REFLEXIVE SPENDER KIRSTEN NEWMAN, DEI QUEEN PATRICIA WARD, AND THE OUT-OF-CONTROL STERLING D.P.W. BOARD TRIED TO OUST JOE KING FROM THE FINANCE COMMITTEE

Sterling DemocRAT Town Committee member and Select Board Chair Kirsten Newman wouldn’t recognize fiscal restraint if it bit her in the ass. Likewise DEI queen and new Select Board member Patricia Ward, who came over from the Sterling Cultural Council. This is from the Cultural Council’s webpage–

Cultural Council

The members of the Cultural Council are appointed by the Select Board for a 3-year term. Each member may serve (2) consecutive terms.

This Board operates in accordance with State mandates and regulations of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Mission: To promote excellence, inclusion, education and diversity in the arts, humanities, and sciences to foster a rich cultural life for all Massachusetts residents and contributes to the vitality of our communities and economy. The council pursues this mission through a wide range of grants, initiatives , and advocacy for artists, communities, organizations, and schools.

Board Members

Name	Title
Judith Doherty	Chair (1/06/2024)
Patricia Ward	Member (04/29/2023)
Christine Corff	Member (06/10/2024)
Julia Doherty-Meehan	Member (06/30/2025)
Melissa Warren	Member (06/07/2026)

See, you have to be a DEI queen to be on the Sterling Cultural Council.

And then we have the reckless, profligate, out-of-control Sterling D.P.W. Board members pushing for construction of a luxurious new D.P.W. ‘Garage Mahal’ that would increase Sterling property taxes by a whopping 11% over the multi-year life of the bond that would be required to pay for that utter BOONDOGGLE.

THEY ALL WANTED JOE KING KICKED OFF THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE DURING THE SELECT BOARD’S 16 JULY 2025 JOINT MEETING WITH THE TOWN MODERATOR AND THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

Apparently Mr. King isn’t a fan of the D.P.W.’s outlandish and outrageous ‘Garage Mahal’ proposal. What thinking person is? For his failure to go along the D.P.W. sent a letter to the Select Board labeling Mr. King “unnecessarily contentious.” The D.P.W. prefers someone “respectful and collaborative,” meaning a spineless wimp willing to go along with the D.P.W.’s proposed rape of every Sterling property taxpayer.

MEMO TO THE D.P.W. BOARD: Go screw yourselves and the goats upon which you rode in. Go ahead, label me “unnecessarily contentious” because I oppose your hosing of every Sterling property taxpayer. Badge of honor in my book.

According to that spineless blob Kirsten Newman, several people in Town had conflicts with Mr. King. Yeah, I bet–those who want unconstrained feeding from the taxpayer-funded Town of Sterling public mammary gland.  My heart bleeds for those grifters, dontcha know.

Apparently Mr. King opposes outright raids on the Sterling public fisc so, according to Kirsten Newman, that constitutes “disrespectful behavior.” However, for the sane people in Town that constitutes doing what the Finance Committee is supposed to do.

Oh yeah, Select Board member Maureen ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit’ Cranson chimed in and told Mr. King that he had “scared off” some “younger people the town has been trying to recruit” for the Finance Committee. I take that to mean that the Select Board has been trying to recruit younger, relatively naïve people that the Select Board can push around so at Annual Town Meetings the Select Board can say “See, the Finance Committee supports us on these Warrant Articles by which we are screwing you taxpayers some more.”

This is from the Finance Committee’s webpage:

Mission

Provide financial leadership and guidance to the town organizations and general public.  Ensure Town organizations deliver services while optimizing financial resources.

Sterling Finance Committee Guiding Principles

1. Minimize year over year tax levy changes.
2. Treat all departments, committees and individuals consistently and respectfully.
3. As a guideline, maintain the Capital Fund at a level equal to the total annual capital asset depreciation or greater.
4. As a guideline, items considered for the Capital Fund should have a useful life of greater than 5 years and a cost of $25K or more.
5. As a guideline, items considered for bonding should have a useful life greater than 10 years and a cost of $100K or more.
6. Maintain a 3-year planning horizon.
7. Focus on the fiscal aspects of all Town issues and remain neutral to the “politics” of issues.
8. Maintain a strong fiscal discipline and continue to emphasize the importance of healthy reserves.
9. Make decisions that will serve to maintain and increase the taxpayers’ and voters’ trust and respect, paving the way for confidence in future Finance Committee decisions.

Vision and Mission Statement Adopted December 1, 2022

MEMO TO MAU-MAUING KIRSTEN NEWMAN AND PATRICIA WARD:

Try reading items 8 and 9.

In the end, Mr. King was re-appointed to the Finance Committee and the Capital Committee, just barely, no thanks to Newman and Ward who, undoubtedly, will support a massive Proposition 2 ½ override in 2026 necessitated by the failing, substandard, parasitical, out-of-control Wachusett Regional School District.

Stay tuned.

J.G.