PROOF THAT “YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID”–ARROGANT, GRANDSTANDING STERLING SELECT BOARD, AFTER THREE YEARS OF ‘TOWN PLANNER’/’GOFER’ ABUSE, WASTE, AND INCOMPETENCE, WANT ANOTHER ONE AT OUR EXPENSE

It’s official– the arrogant, grandstanding, Sterling taxpayer-abusing Select Board, after hijacking the ‘Master Plan’ process from the Planning Board where it belongs by law, wants to hire yet another ‘Town Planner’/Select Board’Gofer’ at Sterling taxpayer expense– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_11_22_amended_agenda.pdf This follows the recent, merciful departure of the Select Board’s failed three (3)-year ‘Town Planner’/’Gofer,’ Domenica Tatasciore. She was hired by the Select Board in October 2018 following the 2018 Sterling Annual Town Meeting during which voters authorized the hiring of a ‘Town Planner’ for the sole purpose of producing a new Sterling ‘Master Plan.’ Were Ms. Tatasciore a competent ‘Town Planner’ one would expect that, by now, only the finishing touches would be needed to complete Sterling’s new ‘Master Plan’ since the ‘Master Plan’ process should take only nine (9) months to two (2) years. Two other Massachusetts towns–one right here in Worcester County–completed their Master Plans recently, one town taking only twelve (12) months to do so and the other only fifteen (15) months. We may infer, therefore, that Ms. Tatasciore was an incompetent ‘Town Planner’ hired by an similarly incompetent Select Board.

The Select Board, of course, violated the scope of the 2018 Town Meeting authorization by using Ms. Tatasciore as their all-purpose ‘Gofer,’ too. The Select Board, therefore, has demonstrated lawlessness on two counts in the ‘Master Plan’ process.

Sidebar: The 22 November 2021 Select Board agenda–link above–also says that the Select Board will discuss searching for a new ‘Town Administrator.’ I guess we all missed the Select Board’s press release announcing Kellie Hebert’s definitive canning after merely ten (10) months on the job. Yeah, that’s more evidence of this Select Board’s incompetence in hiring, and incompetence in general.

SUGGESTION: Before we clean out this noxious Select Board over the next three election cycles, the Select Board should try hiring people who live in Sterling and care about our Town, rather than outside payroll patriots/grifters.

CLEANING HOUSE: As noted, we need to clean out this noxious Select Board one by one over the next three election cycles. So, honorable and competent candidates, please come forward!

J.G.