Spending other people's money.....Meredith, NH....off the top of my head.....in the last six years....Meredith has built.....first, a 4.5 million dollar community center......second, a 2.5 million dollar police station....and third, from March -December 2008, a 2.2 million dollar fire station, major enlargement.
Considering that the brand new fire station created a couple of new, large, garage bays, purchasing a new large aerial tower was probably a 'quid pro quo' for the four out of five selectmen who unanimously voted for it in September, 2008.
Do you think there was any chance that they even took a look at a used vehicle like at
www.fentonfire.com, located in Quibec, when considering their $725,000 new, built-to-order purchase from
www.piercemfg.com in Wisconsin?
All the expensive buildings were voted on by the town at the late night, March town meeting by about 300 residents by show of hands (175yea-125nay) which is about eight percent of the number of voters that showed up for the all-day, 7am-7pm, presidential ballot voting (1857 McCain - 1964 Obama) for a total of 3821.
Like, so whatever happened to our reasonable right to vote, right here in Meredith, NH?