There is an old expression: Cutting off your nose to spite your face. That is exactly what this town’s proposed budget does. The roles of town planner, grant coordinator and sustainability director not only enhance many aspects of our town, they fight back against climate catastrophe, find ways to maintain shared resources and bring in much needed funds!
Between them Donna Cotterell and Logan Casey have brought hundreds of thousands of dollars to this town for both necessary and enhancing projects. None of that is possible without their positions. What are we thinking? Do we live in a community or individual bunkers, each with its own trash collection, portable power stations, generators and cement mixers to repair roads? It is time to dig deep into our pockets and pay the taxes that will allow town services and personnel to remain vital and recommit ourselves to the concept of community.
Judith Black
Prospect Street
