Department of Revenue officials visit town again
If you follow town politics you knew all along that the select board, the guardians of your hard earned tax dollars, engage in wasteful spending. However, now it is official. The Department of Revenue (DOR) interviewed our town officials and published a report that is less than flattering. The DOR report clearly shows that what selectboard member James Wettlaufer says to the unassuming tax payers, and what he does are two different things. “officials […] knowingly incur[ring] year-end deficits in order to defer costs until the following year,” the DOR report states. By dragging their feet, Earl Johnson and the rest of the board of assessors incurred unnecessary costs in interest payments which averaged $54,464 over the last two years.Publicly, Wettlaufer's “beliefs” are different. He was quoted in the February 15, 2008 issue of the Villager as having said: “We have said all along since we began as a board together that we would always provide what we believe to be a balanced budget.”
What Wettlaufer says and does are two different things. The DOR report also points out that the practice of overspending is illegal,
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