TOWN services — never less, only more.
I am not sure about you, but when my wife and I pay our taxes, we do so with the expectation that our money will be wisely spent by the people we chose through an election. This however — is not always the case.
Sometimes services are stripped (Abuse Leads To Changes For Berlin’s Bulk Pickup Days), and sometimes they are threatened because of budgetary problems, and other times they are simply lackadaisically taken care of. And that’s not why we pay taxes. So, as a council member, it would be one of my goals to make sure that we never lose anything we rely on, and that we focus on the details in the ones that we do handle. This is not novel, I am not the first one to say this, this is common knowledge amongst the masses. I mainly bring up the bulk-trash pickup dilemma as an example. I am fully convinced that restricting bulk-trash pickup for the masses because of a few people abusing the system was NOT the best way to handle the situation. It’s times like these that the mind of a “Creative” and a mind of an “Entrepreneur” being in one - comes in handy.
Pragmatism is my mantra, and I am sure there was another solution at hand with which to fix the current one.
I’d love to hear from you about your ideas in regards to our town services.