FOLKS, if you watched the 26 February 2026 joint Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee meeting on Sterling-Lancaster Community TV you would have learned that for the next Fiscal Year’s proposed budget Town officials have spent to within $12,000 of our Town’s Proposition 2 ½ levy limit, meaning that we avoided a Proposition 2 ½ Override Vote by just that much—SO FAR. The figures could change before the May 2026 Annual Town Meeting. The Finance Committee-CBC are spending down and playing shell games with what are supposed to be prudent, healthy reserves in ‘Free Cash,’ the Stabilization Fund, and the Capital Investment Fund to stave off a Proposition 2 ½ Override Vote. From now through the 2026 Annual Town Meeting they, the Town Administrator, and the Select Board will posture and pretend that they are heroes and wizards for kicking the Proposition 2 ½ Override Can down the road to next year. WELL, ACTUALLY, NO: THEY ARE FECKLESS, GUTLESS, INCOMPETENT, FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE CRETINS WHO ALLOWED THIS FINANCIAL CRISIS TO BUILD OVER MANY YEARS BY FAILING TO CONFRONT THE WRSD’S SKYROCKETING PAYROLL/BUDGET BLOAT AND THE TOWN OF STERLING’S OWN SKYROCKETING PAYROLL BLOAT.
IN FACT, with a mere $12,000 breather the Finance Committee-CBC signaled approval for a Town employee cost of living allowance/COLA [increase] of 3% instead of exercising prudence and limiting it to 2%. THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE F#CKING STUPID INVERTEBRATES, TOGETHER WITH THE TOWN ADMINISTRATOR AND THE SELECT BOARD, TWO OF WHOSE MEMBERS—INCOMPETENT POSEUR CHAIR KIRSTEN NEWMAN, AND MAUREEN “OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL BULLSHIT” CRANSON—WERE SITTING IN ATTENDANCE.
THE SELECT BOARD APPOINTS, OR FAILS TO RE-APPOINT, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE-CBC MEMBERS, SO THE PRESENCE OF NEWMAN AND CRANSON AT THAT MEETING WAS A NOT-SO-SUBTLE HINT THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE-CBC SHOULD MIRROR THEIR OWN STUPIDITY AND PLAY ALONG.
NOTE: During that meeting it was revealed that Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson’s pet, the Sterling Senior Center, wants to build an addition!
GEE, I wonder if the Council on Aging will hire Weston & Sampson as project engineers and Vertex as project manager and run the per-square-foot cost for THAT addition up to $912 as they have for the Sterling D.P.W. Re-packaged Garage Mahal Boondoggle.
ALL OF THIS IS JUST A REMINDER THAT STERLING IS RUN BY OUT-OF-CONTROL SPINELESS BUFFOONS.
REMEMBER: YOU GET WHAT YOU ELECT.
Stay tuned.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 