Things on my mind, but I have no answers today (town politics)

Short post today--

I have a bunch of points to ponder in my head today, and none of them seem to want to coalesce into a cogent essay. So, here they are, and you can make of them whatever you might wish:

• It makes economic sense to spend the money to "dress up" our town to make it welcoming-- nice town, more tourist dollars, and general feeling of good will
• Fiscal conservativism at the local level is useful, but not to the point that things fall into disrepair, while the "town fathers/mothers" sit back and wring their hands and moan about the "way things used to be" (though they never really were)
• Expanding the local Select Board to five is a prudent idea; three is just not a good enough representation of the size and make-up of our town
• Bitching won't fix things, and if you don't participate, hush your mouth
• Yes, we need a new elementary school--ours should have been condemned a long time ago, and it'll cost more to fix it than to build new (and safe, and healthy)
• It's sad that there are no quality applicants for our town manager position--gee, I wonder why? We've only been in the national/international news for being stupid for months
• Same goes for not being able to fill teaching positions at the high school-- no quality applicants for the math position for over a year...

Yup, they are all centering on our town meeting coming up, and the votes that will be cast. I hope we are guided by some divine presence to do the right thing for our town instead of complaining and voting NO on everything just because we want to be oppositional.

Have a good one,

C