In case you didn’t know it, by law, in Massachusetts towns, Planning Boards, NOT Select Boards, are responsible for preparing Master Plans– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/planning-board In Sterling, however, the unaccountable grandstanding stiffs constituting the Select Board hijacked the Master Plan process more than three (3) years ago and hired the straphangers known as Barrett Planning Group LLC to guide the process– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/master_plan_mtg_6.21.18.pdf Yeah, so how has that worked out for us???
Back then the Sterling Planning Board should have told the Select Board to go suck swamp water. Had the Planning Board stood on its legal prerogatives we’d have a completed new Master Plan by now. The entire process is supposed to take nine (9) months to two (2) years, NOT three (3)+ years and counting. SEE http://www.mapc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CPTC_Ralph-Willmer_How-to-Create-a-Master-Plan_2015.pdf And, yeah, had the Planning Board retained rightful control and hired Ralph Willmer, Domenica Tatasciore and the straphangers at Barrett Planning Group LLC would never have fed from the Sterling-taxpayer-funded public trough supervised by the unaccountable grandstanding stiffs constituting the Select Board.
Of course, following the 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting, during which an article passed authorizing the open-ended hiring of a ‘Town Planner’ for the sole purpose of producing a new Master Plan, the unaccountable grandstanding stiffs constituting the Select Board really stuck it to Sterling taxpayers by hiring failed ‘Town Planner’/Select Board ‘Gofer’ Domenica Tatasciore (she left recently in an act of mercy for Sterling taxpayers) who, over her three (3) years of grifting, cost Sterling taxpayers $225,000 in pay alone–her other employment benefits costing us much more, of course–without presenting us a completed Master Plan.
Now check out the Sterling Planning Board’s 18 November 2021 Agenda that includes “Discuss financial support of Master Plan (Revolving Account)” — https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/pb_agenda_stamped_-_november_18_2021.pdf SO, what’s going on here??? Are the unaccountable grandstanding stiffs constituting the Select Board, after hijacking the process, trying to tap the Planning Board’s revolving account to pay for their exorbitant Master Plan boondoggle??? If so the Planning Board, now, at least, should tell the Select Board to go suck swamp water.
J.G.
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