You need to contact Belknap County Delegation Chair Harry Bean: Email: froggytouttaint@aol.com Phone: (603) 455-2993. He’s responsible for this.
In NH, the various Counties, all County budgets start with the Commissioners. Here in Belknap, I’m betting that they didn’t just throw the kitchen sink into their budget, they put your street’s entire collection of kitchen sinks as well. And then smiled after watching this County’s dysfunctional “budget committee” process.
And NH State Rep, Harry “Cutting Corners” Bean is the Chair and he’s responsible for this mess AND for hoovering more of your money out of your wallet than needed. Doubt me? If you live in Belknap County, ask him this question:
Why is Merrimack County’s budget going up only 1% and mine is going up over 35%??? How can they do it right and you can’t???
That’s what will happen come April 1 if the Delegation’s “investigation” of the Commissioners’ budget isn’t completed by then. Utter failure. And what is just unbelievable, given that Harry Bean was a member of the Gilford Budget Committee for years and KNOWS how budgets should be handled and has been in the County Delegation for years (he’s a multi-term NH State Rep), he went through the County budget multiple times.
The first mistake was putting a brand new freshman Rep to be the “BudComm Chair” that had never done a County Budget before. He was elected improperly because Bean’s Band of Right To Know Law Misfits decided not to listen to the more experienced Reps, who have done this before, and didn’t bother to Follow the Law in properly “noticing” the meeting so that WE, the Public, could attend. And then did it twice more which got the Delegation into moretrouble and with their unforced errors and now have all but run out their own clock.
There’s a lot more there but if you prefer that your money, in these troubled times, stay in YOUR pocket, contact Chair Harry Bean and tell him NO INCREASES!
Email: froggytouttaint@aol.com
Phone: (603) 455-2993
Time to get involved! If Bean & Company aren’t going to look out for you and your family, you need to! Call and email him and tell him to stop cutting corners and get his job done – and done right! He’s also failed to post the budget at BelknapCounty.org so that WE can see it!
And contact your NH State Reps as well. Their contact info, all of them here in Belknap, can be found here.
And remember, the Democrat PAC called Citizens for Belknap is responsible, in part, for this fiasco!
