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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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Durfee Should Budget for the Living
A recent letter by Budget Committee Member Louise Durfee deserves response on two points. First, Ms. Durfee’s attempt to spin her role in attempting to take trash pickup away from Tiverton residents actually puts her actions in a worse light. The video of the relevant Budget Committee meeting is available online (https://youtu.be/GO-VQTjVPH8), so everybody can judge for themselves whether her new story matches reality. I say it does not, especially with her Tiverton 1st friends’ clear intention to take trash pickup away to teach voters a lesson (see TivertonFactCheck.org for details). According to her letter, Durfee casually chatted with Town Treasurer Denise Saurette on the phone the day of the Budget Committee meeting. Saurette did a little light research about trash programs, and then within the space of minutes of hearing it, a majority on the Budget Committee decided that the quick and dirty plan was enough to make a major change to local services, going so far as to assume greater savings than the Town Administrator had projected. And Durfee calls my budget suggestions “stupid” and “mean-spirited”! The list of options I provided the committee was more than twice the size of what was needed, meaning that it gave …
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