Please find attached and in the body of this email below the agenda for the upcoming School Committee Meeting on Monday, November 3, 2008. Miriam Sousa ...
Miriam Sousa
msousa@...
Nov 1, 2008 3:09 pm
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Dear David - I think that in order to have an intelligent and productive discussion of health care in Lexington (and many other issues), we must consider the...
Hello all, I certainly do hope that you are having a good weekend. These last couple weeks, I have had many angry citizens contact me because they wanted email...
Hi all: I'm amazed there hasn't been discussion on this list re: Question 1. Though it's on the state ballot, there are few things that have possible ...
ajfriedl@...
Nov 2, 2008 2:15 pm
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Dear Friends - We are public officials representing our consituents. They have our addresses and unless unlisted, most of our phone numbers. They have...
David - While I agree with you that it would be nice to have a "national" solution to the health care cost issue and I heartily endorse your suggestion that...
Dear Mr. Sacks, I feel that I must respond. We DO have a way for a constituent to pass along a concern that can reach all of us. He or she can simply send US...
Richard-- David correctly declined to advocate for or discuss the intricacies of potential Federal level health care reforms. Your discussion of local reforms...
The policy of the TMMA, adopted by the Executive Board after polling the TMMA members, has been that email addresses of the list participants are not public. ...
An opinion about e-mail and phone contact information and how much we all should worry about what is floating around out there ... Â The negative response...
Hank, I don't think that anyone who was concerned about Harriet Chmela's email was upset about getting too much mail (or even the possibility of getting hate...
Richard, I certainly agree that we should do whatever we can do locally to control the costs of our benefits programs. These are mostly short term temporary...
Lexington receives about $9,000,000 in visible state aid annually, covering both education and municipal needs. Some of that is already in jeopardy with the...
Art Katz
artkatz1@...
Nov 2, 2008 5:21 pm
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Hank wonders why we cannot bargain harder with our unions. The answer is simple. In a moment a candor a few years ago a Lexington union member explained it all...
Wpherring@...
Nov 2, 2008 5:48 pm
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Yesterday I was at the library and noticed that it was badly overheated. When I went outside to the parking lot and looked up at the windows, I realized that...
Frank Sandy
fsandy@...
Nov 2, 2008 5:57 pm
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Vicki, Tip O'Niell pointed out that all politics is local. Issues at local, state and national levels are related and intertwined. The moderator of the TMMA...
In a message dated 11/2/2008 11:28:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, hank_manz@... writes: I, for one, have long advocated for a public list for all Town...
David: You make some good points. But I think that while there may be valid reasons for not joining the state GIC, worries about our state taxes going...
A quick back of the envelope calculation is that if there are 9000 employed citizens in Lexington and the median income is $110,00 and the tax rate is 5.3%...
I see that there is a typo in my previous message below referring to $9,000 instead of $9,000,000 in state aid. A quick back of the envelope calculation is...
Alan, I find the editor of the Belmont Citizen-Herald's rational behind supporting Question 1 irrational. Of course there are state expenses which revert to...
ajfriedl@...
Nov 2, 2008 11:18 pm
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I am replying publicly because I think this is an important point.  I will state my point more baldly. First, if you are running e-mail without a SPAM...
Vicki - Lexington does not operate in a vacuum, immune from state, national and international affairs. If we do not examine and understand the larger context...
Sounds like a job well done by our Library staff! ... From: Hank Manz <hank_manz@...> To: All Town Meeting Members <lex-tmma@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sun,...
Wpherring@...
Nov 3, 2008 12:41 am
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Andy, David: I don't disagree with your comments regarding us receiving more from the state than just direct aid. But neither addressed my main point, which...
Hank, Thanks for clearing this up. ... -- Frank Sandy...
Frank Sandy
fsandy@...
Nov 3, 2008 1:25 am
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... Alan, I just used a number that I remembered seeing in some census data and it might have been either the mean or median. That number is itself a few years...
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