Folks, the out-of-control SPENDING JACKASSES running the Sterling D.P.W. want us Sterling property taxpayers to cough up $33 million for their proposed new luxury facility, the ‘Garage Mahal,’ and drive up our property tax rate by 11% for years to come on a borrowing-bond issue.
According to an article in the latest Sterling Meetinghouse News, “The new DPW building will not be a simple ‘town barn.’ It will feature a full-service diesel and gasoline fuel island, a heavy truck repair shop, a vehicle wash bay, and climate-controlled storage for DPW emergency response vehicles. The facility will also include offices, a training room, and other amenities for employees—facilities the current building lacks (emphasis added).”
YA,YA! FOR $33 MILLION OF YOUR PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS THE STERLING D.P.W. WANTS LUXURY LIVING FOR ITS TRUCKS.
DURING THE 5 MAY 2025 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING THE D.P.W. REPRESENTATIVES ADMITTED THAT THEY NEVER VISITED the Commonwealth of Massachusetts D.P.W. facility on Chocksett Road, ANY of the other properties with STEEL BUILDINGS ALL ALONG Chocksett Road and Pratts Junction Road, Sterling Storage Solutions, or James Monroe Wire & Cable, just over the Town line in Lancaster, to determine what type of FAR CHEAPER steel building(s) the D.P.W. could have designed and then buy instead of their proposed $33 Million ‘Garage Mahal.’ The Sterling D.P.W., OBVIOUSLY, HAS NO CONCERN FOR STERLING PROPERTY TAXPAYERS AND HAS NO INTEREST IN FRUGALITY OR COST EFFECTIVENESS. Steel buildings are too practical, too utilitarian, and too prosaic for the Sterling D.P.W.! I mean, why contact steel building suppliers such as those listed below when you can hose Sterling property taxpayers for $33 Million to put up a luxurious ‘Garage Mahal?’
https://www.steelmasterusa.com/industries/government/
https://www.americanmetalbuildings.com/metal-buildings/commercial-metal-buildings/
https://www.qualitysteelbuildings.com/industrial-buildings/
https://packagesteelsystem.com/building-solutions
AND HOW ABOUT THIS??? THE STERLING D.P.W. COULD PROTECT ITS VEHICLES FROM THE WEATHER AND SAVE US TAXPAYERS EVEN MORE MONEY BY DESIGNING AND PURCHASING SIMPLE STEEL ‘TRUCKPORTS’:
SEE https://www.steelbuildingsandstructures.com/products/category/metal-carports/
According to that same Sterling Meetinghouse News article, Sterling D.P.W. ASSCLOWNS “issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to select a designer for the new facility… The selected designer will…evaluate potential sites within Sterling and review the feasibility study, current fleet, and space needs… At the Annual Town Meeting on May 5, 2025 the [Sterling D.P.W.] is requesting $500,000 to advance the project through schematic design and hire an owner’s project manager (OPM).”
That’s right folks, the Sterling D.P.W. wants us to pony up $500,000 in seed money for a total shot in the dark and several layers of unnecessary bullshit.
Here is Proposition 2 ½ Override info from the Town of West Boylston since the Sterling Select Board lacks the honesty and integrity needed to post such info on the Town of Sterling website.
SEE https://www.westboylston-ma.gov/home/pages/proposition-2-12-override-questions-and-answers
That $500,000 Sterling D.P.W. Proposition 2 ½ Override spending request is set forth as 12 May 2025 Town Election Ballot Question 2.
SEE https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/news/2025_ate_ballot_sample_1_0.pdf
PLEASE SHOW UP AND VOTE IT DOWN. STOP THE ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE IN ITS TRACKS.
MAKE THE STERLING D.P.W. START OVER BY DEALING WITH COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL/GOVERNMENT STEEL BUILDING SUPPLIERS INSTEAD.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 