Comments on: Budget Committee Meeting 03/19/09 http://ourvoice.stadig.org/2009/03/20/budget-committee-meeting-031909/ Improving Communication, In Our Town, About Our Town, One Day At A Time... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: chris gilpatrick http://ourvoice.stadig.org/2009/03/20/budget-committee-meeting-031909/comment-page-1/#comment-87 chris gilpatrick Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:08:29 +0000 http://ourvoice.stadig.org/?p=956#comment-87 why is it up to budget committee members to bring up discrepencies in expenses that our town ispaying for? one perfect example is our transfer station head . did our selectmen notice he's getting paid more than his salary was suppossed to be? do our selectmen actually look at timeslips our department heads are turning in? now is he only gonna work 12 hours and get paid his salary of 24 hours ? since when does lebanon need to pay people salary instead of laborers pay,when that is what they're suppossed to be? where will this end? why not pay the town hall employees salary and let them decide when they want to work ? people in lebanon are losing their houses and the budget committee has to oversee money spent inaproperly.who is watching the purse strings in the summer months when the committee doesn't see the expenses? just a few questions for our residents to ponder as we near election time. why is it up to budget committee members to bring up discrepencies in expenses that our town ispaying for? one perfect example is our transfer station head . did our selectmen notice he’s getting paid more than his salary was suppossed to be? do our selectmen actually look at timeslips our department heads are turning in? now is he only gonna work 12 hours and get paid his salary of 24 hours ? since when does lebanon need to pay people salary instead of laborers pay,when that is what they’re suppossed to be? where will this end? why not pay the town hall employees salary and let them decide when they want to work ? people in lebanon are losing their houses and the budget committee has to oversee money spent inaproperly.who is watching the purse strings in the summer months when the committee doesn’t see the expenses? just a few questions for our residents to ponder as we near election time.

]]> By: Glen Stadig http://ourvoice.stadig.org/2009/03/20/budget-committee-meeting-031909/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Glen Stadig Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:27:30 +0000 http://ourvoice.stadig.org/?p=956#comment-86 I would like recommend to the Budget Committee that they draft a letter explaining their dissatisfaction with the Budget process, explaining the specific difficulties encountered and requesting corrective action be taken to prevent the troubles experienced from occurring again. This should initiate a formal response by the Selectmen on how each of the problems will be addressed and thus stopping the repeated cycle or at minimum improving on it. In speaking to members and observing the meetings I hear comments making it clear to me that this isn't the first time many of the troubles have happened. To have a Selectmen just say they are working on it, it should get better etc. doesn't mean it will happen.There is greater commitment to action when things are written and documented. The definition of insanity is "Doing the exact same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results". It's time to stop the insanity and make a change...Budget Review is done every year and the process should be clear, concise and easily executed. If there are problems they should be identified, improved and eliminated if not they are doomed to repeat...certainly continuing to do things the way we always have in this case isn't working. I would like recommend to the Budget Committee that they draft a letter explaining their dissatisfaction with the Budget process, explaining the specific difficulties encountered and requesting corrective action be taken to prevent the troubles experienced from occurring again.

This should initiate a formal response by the Selectmen on how each of the problems will be addressed and thus stopping the repeated cycle or at minimum improving on it.

In speaking to members and observing the meetings I hear comments making it clear to me that this isn’t the first time many of the troubles have happened.

To have a Selectmen just say they are working on it, it should get better etc. doesn’t mean it will happen.There is greater commitment to action when things are written and documented.

The definition of insanity is “Doing the exact same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results”.

It’s time to stop the insanity and make a change…Budget Review is done every year and the process should be clear, concise and easily executed. If there are problems they should be identified, improved and eliminated if not they are doomed to repeat…certainly continuing to do things the way we always have in this case isn’t working.

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