Town of Braintree

Our DPW is on paper a DPW, but level of services hasn't improved one iota, has it? Are your streets cleaner after a storm? This consent decree imposed by the state - screw the state to cause five new employees at Water & Sewer. I called the Highway Department Sunday night to speak with our DPW Director McMahon. I was told he wasn't in town. Of course not. He lives in Concord. He could care less how we're cleaning the streets or spending our taxpayer dollars in hiring private contractors? We have a DPW Director who appoints an unqualified person to run the Water & Sewer Department ''under his engineering degree'' and now he appoints a Town OFficial as second in command in that department who will have three years to get the proper credentials for that job. We had a managers salary survey performed a few years ago and one decision reached was when the incumbent Town Accountant left his job, that position would be downgraded five slots, but when our Town Accountant was thrown out of his job for his indescretionary actions, we hire a new Town Accountant at the same top salary level? We hired a finance director and we're in what is obvious to us all miserable financial shape in town since his arrival? Coincidence or not, it ain't working with these two heavily recommended new positions created in past three years. Hmm, wasn't it the municipal financial genius incumbent Executive Secretary who was hired to help Braintree over these bumps in the road we're experiencing? Get rid of her. Get rid of DPW Director and we don't need a finance director if he can't control all of the financial departments including missing in action Town Treasurer, Town Collector and Assessors to boot. He's become nothing more than a Finance Committee personal department head official.
That's a quarter of a million dollars right there we could save for what we're getting in return. Enough is enough. Rebellion time? Where's the Tea I want to throw into the Monatiquot?

By Taxpayer

Forget the Tea

Forget the Tea I want to throw the selectmen, especially Mr. Hubbard into the Monatiquot?
The revolt is a good idea, we could storm town hall and take hostages. we should start with a gallows and a pillory on the town commons to make the point. that we are serious.
If then they don?’t get the idea that we mean business into the river, and tar and feather for good measure, then out of town on a rail.
Lets give them the strong feeling that we are serious and will not take it anymore.

he always encourages violence

how does he do it

Dec 29, 2004
and keep from being lynched?
in colonial times Braintree had an village idiot or two,they survived by
being pathetic and much in need of mercy.
well i guess nothing has really changed.

-By Anonymous



By THO

good info here with angst but

beating up the same people over and over and over again at the site is Boring!are you looking to make a civic post run? you do have a handle on the players and the problems.being facetious while venting sometimes helps,but at the end of the day the problems you so eloquently pointed out still exist.the people who are responsible for those bad decisions
usually get voted out when their term is up and are replaced by another who comes in with good intentions but winds up being unable to keep everyone happy.where do you expect to get candidates that match the criteria you or anyone else for that matter, set down? if you do know,recommend them to the rest of us.it's not like we enjoyed
being this under gratified.good luck and enjoy the new year

By THO