Maybe NO will Finally Mean NO when it comes zeroing out General Ledger items in a budget prepared by a Budget Committee. As longer term readers know, I was on my hamlet’s BudComm for three – three year terms (see “Tales from the BudComm“) and I had discovered a technical flaw in the budget process … Read more
On Tuesday I went down to Concord to testify on behalf of passing HB576, my “No means No” when Budget Committee use their fiscal policy setting Powers to tell Selectmen and School Boards that they don’t approve of those “purposes”. I thought that I had prepared well, spoke well (I did ask some of the … Read more
When an NHMA lobbyist, paid in part by my taxes, is lobbying AGAINST MY BEST interests, that’s wrong. It’s immoral. That’s why Cordell Johnston, a New Hampshire Municipal Association lobbyist – is now the Poster Boy for towns to stop paying dues to the New Hampshire Municipal Association with our property taxes. If our Selectmen … Read more
Last night I received a call from NH State Rep Harry Bean – my representative, former member of the Budget Committee, and a sponsor of my bill, HB576 which is meant to be a technical fix to RSA32, the Municipal Budget Law. Turns out, the NH House Municipal and County Government Committee is hearing testimony … Read more