A Response to Assistant to the Clerk Treasurer’s Assistant Melissa Goodell
Ms. Goodell posted in the Warehan Village Soup on November 11, 2017,
Wareham Village Soup:
"Saying she [Lisa Morales] needs a fact checker is an understatement. Where does she get her information??? If she "knows" all she's stated then how on earth can she complain there's no transparency?
The taxpayers do not pay 99% of Insurance premiums for the employees.
The Onset Fire District has always paid the Town of Wareham a stipend for processing the tax bills and collecting payment. The voters approve it every year.
To state the Prudential Committee would negotiate a contract without knowing the cost is absurd.
The Town of Wareham has not had responsibility for Fire Service in Onset since 2000???? The Onset Fire District was formed in 1890...a few years before 2000.
I have read your blog of misinformation call "Onset All Together". I can't figure out what your objective is. You spout out items as if they were fact in a hope that it will be believed. Either you intentionally misinterpret facts to cause problems or you do not listen when items are presented. Either way, you are a toxin to the system, not an asset.
I could easily rebut your other statements of fact but I'm hoping the readers get the gist."
MGOODELL is the assistant to the clerk-treasurer and therefore should be able to provide all of the facts. She should also be disciplined for name-calling a taxpayer in a public forum. At the annual meeting, we were told the District pays 99% of premiums and they had to reduce it from 100%. I have filed a FOIA request to get the “facts.” I submitted a written request to Chairman Kleuber along with a printout of all of the Onset All Together posts regarding the District, and asked him to correct any errors of fact and I would print an erratum. No response. I asked at the Nov. 2nd meeting the total cost of the negotiated increase. The answer was “I suppose we could ask Mary to cost it out.” They did in fact ratify the increases without knowing what they cost. This is on the record. The amount of the one year increase was provided at the November 9 meeting “because someone asked for it.” The timing of and need for a Special Meeting was entirely in the Prudential Committe’s purview: they tabled and put off the MOA reached months ago due to their attorney’s lack of response on drafting then disseminating the agreement. They could have ratified a few days later and held the meeting the following week, if in fact such a meeting is necessary. The union did not expect such a move. I called several other towns and the state: if they held a special meeting every time they settled a contract we’d be meeting many times a year, and the PC claims they did not overspend on what we approved in the spring. This is all on the record, which of course you can’t see without a FOIA request. My comments, and other citizens, are incomplete or not existent in Ms Goodell’s minutes as approved by the PC.In the By-Laws of the Onset Fire District dated May 19, 2014, under Important Historical Notes, number 12, states in part at the Special District Meeting in February 2000 the District...annexed areas of the town...The Town was no longer obligated to provide fire protection to any area of the Town of Wareham. This is recorded as Chapter 106 of the Acts of 2000, approved on June 17, 2000. Ms Goodell please explain your comments.
Ms. Goodell also participated in the PC’s illegal decision not to allow citizens to submit an article to the warrant for the special meeting as provided in the bylaws and MGL VII, c. 48, §66. If a Plymouth County Superior Court Judge agrees, they will have to reopen the warrant.
The money they will ask us to approve for the repair of well four cannot, as I understand it, be used from the source they requested. That money must be used to lower our rates or Extend the current water system, not repair. That money must come from the $100,000 just released to the water commissioners under threat of a lawsuit. Any such vote may be deemed illegal. We could, for instance, with a petition of only 50 rate payers, put on the warrant to establish a reduced rate for people 65 and over who fall below 80% of the federal poverty level as other water district do. But we are blocked from submitting articles.
At 6:00 PM on the 21st there is a separation ate meeting to decide whether residential and commercial rates remain identical. For instance, should a big-box store or motel pay the same rate (and potentially write off as a business expense) as an individual home owner? Did you know we have a choice?
The clerk-treasurer stated the meeting on the 21st will last 15-20 minutes. They expect no push-back from the taxpayers, even if anyone who does not work for the District shows up. They will then “reconvene” at Stevie’s bar they said on the record.
These folks are compensated, not volunteers, and handle multiple millions of dollars. Yet they will not even reveal the expiration dates of their terms. The meetings need to be televised to prevent this kind of nonsense.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant for any “disease” Melissa Goodell.Nobody should have to struggle this hard to have public information go to the tax paying public. Onset, please come to the Nov. 21 meeting at the VFW. Anyone can attend, but only voters on the rolls can vote. x
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Wareham Village Soup:
"Saying she [Lisa Morales] needs a fact checker is an understatement. Where does she get her information??? If she "knows" all she's stated then how on earth can she complain there's no transparency?
