The Sterling Finance Committee, appointed by the Select Board, has not stood up for Sterling’s taxpayers since Larry Pape was its Chair ten (10) and more years ago. He made sure that Town Budgets remained stable, with minimal increases from year to year. When economic times were tough, as they were after the 2008 financial markets collapse, he protected Sterling taxpayers by keeping Town Budgets flat. In 2012 the then-Select Board members refused to re-appoint Larry Pape to the Finance Committee. Sterling taxpayers have been hosed, year in and year out, ever since.
Credit, therefore, is due Select Board member Arden Sonnenberg for voting to require the Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee to televise their respective meetings. She was outvoted by ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullsh*t,’ Maureen Cranson, and the ‘Bent Buffoon,’ John Kilcoyne, the dynamic duo Select Board tax-and-spend paragons of opacity and duplicity. For Cranson and Kilcoyne, the Finance Committee and Capital Budget Committee are useful tools/foils for caving to the various Town departmental spending requests and thus hosing, as a consequence of their cowardice, all Sterling taxpayers. They orchestrate the Annual Town Meeting Warrant Spending Articles and then point to the lines that say “Finance Committee recommends approval.” OF COURSE THEY DO. See how that incestuous scam works, folks?
Everett Heller, Finance Committee Chair/Chief Cranson-Kilcoyne Taxing and Spending Tool, was all in a huff when Ms. Sonnenberg stated, accurately, that failing to broadcast Finance Committee meetings demonstrated a lack of transparency. He threatened to resign if required to televise every Finance Committee meeting–
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/the-item/2022/02/25/finance-committee-wont-have-broadcast-meetings-sterling/6833317001/
MEMO TO EVERETT HELLER– Do all Sterling taxpayers a favor–resign/take your ball and go home, anyway.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 