All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘Home Rule Charter’
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The 0.0% and 0.9% Elector Petitions Did Not Lower Moody’s Bond Rating
Question: Did the 0.0% and 0.9% elector petitions reduce Tiverton’s bond rating from Moody’s Investor Services? Here we go again with the bond-rating blame game. In order to refinance nearly $8 million of its debt, the Town of Tiverton asked Moody’s Investors Services to rate …
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First Tiverton Glen-Related Recall Petition Pulled
As the local heat grew around the Town Council’s vote on whether to change the Tiverton Comprehensive Community Plan to accommodate the proposed Tiverton Glen multi-use development, promises of recall elections flared in town and online. Word of the first recall petition actually pulled does not target council …
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A Kindergarten Correction I’m Thrilled to Make
At last night’s meeting of the Tiverton School Committee, during a discussion of the possibility of resurrecting all-day kindergarten for the 2015-2016 school year, I distributed a flier with four budget reasons for moving forward with the program. Although elected officials and employees of the school …
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School Surpluses and Special Ed Projections
If anybody else in Tiverton analyzed the town’s annual audit the moment it was posted online, perhaps you’ve been joining me in shaking your head ever since. According to the audit from last year, the municipal government had $2.2 million in its “unassigned” fund. Of …
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The 0% Budget’s Effect on Tiverton’s Bond Rating
There is only a sliver of truth to Tiverton officials’ comments about the town’s recent credit rating from Standard & Poor’s: The rating agency does consider the amount of money sitting in the town’s account when it comes up with a rating, and (surprise, surprise) …
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Divisiveness and Misreading
Some anonymous poster on the Tiverton 1st–related Facebook page, Tiverton Fact or Fiction, was intrigued to discover that I had written about appointing the next-highest vote getter to Budget Committee vacancies the last time the subject came up. The content of the Facebook post was …
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Personnel Board Applicant Says Town Council Conniving
In the midst of turmoil over the Tiverton Town Council’s determination to appoint a specific person to be a full-time planner for the town, resident Donna Cook applied, as a volunteer, to fill one of two vacancies on the Personnel Board. The Personnel Board selects …
