The and more I am seeing of the balance sheets of the City of Newburyport , I am finding the process of mismanagement and the path to over spending behind the scenes emerging more so than usual. How about a public internal audit? Soon?
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2008 report on $125.00 expected increase in ewer Bills Old news, new is what $350.00? Is that with drainage system set for waterfront properties? less than 10% will see benefit on the dollars 7000 will be charged.
http://www.cityofnewburyport.com/pdf/dps/Neighborhood%20Meeting%20No%20%201%20Notice%20Apr%2013%202011.pdf More uncounted expenses overseen by a GED Director and a diminished Sewer Commission. the Financial leadership of the Sewer Commission, Melanie Hession and Kate Muray were dismissed by the management style of the Mayor.
For years the Water and Sewer Commissions have set rates that provide for the operations of the Water and Sewer Departments service. By Law the commissions are nonpolitical (or where until the Wicked Witch of the West took over). I see now why she needed Brendan O'Regan dismissed along with his administrative assistant (me).
How about the Mayor publicizing the list of non utility payers? Lets see some of the high and mighty elected officals, commission members and friends of the system that have had over due utility bills for years now. It is the law and is being avoided by this administration.
Going over city line item expenditures for FY 10 and the present FY 11 and I find that the Ratepayers are funding Newburyport Drainage issues, with funds allocated by ratepayers outside of Newburyport! How fair is that to the Sewer and Water users in Newbury? Thanks Mayor, now I see the light. Newburyport cannot support Social Services on the tax base alone, and a new drainage order from our own good Uncle Sam, so movement to change the way these commissions operate and oversee is before the Newburyport City Council. Letting the shortfalls in the Water and Sewer Departments be covered by raising the rates and not the taxes. Gone are the days that the Sewer and Water Commissioners sought to protect the Public Health by assuring that politics did not get in the way of the financial needs of providing the services. Now your Utility Bills will compete with which ever program the elected Mayor and Council deems as needy (paid parking for special interests, doggie parks becoming the need for kitty parks and then more Kiddy parks, . With the New construction and updating of the Water and Sewer systems bring gigantic increases in rates, count on it, and no educated managers overseeing the rate (er.. Tax) payers interests anyway. Counting on Tony to comprehend the financial needs of the city with his GED from Mass Ed is a stretch of even Dona’s management style. And the Goofs she p[laced in management positions at a cost of who knows how much is embarrassing enough. One from Haverhill that does not have the education that was advertized for his old drain system manager position and the other that was hired on the old nepotism system sets Newburyport back dozens of years in the evolutionary chain from the old days when a relative who could not find work anywhere else ended up on the city books. Like a few of the close relatives employed now. So who will notice a few bucks off the top for non Water and Sewer issues. Certainly not the ratepayers from Newbury. Who is going to represent them? Who would not doubt that these employees would lie and cheat to retain positions that they could not keep if an honest manager caught up with them? What kick backs will go to Newbury’s drainage needs or other give away programs they might not need?
Bend over and grab your ankles, again, when O'Brien and Holaday pass this one on to your rates the rest of the council will follow along, blindly as usual. Each seeing the positive cash flow as necessary.
With no one watching the spending, the DPW has become rich enough to pay uneducated managers enough to use pencils in accounting for your money since O'Regan has been gone. No more monthly reports to the commissions, only to the Mayor and Auditor!
See you in court..........soon.
An embarrassing turn out at a Boston Labor meeting last week may send Dona back to Portsmouth sooner than she expects. What will she do when she will need to explain her mis-actions publically to the voters. Her hate has no place to vent, and doesn’t belong in Newburyport anyway. More meetings are planned, I hope she is up to the challenge, physically and mentally so we don’t lose even more tax dollars to settlements that should not have had the opportunity to grow into law suits under good solid management practices that were in place for years. One by one her minions are giving her up to rid their minds of involvement and loss of supporting her ‘likes’.
Do the Taxpayers or the Rate payers of Newburyport really want politics’ directing their sanitary systems operations? I think not! It will take an act of the State to enact, so let your representatives in ouncil and State know of your concerns before Dona is seeaking yet another turmoil term. Soon, because it is being ramrodded through City Council as I write.
