Danville BOS Meeting 06/15/09
Um…must see BoS meetings? They are getting interesting. For the second meeting in a row, the BoS heard from a resident who had lost property due to back taxes. These people have had tax issues for three decades. They claim to be able to pay the taxes but are unwilling to pay penalties. I’m starting to feel like a chump for paying my taxes. I’d like a little small town love too!
Waste Management was in. The post card coming to clarify the error filled flyer also contains errors. Even the selectmen do not understand what can be recycled. Waste Management provided the BoS with educational materials which may be posted to our cable channel and shared with the schools. I applaud the BoS for their forward thinking on this matter. They also asked Waste Management to poke us a little less on for fee pickups. Waste Management will look into it…
Looks like the town is going to increase our cemetery area by 500%. They have their eye on 50 acres. Every acre the town takes for historical, conservation, public buildings, cemeteries, or pounds is an acre that cannot contribute to the tax base. Is there any reason why the town forest cannot surrender a couple acres to a cemetery?
The selectmen discussed increasing the hours of their clerk by 30%. They want her to cross train with other employees and attend meetings. Is this the best time to increase the burden of government? We should be looking to reduce the burden. How about we move the town offices to the basement of the library? We could eliminate bodies being paid to occupy the generally empty part of the library, automate as many tasks as possible (ie., online auto registration), and consolidate all the clerk classifications. We could cross train these clerks to backup the tax collector and town clerk.
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Concerned parent of two children in the TRSD school system who pays taxes and is not employed by -- or contracted to -- the town or the SAU...one of the Rest of Us