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Truth About Hammond School?

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 Not a lot of truth out there about anything to do with this town-owned property. The Boys and Girls Club of New Bedford claims they broke the lease because of the poor condition of the school. There's a lot that needs to be done there, the town has let it go to ruin. The playground is unsafe and I've made numerous complaints about it. Yet as a town-owned facility it must be put to highest and best use by public processes. Instead, Derek Sullivan made a side deal giving the Wareham Tigers Athletic Association rent-free use of the same interior areas as the club. There was no bidding process. The WTAA is supposed to pay some unspecified amount of utilities but as of the date of a recent FOIA request had not paid a dime.  Here are a number of documents related to this deal BGC New Bedford and RFP, deeds https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EMdnErnwGFqme0JAiLcEXkXs-Win61Ib/view?usp=drivesdk License for WTAA  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUdYwkrBMAozBeY7_gdENqqR8lSJW5Th/view?...

Onset Site of State-Wide Rally Honoring the Land

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 ONSET, MA: On July 31, 2021 , in Onset and Greenfield, MA rallies will be held to highlight the environmental injustice of clear-cutting forest for land-based industrial solar arrays.  The event will bring attention to the thousands of acres of mature forest destroyed in a rush to realize cash benefits from the state's misguided renewable energy incentives.   Onset VFW, Gibbs Ball Field Rd, Onset, MA  1-4 PM Fearing Hill Forest is slated for destruction. Sign the Petition! We demand a moratorium on solar subsidies and approvals unless they meet these standards : On rooftops or existing infrastructureIf ground-mounted: limited to 5 acres or less and land not cleared within the last five years, and no impact on :                 • Biodiversity including plants and animals listed under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act,                 • Forests, protected open space or agricult...

Overtime Payments to Managers

 When an employee moves to management they generally understand the change from an hourly wage to salary and benefit packages. Onset Fire decided to award two management employees nearly $50,000.00 in additional compensation. The annual meeting did not approve this.  OT calculation https://docs.google.com/file/d/1lkOssSe-bASm0IVX8HlEjH-lQgOS_fwX/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msexcel Contract  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NbuRB0onRAN7mHMgs62i3iY6bYwOxIXb/view?usp=drivesdk District response  https://docs.google.com/file/d/1fMVk-G0rQ3DoDrt9jr3fAetSqjEmFz4w/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword

Onset Fire District Closes Nominations and Warrant without Notice to the Public. Again.

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 Despite my many requests for dates, the warrant closed. The ratepayers have a RIGHT to insert warrant articles! Onset, when will you have had enough? 2021 Warrant

State Looking Into Alan Slavin and Judith Whiteside Campaign Finance Records

 Mr. Slavin did not file any required paperwork with the town since 2018 and Ms. Whiteside appears to have a discrepancy. Campaign Finance from Town Thank you for your recent email.  We will review the information that you forwarded to us shortly.   Please understand that we will not inform you of what actions we are taking regarding this information until we have completed our review.  Our procedures require strict confidentiality to preserve your legitimate privacy concerns as well as the privacy of others and to maintain our effectiveness as an investigatory agency.  We may, however, contact you during our review and you should not hesitate to contact us if you have additional information.   We appreciate your interest in the campaign finance law.       Thanks,     Michael J. Joyce Financial Investigator & Public Finance Administrator Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance One Ashburton Place Boston, MA...

FXM and NOTOS Group Economic Data De-bunked

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  The "data" accepted and repeated by the Wareham Selectmen, Finance Committee and Planning Board was built on a house of cards. VOTE NO on April 10 Noon, Spillane Field You must be present to vote! REPORT ON WAREHAM RE-ZONING PLAN BY NOTOS GROUP Frederic B. Jennings, Jr., Ph.D. 30 March 2021  Executive Summary of Findings and Opinions  EconoLogistics was retained in March 2021 to examine and evaluate the NOTOS Group’s re-zoning proposal  of ecologically sensitive land in northeastern Wareham, MA from R-130 to a Hospitality, Recreational and  Entertainment Overlay District (HREOD). This proposed business development project is based on a claim that  current zoning and COVID-19 will unduly burden Wareham municipal budgets on a perpetual long-term basis.  A set of studies by FXM Associates has raised concerns for Wareham’s fiscal resilience, supporting this re-zoning  plan as a business solution. The present report examines this argument and the eco...

Protect Onset's Water: Vote No on April 10, 2021

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  Onset Water Commissioners Question Re-Zoning