STILL KICKING

Bad year all around for city services and taxpayers. I've never seen worse service on plowing
streets in 30 years. Must be a management style of using prisoners to clear the
roads and pathways of snow. 

The West End is still hard to maneuver through due to the roads crumbling and the corners still piled
so high that you cannot see to enter traffic. No way to walk anywhere from the West End. Even Orange, Lime Street and Horton Street were still single lane when I recently visited them.

Valuations down and taxes (fees) still on the rise, still. no split tax for businesses, yet the services provided are not equal.

Spending still uncontrolled. Some Massachusetts communities sending out layoff
notices just to cover their Arses with Unions and upcoming budgets. Wonder what
Newburyport is going to do? More taxes for less services, but we still cannot control the investments
into selective programs/ projects that do very little for the common taxpayer except make the political crowd look good for trying to hold the city lines on spending without cutting their own special needs programs that keep their wards coming out to vote for them. Unfortunately the majority of Newburyport voters can’t be forced to take the time to see what our representatives in city government are doing with the budget until they raise the taxes to cover their tracks.

I think term limits would be a wonderful thing to break the cycle of government
servicing the public as a whole. But I hear that my opinion doesn't count.

Discovery of pre-Revolutionary War wharf may delay project » Local News » NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

Discovery of pre-Revolutionary War wharf may delay project » Local News » NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA
As with most offerings from this administration there are accusations of ‘cover up’ and ‘hiding information’ on this discovery.
But, as I have said in the past, most of the ‘FLASH’ of this Mayor is from ignorance and lack of procedural knowledge, to apply favoritism.
I don’t think this would even be a question if Brendan O’Regan was still leading the DPS. NOW, this will be just another COST to the rate payers, even if it is another loan from another entity, due to ‘management styles’ of a first time Mayor. Add all these misunderstandings u and we are going to pay through higher rates for things that don’t concern Sewer Operations. Will the Sewer Commission or the City exempt Newbury for their costs in this mismanaged department? Will this Mayor rebate costs to ratepayers that have paid in full for many years and now cover those who will not pay? Can she? As this is an enterprise Department run by a commission!

Add this mistake of reporting to the mess at the industrial park when the drains were destroyed due to ignorance and attitude! Causing our own DPW to be put under an ‘order of conditions’ because of substandard leadership. And they are expected to oversee others that are allowed to work in our city.
I think it is time that the Mayor readjust her management style and dismiss these goofs that she puts our safety and taxes into and hire qualified personnel to run the city.
LAMO

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Since the Mayor and the Daily News  want the shock effect of headlines, yet comments are restricted to post comments to the story, I have my own outlet to write my opinions. If one does not like what is posted here, they can comment or just leave and believe everything the Daily Snooze and City Mayor puts out in the public with no chance of correction or rebuttal. As I cannot post on the Daily News site due to the editor blocking my opinions at their site.

ildivo,
As per your moniker,I do not remember 'growing up with you' as I did not grow up here in Newburyport.
It is true that some consider their 'city Jobs as a gravy train and would do ANYTHING to keep working on the doll, you will find a few honest employees that say no to being used or abused. There are a few of us that Will not take the public for a ride or allow others to do so also. That is why we 'Boobs' leave good jobs.
Maybe some 'boobs' cannot work under the pressures of dishonest politicians and their relatives. There are still some employees that are honest to their selves prior to questionable orders from dishonest leaders that have the protection of wrongful actions and procedures in mind. Now the statements on the 'legal' recordings will be made public, as they always were as part of meeting records. Kept on a City Sewer secured Hard Drive.

As the Sewer Commission required (and I believe may still require the recording of their meetings and business) all of their meetings to be taped since prior to 2000. These tapes and electronic records are transcribed to minutes and the minutes are not verbatim. The not so secret recordings are for research only.
But, lets leave the issue for the court room and a jury to hear and decide.


OldeTymeNbptDude Today 08:19 AM
All of the recordings are public records of open meetings. You may ask for them. Some are interdepartmental meetings where many issues were discussed among managers and personnel.
Others were Executive Sessions of commissions and should not have been accessed by even the mayor.
But, when one plays GOD………..with a very personal outcome planned.