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Sub-Committee Meeting Tonight to Discuss CM’s Contract

13 Responses to “Sub-Committee Meeting Tonight to Discuss CM’s Contract”

1. Right In Lowell Says:
   April 1st, 2010 at 11:03 am

   Can’t you just hear bud and rita with their long winded ‘the people are hurting, we can’t afford it’! It’s just time to make sure the city manager makes more than the supt. of schools for a change. While I’m on that subject, I stronly feel that it would be good government and good for the city if the supt. of schools reportedc to the city manager. The school department is accountable to nobody.

2. Lynne Says:
   April 1st, 2010 at 1:31 pm

   “He’s not communicating with us” is a euphemism for “we don’t like the way he does things.” When it comes to Rita/Bud/Rodney, that is something to APPLAUD in Lynch.

3. joe from Lowell Says:
   April 1st, 2010 at 3:10 pm

   It’s difficult for me to express, without lapsing into profanity, interpretive dance, and throwing sharp objects, how annoyed I am by Cox supporters complaining that the City Manager doesn’t communicate with them. These two are the hard-core holdouts who continued to resent the removal of the previous manager even after it came out that he had been withholding from the Council communications from the Department of Revenue about the state of our finances for months while he was working to shape that budget.

4. nextyearishere Says:
   April 1st, 2010 at 3:40 pm

   Any contract with performance goals would necessarily be complex, but those sub-committee members should be up to the task. The State has much control over things like local aid and certain legislative mandates, so that has to be considered when goals are established.

5. The Messenger Says:
   April 3rd, 2010 at 8:03 pm

   Nice article today. If C. Caulfield & Elliott were so concerned about this issue, perhaps they should’ve attended the “back-room” public subcommittee meeting televized last Thur. And, if C. Mercier had something to say, why not at said meeting rather than ranting in the press. Hypocrites.

6. Mike Says:
   April 4th, 2010 at 8:48 am

   What’s the purpose of subcommittees if you have to attend every meeting. You might as well do everything as a committee of the whole. You should be able to trust that your fellow colleages have not conspired together privately in advance and decided a course of action. If they did, which it appears they did, it’s a violation of the open meeting law and should be investigated. If this had Ben kazanjian there would be an uproar. Why would the mayor call Marty without a consensus of the council in advance? Because he already knew it was the consensus of his posse. P
   mendonca is his own guy cut descoteaux and Murphy are sheeple.

7. Lynne Says:
   April 4th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

   Mike, you are pretty obviously talking out of your ass. No offense. You’re the only person in the world saying that either Frankie or Patrick are sheeple. If you actually were paying attention or talked to them ever, you wouldn’t be saying that.

   If you think you have proof of a violation of open meeting law, please, file a formal complaint. But throwing an accusation out like that without proof is dangerous. I’ve even known about some previous GOB violations of open meeting laws, and didn’t throw out the accusation because it was too hard to prove. So go ahead, file something if you see a problem, since such a violation is a breach of everything about open public policy making. But if you are just trying to throw shit on a wall to see what sticks, then knock it off.

8. Anonymous Says:
   April 4th, 2010 at 6:18 pm

   Lynne everybody us saying it, they just are not interested in posting on your blog

9. Lynne Says:
   April 4th, 2010 at 6:32 pm

   Well obviously YOU aren’t one of those. And pick a nickname, stop leaving the name blank.

   Secondarily, sure, GOB types are saying it, but these are the same people who think it’s OK to I dunno, keep an audit letter from the DoR away from the City Council, so I don’t take much stock in their opinions.

   Anyone with integrity who observes local politics is pretty satisfied with the way things are going.

10. Lynne Says:
    April 4th, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    As previously stated on this blog, if you do not pick a nickname and post as “anonymous” then you get a warning then your comments will be deleted.

    This is because if there are people posting using the default nickname, we have no way of telling one person from another, so therefore it is a deletable offense.

    I’m posting this so said person can, if they so wish, post their (albeit childish) comment that was deleted under an actual nickname.

11. openyoureyes Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 9:51 am

    I love how you are so quick to chastize writers with the rules of this blog, maybe its a coincidence ( I don’t think so) but it always seems they have a critical or differing opinion from yours then we get “you’re breaking the rules and its a deletable offense.”

    Moving on, if you don’t think this is a done deal think again and all the sheeple will get on board. I love the idea of this special committee of “business and community” leaders that will investigate. All a smokscreen so no one person has to take the bullet. The main point we will hear is 1. We have to give him a long term contract and a raise because he will leave and go to another community.

12. Lynne Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 10:47 am

    Hi, hello, there’s a good reason we don’t want people posting with the default anonymous nickname and it has to do with the fact we cannot determine who is speaking if 10 people do this. It’s a practical reason so I don’t see why I’m getting hammered for being strict about it. It has nothing to do with differing viewpoints, I very rarely delete comments, but every time I do I have a damn good reason, and it’s not because people disagree with me. I let you post your comments, don’t I? Good grief. I wonder sometimes why I bother. I’m always damned if I do and damned if I don’t.

13. Gerry Nutter Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    I’ll defend Lynne here, she and I disagree on many things but she always publishes my post and we have had some great heated back and forth conversations.

    You can accuse this BLOG and posters of a lot of things but you can’t deny that Lynne not only publishes opposing views but loves to be challenged and enjoys a good argument (even when she is wrong)

    What’s so hard about either using your real name or pick a name that has absolutely nothing to do with what you are really like…just follow Prince Charmings example!

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