Town of Braintree

How did this guy get into offfice? Answer: The ''Save Braintree'' crowd. We need another counter group like the one that opposed the Charter change last year. The school committe and Hubbard are as thick as thieve's. Neither have any real world financial background or acumen. The Finance Committee chairman, T. Langill is opposed to an override and with justification, saying the school committee gave the store away approving a 10% teachers raise. Other unions will be coming looking for the same. In thimes like these, when private industry is giving no raises for the last several years,why does our financially inept school committee feel our teachers and other are owed disproportionate raises. 180 days a year and salary of just say a modest 55,000 equates to $110,000 annually. Give me a break. NO, NO, NO to any over-ride!!!! And Hubbard has got to go.

By jd

fine.your point taken. so what

do you want to do about it?have a candidate that will agree with every one of your concerns? good luck with that. there are 34,000 other people in town as well.it would be nice to get their consensus as well

By THO

here is another,less popular one


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We Need Override For Pride

Dec 28, 2004
Braintree has a rich heritage that's gone sour. Our infrastructure of buildings, parks, fields, roads, office spaces for our employees all in need of serious upgrade. Our budget dilemma is we can't afford to upgrade (it will only be more costly the longer we put off our repsonsibilities)without an override. Say what you want about our various town officials, but over the past three years, they have been miracle worker employees under them from my view. We need to step up and float a bond issue that will once and for all upgrade the dignity and pride in Braintree. We can watchdog all we want, bitch and complain, but an affordable $25,000,000 bond issue to do road upgrades, fix schools, eliminate Wants from Needs, pare some employees and get serious about fixing what's broke, but not building new. I no more want ot spend more, but I'm serious about the decaying landscape here in Braintree from our grounds on up. We can do it affordably with a one time debt exclusion bond issue. Some for roads. Some for school BUILDINGS, some for office areas, some for parks and fields, some for fire and police quarters. Forget about adding personnel in the interim. Do with what we have in numbers and pare a few here and there. Reign in the school budget, our budget busting bulldog of tax dollars. Give affordable raises to our hard working employees, but cut the glut of perks and budget busting indulgences. Let's restore Braintree Pride as the class community of the South Shore with still the lowest tax rate anywhere to boot! Let's begin with this New Years Resolution Approach.

-By Bert




By THO

One Guy

The fin com chairman is only one member and one vote of that committee. not all of the members agree with him; in fact several disagree strongly. So before you start saying the finance committee's against raises (1% in first year for teachers, not 10%...it's 10% over FOUR years.) and against overrides better wait to hear what the rest of them say. And where's the finance director Mr. Kinsherf on all of this?

The fin com chairman has been a ''cut the school budget'' guy forever...believes in private schools for the beautiful people and public for everyone else.

Make sure you know who you're jumping in with before you turn off the light!

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