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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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Town Council to Divide Town Over Budget Committee Appointment
In his roundup of outcomes of the election in Tiverton, Sakonnet Times reporter Tom Killin Dalglish highlights the fact that Dave Perry’s election to the Town Council means that he’ll leave behind a vacancy on the Budget Committee. Two of the five councilor-elects — Joan Chabot and Peter Mello — would like to see the Budget Committee candidate who received the next-most votes (John Martin) appointed to the position. Three — Jay Lambert, Brett Pelletier, and Denise deMedeiros — suggest that there ought to be a more-extensive process for choosing the replacement, with the council making an independent decision. And two — Joe Sousa and Dave Perry, himself — are not quoted with an opinion. This circumstance has arisen for only one other council in the history of the Budget Committee, at least going back to the passage of the Home Rule Charter in 1994, and if the three council members who want to ignore the election results have their way, they’ll set a new, divisive precedent. In the 1994 charter, the town elected the Budget Committee during its annual financial town meeting (FTM), and the Home Rule Charter explicitly stated that vacancies between elections would be “filled by the next highest vote getter from the last Budget Committee …
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