The Middleboro Town Manager Search Committee has released their FINAL choices and judging from early comments, one must wonder .......
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The Brockton Enterprise reports:
Former Brockton Mayor John T. Yunits Jr. is one of four finalists for town manager in Middleboro, a job advertised at $130,000 a year.
The three other finalists are James P. Purcell, Norton town manager; John O. D’Agostino, Mansfield town manager; and Charles J. Cristello, Hingham town administrator.
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Yunits is also a consultant for the Liberty Square Group, the firm that handles public relations for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and their bid to open a casino in Middleboro.
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Media Nation reports:
Oh, but not to worry, says search committee member Wayne Perkins, a former selectman and casino backer. Yunits may be taking money from a firm funded in part by the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and the South African casino moguls who are behind all this, but his work with Liberty Square is "strictly" limited to lobbying for a power plant in Brockton.
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But despite Mr. Perkins' assurances, that does not appear to be quite so, as a review of the additional articles indicates. It seems, yet again, Mr. Perkins has not done his due diligence.
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Some may remember that Mr. Perkins was forced to resign as BOS Rep. to Plymouth County Commissioners because he had taken a job with the County. BOS
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Mr. Perkins said this of casinos in March 5, 2007:
Chairman Perkins noted that towns in Connecticut that have casinos don’t pay taxes. BOS
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We're still waiting, Mr. Perkins.
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Mr. Perkins' arms are still sore from patting himself on his back for single-handedly negotiating union contracts that awarded 36% pay raises that put Middleboro in its current position.
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One truly must question the logic of considering an applicant employed by casino investors. Where will his loyalties lie? Should we even trust the assurances? Will he present impartial information the BOS and townspeople require to garner additional funding for the Town?
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One of the other choices is Mansfield Town Manager, John D'Agostino.
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A quick google search, for those who weren't paying attention last fall, reveals the Sun Chronicle article,
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[the recall began]....after a US District Court jury awarded damages to two former Municipal Electric Department employees who alleged unfair treatment by D'Agostino. Those damages may eventually top $3 million.
The jury concluded that D'Agostino, who oversees the Electric Department, had indulged in retaliatory behavior against Director John Beliveau and Chief Financial Officer Kimberly Stoyle, after Stoyle filed a sexual harassment complaint against D'Agostino and Beliveau supported her action. The complaint, filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, never went forward.
D'Agostino fired Beliveau in 2004. Stoyle quit in 2005, claiming D'Agostino's retaliatory behavior drove her out.
Amoruso and McCarter were linked to the issue because both were selectmen at the time of the alleged retaliation and selectmen oversee D'Agostino.
The jury concluded that D'Agostino, who oversees the Electric Department, had indulged in retaliatory behavior against Director John Beliveau and Chief Financial Officer Kimberly Stoyle, after Stoyle filed a sexual harassment complaint against D'Agostino and Beliveau supported her action. The complaint, filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, never went forward.
D'Agostino fired Beliveau in 2004. Stoyle quit in 2005, claiming D'Agostino's retaliatory behavior drove her out.
Amoruso and McCarter were linked to the issue because both were selectmen at the time of the alleged retaliation and selectmen oversee D'Agostino.
The town recently settled with Beliveau for $1.6 million. The money was taken from the Electric Department's rainy day fund.
Meanwhile, a judge ruled last month that D'Agostino was personally responsible for about $1 million in damages and attorney's fees to Stoyle, and the town has appealed that ruling.
Meanwhile, a judge ruled last month that D'Agostino was personally responsible for about $1 million in damages and attorney's fees to Stoyle, and the town has appealed that ruling.
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Middleboro, it might seem, doesn't have enough law suits to satisfy some. Do we need more for your tax dollars? That's the information that's contained in those EXECUTIVE SESSIONS the BOS doesn't want you to see.
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The Cape Cod Times offered the following: LINK
11 comments:
Given that the 'agreement' compels town officials to support the CasiNO, it seems to me that Yuntis
is the obvious pick. The other 3 "finalists" were presented for show.
Can things get any worse?
Yes, Yunits is also a supporter of Verizons efforts to weaken the towns control.
As if they ever had control over Verizon.
wondering when wayne will willingly vanish within walls of waffling wainscotting of haunted town hall?
when will whacked voters waken to wacky decisions?
what a wastage!
Yunits should agree to resign from the Liberty Square Group as condition of his being hired as Town Manager.
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Should Yunits have even been considered without resigning from Liberty?
Ethics, anyone?
How can Yunits impartially represent the best interests of Middleboro? Here we go again........another roller coaster ride! Continued political inbreeding will result in further dysfunction of town government.
This smacks of conflict of interest to me. Don't know if Wayne Perkins is more of a problem on or off the BOS. We've got to somehow organize voters to get rid of all the old guard.
Wonder where woeful, wannabe Wayne will wander next, the Water Works? What a wondrous, wistful woebegone willfully wrecking our wishes and wants. Whassup, Wayne?
I wouldn't want to see anyone with even a remote association to the casino deal become TM, no matter how qualified the candidate. Why the sudden urgency after the long time lapse since Jack Healey retired?
When and where does one go to listen to the BOS interview the candidates? Or has this already happened? I don't understand why the Board found it necessary to go into Executive Session to discuss this.
I wouldn't wish d'Agostino on you, but my town would be better off without him. Someone told me he left his previous employment for the same reason. I dont much care because he's done enough other stuff to get rid of him. I voted for the recall and we should have cleaned house. BTW Purcell only applied for the job to increase his pay. Norton gave it to him. So much for commitment and selecting good candidates.
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