30 Jan 2013
It is good that Cohasset Selectmen voted 3-1 (Leland Jenkins) with one abstention (Martha Gjesteby) to not file a second ethics complaint against Selectman Martha Gjesteby, who is trying to recover from hip surgery, no thanks to her board. Selectman Diane Kennedy set the mood and tense of the 9:15 agenda item that was discussed [...]
18 Jan 2013
Cohasset Selectman Martha K. Gjesteby has filed an Open Meeting Law Complaint against her board of selectmen alleging that on Dec. 18th the agenda topic for an executive session did not comply with the requirement of the specificity under the Open Meeting Law. Gjesteby said, the posted meeting notice must include a listing of topics [...]
16 Jan 2013
Acting Town Manager Mike Milanoski’s new contract signed and effective Jan. 15, 2013 is an amazing one for a town that has the 10th highest tax rate in the state and wants town unions to take no raises this year — after Milanoski and other town officials bragging for months about the $1MM it made [...]
14 Jan 2013
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It is like Groundhog Day. The Movie in which a man relives the same day over and over again until he gets it right. He is never told exactly what he is to do in order to stop the repetition. But then he begins to notice that when he is nice to people he moves [...]
9 Jan 2013
It appears selectmen plan to sign a “legal” acting town manager contract with Mike Milanoski in the near future, unless they shop for a different opinion and offer him a town manager’s contract in March. Town Counsel Paul DeRensis says he cannot currently step into a town manager’s contract until he is separated from the [...]
9 Jan 2013
Selectwoman Martha Gjesteby will return the favor… On Tuesday Cohasset Selectmen voted to turn in Selectman Martha Gjesteby to the Attorney General for having allegedly violated the criminal conflict of interest law by sharing a confidential ”privileged” document with a member of the public. Directly after selectmen voted to turn in Gjesteby she turned the [...]
9 Jan 2013
This is becoming so, so predictable. Whenever the Selectmen gather their remaining supporters en masse – an apparent attempt to show public support – get ready to be sold a bill of goods. This was the less than carefully orchestrated attempt to, once again, sell Milanoski to Cohasset residents as the perfect choice for Town [...]
8 Jan 2013
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The Cohasset Board of Selectmen has definitely come down a peg or two in the past week. Actually, there are no more pegs left to come down. Former Cohasset Selectman Ted Carr was caught going to the state trough too many times and got “bumped” by State Auditor Suzanne Bump. Your board of selectmen is [...]
5 Jan 2013
Former Cohasset Selectman Ted Carr, who is being sued by former Cohasset town manager Mike Coughlin for having violated the Massachusetts Whistleblower Statute, the terms of the Cohasset Town Manager Enabling Statute and the Mass. Open Meeting Law, now has State Auditor Suzanne Bump barking up his tree. According to third party reports, Bump has [...]
5 Jan 2013
Former Cohasset Selectman Ted Carr, who is being sued by former Cohasset town manager Mike Coughlin for having violated the Massachusetts Whistleblower Statute, the terms of the Cohasset Town Manager Enabling Statute and the Mass. Open Meeting Law, now has State Auditor Suzanne Bump barking up his tree. According to third party reports, Bump has [...]
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