Not quite complete....showing a bias, eh?
Update:
Dale has updated his site to better show that the Selectmen removed items from the proposed Library budget on his front page - no longer is it possible to assume that the Budget Committee did the cutting. Thank you!
Look, if Dale wants to play a game, he's not playing it very well. In this screen shot from his website:
If he was going to be completely honest, his table should show that almost EVERY department had its budget changed by the Selectmen before sending it on to the BudComm. But he didn't.
He is making a statement that his wife's department did not get what it wanted. Plain and simple...and in my opinion, blaming the rest of the BudComm (Margo Weeks excepted, as she voted with him) for not giving that department what it wanted is not the right way to play "in a civil manner". The Library budget, as reviewed and voted upon by the BudComm, was never amended. Making the claim that the budget that we voted on was amended is false.
Period.
IMHO...
He ran as fiscal conservative during the election. That has been proven as the BudComm was reviewing all the other departments. His discussion and vote on the library, however, has shown a bias of not being as conservative when it came to his wife's department.
Making the rest of us look like the "bad guys" does not supply sufficient cover to pull that off.
I guess Dick Hickok's statement back in the spring was prescient when he noted that if Dale did do what he did would be counterbalanced by the large number of members on the BudComm.
Comments
Skip,
You're absolutely right...the budget committee did not make changes to the budget as it was presented to them from the selectmen. I didn't mean to give that impression...but I sure did, so I'll correct it. I'll try to find some better way of wording it - but there IS a difference here, in that the library is the only department thus far that has actively implored the budget committee to restore things that the selectmen had cut. And it was that active request that was turned down.
As to your comment that I had campaigned on a promise that I would not talk about the library budget - that's simply not true.
And finally, I wish you would stop assuming that there is some underlying agenda to make you or others look bad. I am simply voting my conscience - you can agree, or you can disgree, but that's what it is.
Have a great weekend...and a great holiday next week! Dale
Posted by: Dale Dormody | November 16, 2007 10:32 PM
I would like to correct Dale on his statement "only the library has actively implored the BC to restore money that the Selectman cut." This is definately NOT true. The TC/TC actively sought money for her printing budget. The DPW actively sought money for a new truck but was killed in sub committee. They honestly didn't put up a fight but rather mentioned it in passing while reviewing other large increases. For the most part these departments, I had personal dealings with, recognize that departments can't always get everyhting they want and there is always next year. The Library has the distinction of being the ONLY department that has not just actively sought money but has done it in a very ABRASSIVE way. Quite frankly I was a little shocked at the negative tone from such an otherwise nice group of citizens. In my opinion, Mr. Seed should have remained silent.
Terry S.
Posted by: Terry | November 28, 2007 09:56 AM