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Citizens for Limited Taxation

February 6, 2003
I brought up the issue of the town plowing church lots at taxpayers expense that was first brought up by Cheryl Gordon in an editorial.

See my assorted notes on the issue.

The town manager provided some information of layoffs (on the town side) for 2004 given that state aid drops by 10%. This might be optimistic. There would be a total of 14 actual layoffs. The dramatization of the layoffs would have made one think that the end of the world was at hand.  Pretty pitiful.  It's interesting that the town manager referred to eliminating six unfilled positions as layoffs. 

In 2002, we had 2,273 full/part time employees.  After 2004, we might have about 2,200 employees.

He reminded the Board of Selectman that they can still vote to place an override on the ballot for the April town meeting..

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