All posts in category Budget

Public forum without the public

The Budget Status Report and Public Forum was the first item on the agenda for Monday night’s Town Council meeting. Town Manager Roger Stancil was there at the microphone to update the council and residents on his staff’s work to fashion the fiscal 2011 town budget. Only the town had neglected to get the status […]

Knowing our options

Some council members looked confused at Monday night’s meeting when Council Member Matt Czajkowski asked Brian Litchfield, assistant transit director, about the cost of the forward contract to supply diesel fuel for town buses and service vehicles in the 2010-11 fiscal year. This was an item on the consent agenda that would have been approved […]

Spending on people, not things

By any measure, town workers did a bang-up job preparing the town for last weekend’s snow storm and clearing roadways in the storm’s aftermath. They worked overtime and through the weekend to make sure life returns to normal for the rest of us. I was amazed at how quickly things got back to normal, because […]

Our new home

We moved here because it’s where all the cool kids are.