On Monday December 28 Paris Selectmen meet at 7 pm at the fire station. The agenda promises a full schedule of critical items.
Items 4 and 11 relate to one of the critical items - the appointment of Philip Tarr as Town Manager. As does item #3, the executive session to discuss the contract. There seems to be no looking at the possibility of a second interim manager until the legal issues with former Town Mgr. Jackson are clearer; no concern about possible court costs and legal outcomes - outcomes that are indeed going to come.
A full time manager. Listen carefully tomorrow night as the contract is explained fully. What? No explanation forthcoming? Guess they had a reason for Citizen Comments being well down the page, #7. It's too bad nobody will be able to ask about iron clad contracts, and what they cost. Or ask about what happens "if"....
Do they think it doesn't matter who picks up the tab? And while we're at it - considering questions we aren't supposed to ask - who put this tab together, anyway?
Item # 10 indicates a Special Town Meeting sometime in January. The fire department's water tanker is definitely a real need; but what about the rush job revaluation? with money not yet avavailable? Revaluation must be looked at and thoroughly discussed, yes.
But, exactly who would benefit from this revaluation if it is done right away in the middle of winter? Finished before April? Is the aim to get a thorough and well done job for the whole town of Paris, or is the rush to fullfill a campaign promise to somebody?
If the current majority of a board suspected they might not be the majority as long as they planned, and wanted to insure there was no way for successors to get around the priorities they had already set in motion...
...how might that look?
If any part of those priorities was not in the best interest of the whole town, what sort of agenda would that be? Who would ever do such a thing?
