EDITORIAL: Town Meeting Attendance

Three for three absences -- maybe the budget will bring 'em out?!?

1 POWER, MARK 129 Meadow Street
1 RUBECK, STRIDER 1040 N. Pleasant Street, #283
1 WASKIEWICZ, JOSEPH A. 324 Meadow Street
1 WINNE, ROBERT F. 105 Montague Road

2 GALE, KEVIN C. 227 Shutesbury Road
2 MACLEOD, PATRICK D. 228 Henry Street

3 INGRAM, JOHN S. 171 Pine Street
3 ROBERTS, LOUIS ANTHONY 172 Rolling Ridge Road

4 SAMONDS, KENNETH W. 86 Dana Street

5 PITKIN, DONALD S. 27 S Prospect Street

7 FORREST, TERRY S. 34 Pomeroy Lane, #5
7 JOY, KEVIN P. 214 Glendale Road

8 BASCOMB, CHRISTOPHER D. 32 Autumn Lane
8 PUFFER, JR. STEPHEN P. 318 Spencer Drive (Mr Puffer gets a free pass, given he's been in Town Meeting since forever:-)

10 ROSENTHAL, BERNICE M. 51 McClellan Street

EX ANDERSON, KATHLEEN DEQUENCE 266 East Hadley Road, #39
EX POPE, SONIA CORREA 16 Hitching Post Road
EX ROMERO, CHRYSTEL D. 54 Justice Drive
EX WANG, KATHLEEN 11 Dickinson Street
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Here's what I wonder every time Town Meeting rolls around again -- where are some of the elected members? And could this be the year the Town Meeting Coordinating Committee considers a sort of "sunshine club" to call and ask these folks if they're OK, and asking them to start showing up?

I realize stuff comes up in everyone's life, and I sure don't want anyone who has a real issue to feel guilty, yet all the Town Meeting members have known about the meeting dates for months. So why are there folks who haven't come to *either* of the first two sessions?

For example (from the Town website: Town Meeting Attendance)

1 POWER, MARK 129 Meadow Street
1 RUBECK, STRIDER 1040 N. Pleasant Street, #283
1 WASKIEWICZ, JOSEPH A. 324 Meadow Street
1 WINNE, ROBERT F. 105 Montague Road

2 GALE, KEVIN C. 227 Shutesbury Road
2 MACLEOD, PATRICK D. 228 Henry Street

3 INGRAM, JOHN S. 171 Pine Street
3 MEAD, KIMBERLY MAY 16 Berkshire Terrace
3 ROBERTS, LOUIS ANTHONY 172 Rolling Ridge Road

4 BROCK, STACEY D. 48 Dana Street
4 JENSEN ABIGAIL M. 100 Dana Street
4 SAMONDS, KENNETH W. 86 Dana Street

5 PITKIN, DONALD S. 27 S Prospect Street

6 KLEINHOLZ, LISA 203 Heatherstone Road

7 FORREST, TERRY S. 34 Pomeroy Lane, #5
7 JOY, KEVIN P. 214 Glendale Road

8 BASCOMB, CHRISTOPHER D. 32 Autumn Lane
8 NAKAJIMA, ERIC T. 500 West Street, #17
8 PUFFER, JR. STEPHEN P. 318 Spencer Drive (Mr Puffer gets a free pass, given he's been in Town Meeting since forever:-)

9 BODIN, D. JOSEPH 35 Maplewood Drive

10 JACKSON, PHILIP S. 204 Lincoln Avenue
10 MCCARTHY, PATRICK ROBERT 2210 UM John Q Adams
10 ROSENTHAL, BERNICE M. 51 McClellan Street

EX ANDERSON, KATHLEEN DEQUENCE 266 East Hadley Road, #39
EX POPE, SONIA CORREA 16 Hitching Post Road
EX ROMERO, CHRYSTEL D. 54 Justice Drive
EX WANG, KATHLEEN 11 Dickinson Street

It doesn't mean all that much to say we have all the seats filled if it's really just that there are names attached to empty chairs:-( Let's hope things pick up when we start the budget May 21...
Alisa