The $8 Million Bailout Is On.
By Jim Conley • Dec 18th, 2007 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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The Tab’s Neal Simpson is reporting that a “study group” advising the Clueless Five (i.e., Brookline Selectmen) on a Proposition 2.5 over-ride has officially recommended an $8 million ballot question bailout of the town’s finances.
Gee, almost half of that ($3.5 million) will go to covering an operational deficit. But where did this “operational deficit” come from? Well, in a few days we’ll have some answers on that; but let’s just say it’s the price we pay for the so-called professional management in Brookline.
Folks, an over-ride to buttress a $200 million budget (of which only 35% goes to schools) is nothing more than an admission of failure on the part of the current management team (and the selectmen). It makes no sense to give over more money for them to mis-manage.
And not that it will matter, but this site will chronicle for voters the mis-management made by town government, leading to the need for an $8 million bailout.
You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Unless you serve on the Brookline Board of Selectmen and the town’s finance committee.
Update: Can we look forward to a winter of misery on our public ways in order that town administrators can make the point that we get lousy services? And that more money is needed to improve them? Seems so.
Why else would the DPW not plow its sidewalk at the perimeter of the Centre St. parking lot? We may lose a few seniors to their push out into traffic, but it will be worth it once the $8 million bailout occurs.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Regarding the $6 million Town investment in the St. Aidan’s Project, could the Selectmen be charged with “Aid’n’ and A-bettin’” the potential loss of affordable housing trust funds they were entrusted with? Does the “Prudent Investor” rule apply to them? Would they be so cavalier with their own money?
Are the lunatics running the asylum?