The taxpayers do not pay 99% of Insurance premiums for the employees.
The Onset Fire District has always paid the Town of Wareham a stipend for processing the tax bills and collecting payment. The voters approve it every year.
To state the Prudential Committee would negotiate a contract without knowing the cost is absurd.
The Town of Wareham has not had responsibility for Fire Service in Onset since 2000???? The Onset Fire District was formed in 1890...a few years before 2000.
I have read your blog of misinformation call "Onset All Together". I can't figure out what your objective is. You spout out items as if they were fact in a hope that it will be believed. Either you intentionally misinterpret facts to cause problems or you do not listen when items are presented. Either way, you are a toxin to the system, not an asset.
I could easily rebut your other statements of fact but I'm hoping the readers get the gist."
MGOODELL is the assistant to the clerk-treasurer and therefore should be able to provide all of the facts. She should also be disciplined for name-calling a taxpayer in a public forum. At the annual meeting, we were told the District pays 99% of premiums and they had to reduce it from 100%. I have filed a FOIA request to get the “facts.” I submitted a written request to Chairman Kleuber along with a printout of all of the Onset All Together posts regarding the District, and asked him to correct any errors of fact and I would print an erratum. No response. I asked at the Nov. 2nd meeting the total cost of the negotiated increase. The answer was “I suppose we could ask Mary to cost it out.” They did in fact ratify the increases without knowing what they cost. This is on the record. The amount of the one year increase was provided at the November 9 meeting “because someone asked for it.” The timing of and need for a Special Meeting was entirely in the Prudential Committe’s purview: they tabled and put off the MOA reached months ago due to their attorney’s lack of response on drafting then disseminating the agreement. They could have ratified a few days later and held the meeting the following week, if in fact such a meeting is necessary. The union did not expect such a move. I called several other towns and the state: if they held a special meeting every time they settled a contract we’d be meeting many times a year, and the PC claims they did not overspend on what we approved in the spring. This is all on the record, which of course you can’t see without a FOIA request. My comments, and other citizens, are incomplete or not existent in Ms Goodell’s minutes as approved by the PC.In the By-Laws of the Onset Fire District dated May 19, 2014, under Important Historical Notes, number 12, states in part at the Special District Meeting in February 2000 the District...annexed areas of the town...The Town was no longer obligated to provide fire protection to any area of the Town of Wareham. This is recorded as Chapter 106 of the Acts of 2000, approved on June 17, 2000. Ms Goodell please explain your comments.
Ms. Goodell also participated in the PC’s illegal decision not to allow citizens to submit an article to the warrant for the special meeting as provided in the bylaws and MGL VII, c. 48, §66. If a Plymouth County Superior Court Judge agrees, they will have to reopen the warrant.
The money they will ask us to approve for the repair of well four cannot, as I understand it, be used from the source they requested. That money must be used to lower our rates or Extend the current water system, not repair. That money must come from the $100,000 just released to the water commissioners under threat of a lawsuit. Any such vote may be deemed illegal. We could, for instance, with a petition of only 50 rate payers, put on the warrant to establish a reduced rate for people 65 and over who fall below 80% of the federal poverty level as other water district do. But we are blocked from submitting articles.At 6:00 PM on the 21st there is a separation ate meeting to decide whether residential and commercial rates remain identical. For instance, should a big-box store or motel pay the same rate (and potentially write off as a business expense) as an individual home owner? Did you know we have a choice?
The clerk-treasurer stated the meeting on the 21st will last 15-20 minutes. They expect no push-back from the taxpayers, even if anyone who does not work for the District shows up. They will then “reconvene” at Stevie’s bar they said on the record.
These folks are compensated, not volunteers, and handle multiple millions of dollars. Yet they will not even reveal the expiration dates of their terms. The meetings need to be televised to prevent this kind of nonsense.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant for any “disease” Melissa Goodell.Nobody should have to struggle this hard to have public information go to the tax paying public. Onset, please come to the Nov. 21 meeting at the VFW. Anyone can attend, but only voters on the rolls can vote. x
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