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Long Island Mac · 03-06-2018, 11:12 PM

Tummyman,

Thanks for calling this to our attention. It has been a little quiet in town.
I read with great interest your note here and the Letters to the Editor in today's edition of the Laconia Daily Sun on similar concerns and matters for Town Meeting. Yes, I agree we must attend again this year!

I thought this Community Center thing was over, but apparently not. Seems like a back door plan to get it in. I went to the Town of Moultonborough website and downloaded a copy of the Town Report. It is very interesting reading. I wonder how it is that the Selectboard can sleep at night? It is clear to me that the cards read that the Community Center is back. They want Sidewalks too! And what is this about $125,000 for composting toilet pavilion at Playground Drive? Seems a bit extravagant even for Moultonborough standards. How ridiculous!

I am very disturbed but not surprised that we are not getting the $976,000 dollars back into our pockets from paying off the school bond. Our taxes should have been reduced by that amount.

Out of curiosity I went to the School website and found a document that compares last year's budget to this year's budget. Oh my. There it is in black and white. With a declining population (another sheet shows 500 students in ALL grades) the School is adding funding for EIGHT positions and decreasing one. These add another $300,000 to the salaries budget. Then another school bus is added for $75,000. Wow, and I see the buses going around practically empty.

If you add in the toilets, sidewalks, plow and who knows what else is buried in the numbers, the town eats up the rest of the Million Dollars we should have seen as a tax reduction.

Will see you all at Town Meeting. In the meantime I will be spending some more time with the reports. This is going to be bad. Good reading for a snowstorm day.

03-06-2018, 11:12 PM	#3
Long Island Mac Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 3 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	M'boro - here we go again??? Tummyman, Thanks for calling this to our attention. It has been a little quiet in town. I read with great interest your note here and the Letters to the Editor in today's edition of the Laconia Daily Sun on similar concerns and matters for Town Meeting. Yes, I agree we must attend again this year! I thought this Community Center thing was over, but apparently not. Seems like a back door plan to get it in. I went to the Town of Moultonborough website and downloaded a copy of the Town Report. It is very interesting reading. I wonder how it is that the Selectboard can sleep at night? It is clear to me that the cards read that the Community Center is back. They want Sidewalks too! And what is this about $125,000 for composting toilet pavilion at Playground Drive? Seems a bit extravagant even for Moultonborough standards. How ridiculous! I am very disturbed but not surprised that we are not getting the $976,000 dollars back into our pockets from paying off the school bond. Our taxes should have been reduced by that amount. Out of curiosity I went to the School website and found a document that compares last year's budget to this year's budget. Oh my. There it is in black and white. With a declining population (another sheet shows 500 students in ALL grades) the School is adding funding for EIGHT positions and decreasing one. These add another $300,000 to the salaries budget. Then another school bus is added for $75,000. Wow, and I see the buses going around practically empty. If you add in the toilets, sidewalks, plow and who knows what else is buried in the numbers, the town eats up the rest of the Million Dollars we should have seen as a tax reduction. Will see you all at Town Meeting. In the meantime I will be spending some more time with the reports. This is going to be bad. Good reading for a snowstorm day.