State of the City address from Charlie
-Much of last night's performance might look familiar. The Mayor blamed the past administration, just like the administration before him did for all our problems. The not so new news was that water rates are going to perhaps double this year. While he claims to make that department more efficient in the future, I wonder how this will get done without another revenue stream. And he forgot to mention the waste water mandate from the State that will hit this year.
And there's the much anticipated, money saving, charter mandated, consolidation of the HR department. With the hiring of the Dedham Public school HR director Cathy O'Leary as our HR person, replacing the forced out Dolores Hamilton, I think the pink slips will be coming soon for most of the school's HR department. Look for Ms. O'Leary to be interviewed on local TV soon as she was once on the AFTV BOD and is pals with the local racing to be relevant talk show host.
Perhaps the savings there could go to the water enterprise fund. Or as I suggested years ago, take some of the mj tax revenue to help the rate payers stave off huge water rate increases that are coming.
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posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 1:44 PM
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2 Comments:
Interesting how the same city councilors who ravaged our first mayor now down to kiss the feet of our second mayor
I think Charlie is putting band back together. Peter Sellers playing bass, George King on drums, Phil on lead guitar with Charlie on vocals.
The same players who were in charge of our water department (except Phil) many years ago. As you may remember Framingham was mandated to do a huge amount of work to satisfy the state. That work which we are still paying for was ignored by the BOS for many years.
Bringing Peter back is a good idea as he is very familiar with our Town's water issues. Lets hope is he comes back he can convince the council and Mayor that work has to be done on our water infrastructure.
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