09/12/1979 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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4 Selectmen' s Minutes Page 5. 9/12/79 . Continued: O' Connell: I ' '► in my twelfth year. I started at $1. 800, and change. Show me an employee in town with that percentage of twelve God damn years in any office, anywhere. That had been the figure requested by this Board originally. The Board had requested .$5,,200 per member. That was a vote t. of this Board. Now you have one at $20, 000 and two at $2, 500, Benway: Let me correct one thing. It wasn' t $15,600 last year. It was $12, 700. Abby: Now your getting $20,000. Benway: Yes., Murphy: Chet, do you think that there' s a (U=nfair) portion in distribution Garland: No, I think. s o * .1 think I will not answer that question. i Murphy: What do you think of the total relati e to what was spent last year Garland: Well, if we don' t have an Executive Secretary, • i f your talking about dollars , were not spending anymore. Murphy: What was Frank' s salary Benay: about $17,.000. McCartney: So with the Executive Secretary your salaries last year were $40 ,000. Garland: What mosteo le do not understand is the fact p p that there' s no such thing as a full time , or part time selectman. The law does say that elected officials. will spend that amount of time necessary to accomplish his job. I feel personally, and have a log of this, that I spend as much time in this office as anybody else does. All I 'm asking, and I was not here and I was not a member of the Board at that time , and the Board did vote and requested a certain salary range, It was changed on town meeting floor and all' I'm asking is for reconsideration. I have heard the statement said that I 'm a part time selectman and if I want to spend 4-5 hours a day here that' s my problem. I don' t lake that kind of statement. -Its not my problem, Its the job this town elected me to do- that I'm trying to do.