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The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
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Background Documents from the TTA Lawsuits
At the center of recent controversy about the appointing of a new solicitor are the three more-or-less identical lawsuits filed by members of the Tiverton Taxpayers Association (TTA) before last year's financial town referendum (FTR). Some residents have expressed an interest in more details, so I thought I'd consolidate all the documents in one place. All documents are the latest that I have available. The controversy arose at the April 23, 2018, meeting of the Board of Canvassers, which was called in order to approve the questions that would appear on the ballot of the May 19 FTR. Here are some relevant documents: Proposed resolutions (Note: I'm not 100% sure these are the final resolutions or that their order perfectly matches the number references in the other documents. However, any differences of language would be minimal, and the numbers can be correlated using context.) Agenda Minutes Justin Katz's write-up It is worth noting a few things about that meeting. First, it is the only Board of Canvassers meeting that Town Solicitor Anthony DeSisto has attended in at least the last two years and that, curiously, multiple Town Council members were in attendance, as well. Second, the solicitor advised Board of Canvassers member DeEtta Moran that she should not vote on some of the resolutions because she had collected signatures for them (even though she seemed inclined to vote to block them). When Member Jeannie Veegh declined to second any motions to block the resolutions from the ballot, Mr. DeSisto said…
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