In my dictionary, next to the definition of “dick around”–
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dick%20around –are exemplar photographs of Sterling’s incompetent, failed so-called ‘Town Planner,’ the cipher, poseur, and favored Select Board ‘Gofer’ Domenica Tatasciore; the dawdling, doddering, unfocused, aimless, unwieldy, lackadaisical so-called ‘Master Plan Committee;’ and the three navel-gazing, self-important, bumps-on-a-log who oversee all of the aforesaid, Sterling’s Select Board. None of the foregoing would recognize the importance of brevity, succinctness, relevance, focus, goal-orientation, timeliness, deadlines, cost-effectiveness, fiscal restraint, or mission accomplishment if all those concepts reared up simultaneously and bit ’em all on their respective asses.
THE STERLING ‘MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE’ AND “BARRETT PLANNING GROUP LLC”–DICKING AROUND SINCE JUNE 2018 AT STERLING TAXPAYER EXPENSE
Sterling taxpayers have been paying the bills for the straphangers called “Barrett Planning Group LLC” since June 2018, as shown by the first so-called ‘Master Plan Committee’ ‘Agenda’ displayed on the Town’s website– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/master_plan_mtg_6.21.18.pdf
In other words, “Barrett Planning Group LLC,” hired by the Sterling Select Board, have been dicking around at our expense for 38 months with NOTHING of value produced for the Town’s property-owning taxpayers. MEANWHILE, the Town of Sturbridge, right here in Worcester County, completed its new Master Plan in a mere fifteen months. The Town of Fairhaven’s Master Plan was completed in a year! That’s called competence, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, folks, traits discouraged by the outright dopes constituting Sterling’s Select Board. DO THE STRAPHANGERS AT “BARRETT PLANNING GROUP LLC” HAVE ANY INCENTIVE TO SPEED UP MASTER PLAN PRODUCTION??? ANSWER: OF COURSE NOT, THE MORE THIS PROCESS DRAGS ON THE LONGER THEY CAN MOOCH OFF STERLING
TAXPAYERS.
MAY 2019, NO SURPRISE: BLOVIATING BULLSH*T FROM ‘OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSH*T,’ ILLEGITIMATE HOLDOVER SELECT BOARD CHAIR MAUREEN CRANSON
The Sterling Planning Board is responsible for producing new Town Master Plans but the self-important, preening poseurs intending to create a massive, verbose, unreadable new ‘Master Plan’ tome as a printed monument to themselves don’t care about that. In May 2019, illegitimate holdover Select Board Chair Maureen Cranson, in one of her usual factually-unsupported bloviating BULLSH*T pronouncements, said this about the Master Plan process: “It was evident the citizens are energized. As selectmen, I [sic] would like to move this forward… While it is in the purview of the Planning Board, I don’t want to lose energy. We owe it to the people who have worked a year or a year and a half to move forward.” https://www.telegram.com/news/20190603/selectmen-move-forward-master-plan-process That was her self-promoting bogus rationale for appointing NINE sub-committee chairs to the ‘Master Plan Committee,’ thereby making it totally unwieldy. “Energy” and “mov[ing] forward”??? WHAT A CROCK OF UNADULTERATED EXORBITANTLY EXPENSIVE SH*T! The Planning Board would have completed a workable new Master Plan by now. Thirty-eight (38) months down the road and these alternative assorted geniuses have produced SQUAT.
THE MANNEQUINS ON THE SO-CALLED ‘MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE’ ARE STILL PUTTING OUT “SURVEYS” AND DISCUSSING COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Any and all relevant questions to be included in ‘Master Plan’ citizen surveys should have been framed at the outset, three years ago. BUT, the so-called ‘Master Plan Committee’ is now framing a THIRD citizen survey and still discussing “Committee Assignments”– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_08_26_mpc_agenda.pdf Are you friggin’ kidding us??? Are you telling us that “Barrett Planning Group LLC,” hired by the Select Board, has done none of this previously and has no model “surveys” already in their hopper??? The Select Board is SQUARELY responsible for this ongoing, costly circus.
DOMENICA TATASCIORE, FAKE TOWN PLANNER AND THE SELECT BOARD’S $210,000 -AND-COUNTING ‘GOFER’
In October 2018 the Select Board hired Domenica Tatasciore as purported ‘Town Planner’ following the May 2018 Annual Town Meeting vote authorizing the hiring of a Town Planner for the sole, expressed purpose of producing a new Town Master Plan. Her starting salary was $74,000+, her current salary is $79,000+. In thirty-four (34) months she has not produced a new Master Plan. As an abject failure she has been paid more than $210,000 in Sterling taxpayer money, this in addition to the Sterling taxpayer money still being wasted on the four-flushing gravy-train feeders at “Barrett Planning Group LLC.” Meanwhile, the Select Board has used Tatasciore as their ‘Gofer’ for multiple, relatively insignificant tasks–WITHOUT TOWN MEETING AUTHORITY (Ultra Vires)–and even found a manufactured- administrative-bloat-bogus-excuse to pay her even MORE, AGAIN WITHOUT TOWN MEETING APPROVAL. SEE this, scroll down– https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2021/02/19/composting-proposal-sterling-could-reduce-waste-bring-revenue/6792068002/ All of this is, of course, is an absolute outrage but, as you now know, the Select Board, collectively, possesses no standards, no ethics, and, therefore, no shame. WHAT IS A SHAME IS THAT NEITHER KILCOYNE, THE BENT BUFFOON, NOR CRANSON, ‘OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSH*T,’ HAD OPPONENTS TO THEIR RECENT RE-ELECTIONS. HERE’S TO HOPING FOR SOME REAL, VIABLE ELECTORAL CONTESTS IN TOWN ELECTION CYCLES TO COME.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 