Thoughts on Police and Highway Dept. Cuts

The Highway Department and the Police Department are the only departments that have more than one or one and one half employees. So when the Finance Committee and the Select Board looked to cut positions, they decided to cut one from each of these departments. You can't very well cut one position from the Tax Collection department if you only have one position. Or from the Town Clerk's office for that matter.

But you want to know what the real difference is between these two cuts? The one from the Highway Department is going to put a man out on the streets. Someone is actually going to lose his job. No one is going to be out on the street from the Police Department. There are openings for police officers that still need to be filled.

Do not take my interpretation of Warrant Article 11 or Warrant Article 15 for exactness, but please ask the Select Board and the Finance Committee these questions before you leap to conclusions.

Suzanne M Corbett