The August 14th BOS Meeting
At the end of
the August 14th
Board of
Selectmen's
meeting, one of
the Selectman
read a statement
explaining the
responsibilities
of an attorney
to continue to
support on-going
cases for
his/her former
client.
This was offered
as a
justification
for the
unexpected and
chaotic attempt
to unappoint our
Town Counsel at
the BOS meeting
of July 10th.
It isn't clear,
however, that
our Town Counsel
would have been
OK with being
unappointed
without warning
and without
cause.
Fortunately, the
attempt to
unappoint our
Town Counsel did
not succeed, and
the Town and its
residents were
not left
unprotected.
Politics and
personal issues
should not be
given more
weight by the
Board than
serving and
protecting the
residents of the
Town. I
will do my best
to convince the
Board to refocus
on the people
they should be
serving–you,
the residents of
Carver.
The
Town Web Site
Comes to You
You heard it
here first!
Very shortly
the town
website will
allow
residents to
be informed
automatically
of public
meetings and
headlines.
A
subscription
service will
be available
on the
Town's
website,
carverma.org,
that will
allow you to
register
your
personal
email with
the website
and receive
notifications
of
departmental headlines
and meeting
postings,
changes, and
cancelations
for the
town
departments
of your
choice.
In addition
to
departmental
notifications,
you may also
register to
receive:
- Non-emergency
headlines from
our public safety departments
(Board
of Health,
DPW,
Emergency
Management,
EMS, Fire
Department,
and Police
Department)
-
Headlines posted to the home page of the website
- Notification from the Town Clerk's office of upcoming elections and town meeting
- Notifications
from the
Treasurer/Tax
Collector of
upcoming tax deadlines
Visit carverma.org
later this
week to subscribe,
keep up with
what's
happening,
and stay
informed!
I encourage
everyone who
used to look
at the old
town website
and sigh, to
have a look
at the new
one.
Ups and Downs
With the Rt. 44
Solar Array
As described
in last week's
Carver
Reporter,
the Route 44
Solar array
on the Mass
Highway
easement
next to the
Town-owned
Cole
property,
is up and
running.
In a
Boston Globe
article of
8/30/2012
by Bob Knox,
I was quoted
as saying,
"It’s
clearly the
right thing
to do for
our
environment,
and it’s the
right thing
to do for
our
country–every
bit of
renewable
and
alternative
energy we
use is that
much less
dependence
on foreign
oil. And
finally, it
is a
demonstration
project that
hopefully
will make it
possible to
show there
are good
places to
site solar."
It's also
the right
thing to do
for Carver
taxpayers
since it
will save
the North
Carver Water
District
approximately
$3000 each
month in
electricity
costs.
Unfortunately
some panels
were stolen
recently
from the
array, but
the Carver
Police
Department
is
diligently
investigating.
The solar
array is
still
producing
just under
50% of the
energy
needed to
run the
water
treatment
plant on the
Cole
property.
Turkey Vultures
in North Carver!
Hats off to
Merci
Vanasse-Vickery
whose great
close-up photo
of the Turkey
Vultures
in the trees in
the swamp next
to the North
Carver
Cumberland Farms appeared in this
week's Carver
Reporter.
These creatures
are actually
very useful
members of our
ecosystem.
They help clean
up by eating
road kill and
other carrion.
While they
may look a
little
frightening,
they're not
at all
dangerous to
either
people or
pets,
and do not
attack
living
animals.
Turkey
Vultures are
a protected
species
under the
Migratory
Bird Treaty
Act of 1918.
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