN PUT YOU HEAD IN YOUR HANDS ALL YOU WANT BUT THE NIGHT WILL NOT CHANGE

MODERATER - YOUR A DISGRACE, CANT WAIT TILL YOUR UP FOR REELECTION, NO SPEECHES DURING A RECOUNT!

BOBO - CANT WAIT FOR YOU SPIN, SPIN, SPIN

congrats to all for a great job. Well Done. On to April.

No Confidence. The town let the "leader's" know what's up. As great as it was to have all our efforts and research pay off, watching the way everyone treated "them" was pure sweetness. They worked hard to earn our incivility. Sorry gang, the Town spoke. We're sick of your crap. Sweet, sweet music. This is our Town!

Thank you all. Now one more night, charity drives, and on to April. 

Celebrate

PShooter
TAKEBACKWAREHAM

Last edited by PShooter (2009-10-26 23:13:28)

andrea smith... nice try but NO THANKS....

And another thing....
If you want to see why we should keep Town Meeting. Tonight was a great example. Great turnout. Spirited "discussions." Again, the problem is the "leadership." Brenda, you are such an ASS! Dissolve TM? We can't get you SelectBozo's outta here fast enough. Your a (bad) joke. Janey, Brucey, Mr. Moderator, all of you. "How you like me now?"

You won't wipe this smile from my face for awhile...My Town Rocks!

PShooter
TAKEBACKWAREHAM

Let's celebrate, people, but also let's not be complacent.  Everyone please be there tommorrow night front and center.  They will no doubt try to pull out a trick or two to try and nullify their defeat tonight.  Be there to vote their tricks down.

We won this round, but the battle isn't over yet.

Tonight was a referendum of sorts: we the citizens will no longer tolerate the incompetence of our current BOS!!..I guesss Jane was right when she told someone at citizen's participation that Town Meeting attendeees usually vote opposite of the Selectscum..how prophetic!!!

I agree with Molly that our outrage cannot be the only thing that drives our votes.  I am only sorry that Selectman Savaugeau rushed through the reading of something on the screen that did not resemble the budget explanation, and we fell for it before we knew what was happening (one of his favorite strategies in concert with the Moderator). A budget that absorbed an additional $599,000 cut deserved a lot of discussion.  How could this not affect services, as we were told?  Leaving positions empty definitely affects us.  Police, library, school, planner, etc. Of course, some people, I understand, are getting stipends above their regular salary?  WOW.   

Our tax dollars were spent on excessive legal fees for various firms, consultants, audits, stipends for a COA interim library director, and other wasteful items, given our lack of services, personnel, funds to maintain our roads and town buildings, and much more.  The budget got no discussion.  Who knows what we just allowed to continue because we couldn't/didn't ask a question.  And, we know that betwen Town Meetings, they do exactly as they please with the budget.  To whomever they please.

Don't give the Fin Com chair a pass on this one. No real discussion on the budget, for the most part. He contributed in large part to wreaking financial havoc on the library.  Is he an expert on housing or library service, police?  Our finances?  It was the school dept who investigated the health insurance trust fund and brought it to light.  And, just because he opposed Westfield and you agree, beware of who you believe going forward.  Has our Fin Com been marginalized?  Why would that be?   Some of the members are looking into legal bills, and that has been great work. Don't let it stop there.  Momma bear and poppa bear.  That's how you address the voters? Give me a break.

voter wrote:

It was the school dept who investigated the health insurance trust fund and brought it to light.

This particular fantasy needs correcting. I will not out the local hero who first detected this crime but Geoff Swett and the school department had absolutely nothing to do with it.

I have to disagree with your Bill. There have been several constructive and feasible alternatives offered. To discount that any of us are not aware of what needs to happen next is as bad as the Selectmen considering us as an afterthought. We may not agree on everything, but many of us aren't in this to spite the Selectmen. I want a bright future for Wareham in the hopes that our children will have something to look forward to instead of mounds of debt and dysfunction. I know I have been in contact with several on this site as well as others who are in this for the right reason and that is to build on this momentum and carry it through to the next level.

