31 Dec 2012
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Sometime during the afternoon of Dec. 31st., Cohasset’s illegal town manager cancelled the board’s Jan. 2nd. meeting at which the following was scheduled to be discussed. It is assumed that the subjects to be considered on the Jan. 2 warrant will now be deferred to the Jan. 8th regularly scheduled meeting. Those subjects were, all [...]
31 Dec 2012
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This Wednesday’s BoS agenda item for 7:45 is ‘Acting Town Manager Contract – Action Requested’. I have a problem with that if, as Chair Paul Carlson stated at the last BoS Meeting, “The Town Meeting vote on Article 14 has nothing to do with the existing contract.” Their intent is clearly to ignore Town Meeting [...]
29 Dec 2012
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In 1997 ten citizens asked annual town meeting for a professional Town Manager. In the citizens’ desire to “sell” the Town Manager Act to citizens and town officials alike, we decided to make him as easy to get rid of as possible. We said in our 1997 petition article that selectmen could fire the town [...]
28 Dec 2012
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Friday, December 28, 2012 Dear Members of the Cohasset Board of Selectmen and illegal town manager Mike Milanoski I am requesting a copy of the document that a member of your board of selectmen allegedly (alleged by you) gave to the general (sic) public on an issue not described. The discussion of the leakage of [...]
28 Dec 2012
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Cohasset Selectmen received a lengthy letter from Selectman Martha Gjesteby late Thursday afternoon that allegedly details various complaints she has over the board’s and the acting town manager’s handling of the town’s business. Gjesteby sent a cc of that letter to her attorney, Michael C. Lehane of Murphy, Hesse Toomey & Lehane, of Crown Colony [...]
28 Dec 2012
Selectmen originally planned to have their first fistfight of the New Year on January 8th, but Selectmen and their acting town manager moved it up a week to Wednesday, Jan. 2. At 7:05 p.m.: Money for technology and security upgrades failed at the special meeting when the warrant article 6 was found to be deficient. [...]
24 Dec 2012
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By Bob Montgomery Thomas I take exception to the December 22 Patriot Ledger commentary by US Rep. William Keating suggesting it’s time to ban so-called assault weapons.
19 Dec 2012
On Wed., 12:27 a.m., Select Chair Paul Carlson sent the media a press release from Town Counsel Paul DeRensis of Deutsch Williams that basically says Milanoski’s contract is illegal. DeRensis, however, says it very nicely. TownCounsel Be assured, Selectmen, Tinytown Unleashed will proceed with its request for a declaratory judgment from Norfolk Superior Court regarding the [...]
18 Dec 2012
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The ‘spin machine’ at Town Hall is working overtime in regard to Article 6 at the Special Town Meeting. This article was brought forward by the illegal Town Manager for an appropriation of nearly $1million. However, it was not properly presented in the warrant and therefore could not be voted. The result: no money for [...]
15 Dec 2012
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The Special Town Meeting voting results and just a few indicators in the subsequent days reveal a slightly revised posture from our selectmen; before, they simply operated on the premise that they, and only they, possessed the wisdom to determine what was best for our Town. Now they have added a dimension to this position; [...]
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