Archive for December, 2012
12.31.12
Posted in Cohasset Selectmen at 4:54 PM by Tanna K
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 of which involve Milanoski in some fashion were: Milanoski’s latest contract, a discussion with action being requested on a member of the board of selectmen who has allegedly released confidential information to the general (sic) public, and how to spend money on technology upgrades and security because the illegal town manager screwed up the warrant article.
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Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Karen Quigley at 9:49 AM by Karen Quigley
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 and to extend Mr. Milanoski’s “perfectly legal”contract.
The facts suggest the opposite.
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12.29.12
Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Tanna Kasperowicz at 11:58 AM by Tanna K
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 manager for no cause. They may just not like the color of his hair, may not like his eyebrows. The article passed and for the past 15 years we’ve barely given it a second thought.
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12.28.12
Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Tanna Kasperowicz at 3:52 PM by Tanna K
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 this document is on your Jan. 2nd agenda, scheduled for 7:25 p.m.
As it has already been released, it should now be in the public domain. This is a request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law (M. G. L. Chapter 66, Section 10).
As you may be aware, the Public Records Law requires you to provide me with a written response within 10 calendar days. If you cannot comply with my request, you are statutorily required to provide an explanation in writing.
I currently have a credit of $17.68 at the Board of Selectmen’s office. You may send me anelectronic copy of this document and deduct the cost from my credit.
Very truly yours,
Tanna Kasperowicz
Publisher
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Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Tanna Kasperowicz at 11:58 AM by Tanna K
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 Plaza in Quincy. (Tinytown Unleashed has not been provided a copy of the letter.)
Lehane represents the City of Attleboro with regard to its case against Michael Milanoski, who currently serves as Cohasset’s illegal town manager.
Lehane is fighting a judgement of the civil service commission in July 2012 ordering the reinstatement of Michael Milanoski to his former position of executive director of the Attleboro Redevelopment Authority, with back pay and all benefits retroactive to November, 2009.
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Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Governance, Tanna Kasperowicz at 1:19 AM by Tanna K
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. Perhaps the acting town manager has discovered another money reservoir, as he is requesting “action” on this item.
At 7:25 p.m: Selectmen will discuss an unauthorized release of confidential /attorney client privileged information from a member of the board of selectmen to the general (sic) public. So on Jan. 2 selectmen will go after one of their own. It is thought that the selectman in question is Martha Gjesteby, who is currently in the hospital recovering from surgery. When we called Gjesteby late yesterday to see if she had any comments regarding this agenda item she said not at this time. All we have to say about this is – if this document was released to the general (sic) public, we want a copy. Milanoski has requested action on this item.
At 7:45 p.m.: Selectmen are slated to sign yet another contract with Milanoski, who has not yet been here a year. We think this will something like the 4th contract they have discussed having with him. This one will probably be the acting town manager contracted discussed at selectmen’s last meeting. If so, it will start July 1 and end Dec. 2013. It will replace the illegal town manager’s contract he currently holds with various “unenforceable” sections. Yet another contract Selectmen had planned to offer Milanoski, one which would have retained him through June 2015, seems to have gone by the by.
At 8 p.m. there will be an executive session to discuss non-union and union negotiations. It is our understanding that Milanoski has not yet concluded any negotiations. I guess when you brag about the $1MM the town made this year and then ask the unions to take a 0% increase, your request falls upon deaf ears.
After the executive session there will be a public discussion of the executive session.
Weird.
The Governance Committee will meet at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 3rd at the Cohasset Middle School. Several town officials claim selectmen may try to slip a quickie special town meeting into the winter-spring months in order to get a second shot at changes to the Town Manager’s Act, which would give them a third shot at the Annual meeting, if needed. Governance does appear to be trying to bring revisions to the act to a quick end, perhaps this is the reason.
This ain’t no way to run a town.
Happy New Year.
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12.24.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas at 3:47 PM by Bob Monty
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.
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12.19.12
Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Governance, Tanna Kasperowicz at 12:52 AM by Tanna K
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 question – under what legal authority have you been running the Town since June 26, 2012?
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12.18.12
Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Karen Quigley at 10:32 AM by Karen Quigley
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 any of these purposes.
For those who think we’ve been nitpicking over process and procedure, I offer this as a prime example of the real-life consequences of not complying with municipal law.
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12.15.12
Posted in Cohasset Selectmen, Tom Wolf at 12:53 PM by Tom Wolf
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; not only are they right, they are the only ones who are right and, in fact, who have or will ever been right.
This outrageously arrogant attitude revealed itself at Special Town Meeting when the Governance Committee, carrying the tainted water of the selectmen, would not, then could not, fully and accurately answer the simple question of whether the DOR had recommended against piecemeal changes in the Town Managers Act. The eventual answer seemed to be, “yes, but they were wrong.”
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