That said, we should all be there tonight to finish this town meeting on a high note. It's not about one and done, let's follow it through.

Bill W..glad you didn't pull the plug!
I enjoy screwing with you too much!! So does everyone else!
How do you feel this morning!

I have been voting in Wareham for 30 years now, which when i was first old enough to vote.  I paid no attention at all to what was going on in Wareham until now, BECAUSE THERE IS NO CHOICE, EVERY ONE OF US HAS TO PAY ATTENTION NOW!

BILLW, thanks for this site and all of you folks out there, thanks for you passion because this is the only way I finally got involved, by word of mouth.

Last night was my first TM, which led to my screen name because all i kept saying to the poeple beside me was WHAAAAT!!!!  I sitll cannot get over the actions and comments that came off that stage last night.  it feels great to be part of a solution to the embrassment Wareham has become due to the BOS.

I am eagerly looking forward to attending tonights TM and hopefully can drag a few more people along so they can witness for themselves what a side show this BOS really are.

I do agree with that BillW. While it is a resort town, there is land and opportunity to bring industry to this town. In order to bring in industry and opportunity, you must first make the town viable to this. How do we this? Exactly how we are doing it. The bitching will turn into action once we are in a position to make that happen. Just for the record, several people seem to be making a good living out of cranberries, so I consider that an area of opportunity as well.

I know what Bill W means. He and I know that Wareham is a sanctuary. A tourist Town. A Town that is an escape from the big cities and the opportunity to visit a place that is pristine and pure. Concentrate on improving THAT image, concentrate on developing more tourist friendly attractions, resorts, golf courses(privately owned, PLEASE), and other thing for people to do on vacation.
Plenty of opportunities will open up for young people if the Town is planned and developed properly.
Bill W knows what happens down here in Florida when the greedy carpetbaggers come in, buy up land cheap to flip, run into economic and financing problems and eventually fall on their asses, leaving the Cities and Counties in ruins because they have raped the available sources of income by overdevelopment.
Wareham...a sanctuary.
Bill... you sound like you are feeling OK after your little binder. Too bad I wasn't with you last night to pour down a few.
Thanks for you, Bill.
Thanks for this site, and thanks for being who you are. I know your family history, and I know, like me, your heart breaks everytime you see idiots destroy what your family built.

alittle but hold out until April

No parties yet. We have plenty of work to do.

Yes, Bill..........we need to bring some life back to Wareham.  When I was a child growing up here, Friday nights and Saturday mornings you didn't leave your house if you lived on Rte. 28.  Sunday was another day of the same.  We had no Rte 25, 495 or 195.  There were two ways to get to the cape, thru Wareham to the Bourne Bride or thru Rte 3a to the Sagamore Bridge.  Every store front was occupied.  In Onset at night, they walked 3 & 4 abreast on the sidewalks.  Wareham Center had Newman's two stores, one for men and one for women, a bowling alley, a movie theatre, two grocery markets, three shoe stores, a millinery store, a five and dime store, the N.B Gas & Electric co. where you cold pay your bill or buy appliances two florist shops, Cornwell's Dept. Store, a jewelry store, two card shops, two beauty salons. restaurants, 2 banks only, a produce store, a general goods store,   a Western Auto store (where you could buy the makings of a kite) and much more.  The building owners of empty stores need to bring in some clothing stores, for adults, for teens and babies.  A shoe store, maybe - but keep the rent down.  Wareham has more parking space downtown, but we are like a ghost town.  Onset is worse.  Property owners need to know that a store that attracts the summer crowd, can not pay high rent in the off season.  This is why our gift shops on the highway shut down in the winter.  The weeds along the street need to be weeded or sprayed.  We need to be responsible for the areas around us.