A tangled web?
Dale Dormody, RHS, awaits the outcome of the recount
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Last week I wrote a post about campaign promises. I made some statements regarding Mr. Dormody’s promises to abstain from certain votes. At his request I am clarifying the actual promises he made prior to the election. I did confirm that his written promises can be found on the website he created for the campaign, www.gilfordbudget.com, and that website [at the time of this posting] has not been changed since then.
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Here is his exact quote;
“I would go beyond the requirements of the statute, and would agree not to serve on the subcommittee assigned to review the library budget, and would specifically refrain from any votes on the library director's salary or benefit package.”
This still raises the questions I brought up in my last post. As I recall, the budget process does not parcel out the library directors salary from the rest of the budget. The department budget as a whole is what is discussed and voted on. I believe the same situation is true with the employee benefits package. The question that will arise is the following. How will the budget committee establish ground rules as to how to accommodate Mr. Dormody’s request? If that occurs then what happens if some members of the budget committee argue that the entire library budget effects Mr. Dormody’s welfare.
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Is there any doubt that an expanded roll of the library function or staff would deeply benefit the director? I personally think that he has a good point when he argues that he shouldn’t be excluded from the entire process just because his wife is a fraction of the broader conversation. The problem I think he may have to wrestle with is the fact that he was the largest proponent of a “Code of Conduct”. I believe the revised version that the Selectmen are currently looking at includes the phrase, “appearance of impropriety”.
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At the very least this is going to make the first budget committee meeting interesting. Hopefully, this is much to do about nothing because I would think that he agrees, like everyone else, that the cost of benefits should be shared by the employee.
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Terry S.
Terry S.
