Tag: No means No

HB576 lives on as HB459!

January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 Skip

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

Son of HB576 lives! Maybe NO will Finally Mean NO

November 30, 2020 Skip

When a Budget Committee decides to zero out a General Ledger account line item in a budget, it is supposed to be No means No! For that line item, you can’t spend a penny on it. I wrote House Bill 576 (HB576) because I learned that is not how it really worked.

Tales from the BudComm – c’est la, I guess

March 7, 2019 Skip

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

Tales from the BudComm: Cordell Johnston, NHMA lobbyist – tried to fly and ended up like Icarus

March 6, 2019March 5, 2019 Skip

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