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UPDATE: Citizen has now put the story online (Thanks Cutter!)

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Curious and Curiouser...

At the end of my last post, I wondered why the Moultonboro Budget Committee Study Committee (ok, you come up with a better name!) was going to meet with the School Board.  And yet, coming all the way down, not meet with the BudComm itself.  

Also read the Citizen article (promotion denied -> Frank Tilton is still the Belknap County Republican Chair! Oh well, it was nice while it lasted....I think!  The dead-tree version has it, not the online one yet)

Oh yeah, back to the events of last night.  It seems that when the Moultonboro Study Committee's ("MSC") notification for last night's meeting was posted, according to Hollis Austin of Moultonboro who we met after things broke up, it stated that they were going to meet with the Selectmen, reps from the School Board, and reps from the BudComm.  Also, the location was just posted as Gilford and not a specific time.  He had to call their Chair to get the specific information. 

Why did I note this?  It is hard to have an open meeting when those that are an official committee of a town do not give sufficient notification to its citizens so as to participate.  Chance meetings are one thing; deliberately not providing information is another so as to make having open and transparent government is another. 

Note: speaking of Hollis - you know, you gotta like a guy that is videoing meetings and is willing to make copies of the whole thing for anyone who want to see it.  Tip - use DVDs and not VHS!  Better yet, YouTube it! 

Anyways, this meeting was news to me!  If I hadn't been down there and noticed all these "new" people and called Doug to ask what was going on, we wouldn't have been a part of it or known anything about this.

After all, even Dick Hickok, the BudComm Chair, was unaware of a meeting that had been set up between the MSC and our Board......

Er, are you getting the same impression that I am?

More later