Folks, there will be TWO (2) Proposition 2 ½ property tax override votes as part of the Town of Sterling’s 12 May 2025 TOWN ELECTION—
—UNLESS STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING VOTERS SHOOT DOWN WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26 FIRST IN ORDER TO PRESERVE SOME OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY FROM STERLING D.P.W. DEPREDATIONS.
Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 25 requests Proposition 2 ½ property tax override for $500,000 in seed money the D.P.W. wants first towards its absolutely absurd, batshit-crazy proposed new $33 Million building for which it has no architectural drawings and about which the JACKASSES running the D.P.W., apparently, have sought NO designs or estimates for a much cheaper steel building or steel buildings from the MULTIPLE steel building fabricators and suppliers doing business in New England. A Thirty-three million dollar ($33 million)-in-borrowing bond issue FOR THAT F#@%ING BOONDOGGLE would raise Sterling property tax rates 11% FOR YEARS TO COME.
AND WHILE the Chamberlain Road, Newell Hill Road, Redstone Hill Road, Rugg Road, and westerly Beaman Road surfaces, as examples, HAVE GONE TO ABSOLUTE SHIT, do you really want to screw yourselves with a Proposition 2 ½ override for $800,000 in drainage and erosion control work along Swett Hill Road? I didn’t think so.
SEE WARRANT ARTICLES 25 and 26: https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/05_05_2025_atm_warrant.pdf
The Sterling Select Board has never possessed the honesty and integrity (NO surprise there!) required to place Proposition 2 ½ written explanation on the Town of Sterling website. BUT other towns have them. Here is the one from West Boylston— https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers
YOU CAN NIP THIS CRAP IN THE BUD AND SAVE YOURSELVES A LOT OF MONEY. VOTE DOWN 2025 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLES 25 AND 26.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 