The Sterling Select Board’s 23 June 2021 Agenda (amended twice) includes this item: “Discuss the establishment of a Land Use & Permitting Department”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_6_23_agenda3.pdf
Just what Sterling, a Town of 7800 people, needs!–another layer of bureaucrat payroll patriots inside the Municipal Building, at taxpayer expense, pretending to perform useful tasks while really scrounging make-work and re-arranging, languidly, items on their desks.
Of course, the Select Board members are looking for a place to stash, permanently, their favorite $79,000+/year ‘Gofer,’ Domenica Tatasciore, who was hired 32 months ago to produce a new Town Master Plan but has failed to do so, while other Massachusetts towns produced their new Master Plans in 12-15 months. I suppose the Select Board’s theory is that nothing succeeds like failure. So, care to guess who they plan to name as the new “Land Use & Permitting Department” head with a salary increase???
This move constitutes a back-handed acknowledgement that the numerous Town boards, committees, and employees already tasked with land use permitting and oversight responsibilities can’t find their own A$$E$ with either hand.
Stay tuned and watch your wallets.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 