Citizens Want To Vote on the Lisbon Budget‏

At the March 16th Town Council meeting the Council held a "workshop" on a
charter amendment concerning putting the town budget to a referendum vote.

This should have been placed on the agenda and not a "workshop" with no
public input or discussion.

The Council has been asked to at least give the voters an opportunity to
vote yes or no on weather they would like to vote on the town budget as has
been done with the school budget for the past 2 years.

Citizens have been requesting the Town Council to make the necessary change
to the Charter so that we, the taxpayers can vote on the town budget for
several months now, and all we get is stonewalling.

Councilor Gina Mason said she has not received any calls nor has anyone
approached her concerning this matter. Kind of hard to call as I could not
find her phone number in the phone directory. Mark Lunt's and Lori Pomelow's
numbers are not listed in the phone directory either.
 
So, if you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer would like to have a say on how your taxes
are spent, if you would like to vote on the Town Budget as we have on the
School Budget, call or e-mail your Councilors!

{Emails have been updated.   You can always go to Town website and send emails to them that way but 

we suspect that they will be scrubbed as we know the phone calls are.}
 
Councilor Michael Bowie - 353-2607
caseygirl@myfairpoint.net
 
Councilor Fern Larochelle Jr. - 353-2329 
fernsbodyshop@myfairpoint.net

Dale Crafts:- 353-5469
dalecrafts@aol.com
 
Councilor Gina Mason - 353-9086
gmason1959@yahoo.com
 
Councilor Roger Cote - 353-2100
flagmann189@aol.com
 
Mark Lunt   akhet99@yahoo.com

Call the Town Office at 353-3000 and leave a message
mlunt@lisbonme.org
 
Lori Pomelow   pomelowl@aol.com 

Call the Town Office at 353-3000 and leave a message
lpomelow@lisbonme.org
 
Give your opinion, yes or no.
 
Here are phone numbers and e-mails. How easy is that?!!!!!!!!!!!
 
                This is YOUR TOWN!        This is YOUR MONEY!
 
This is Budget Season. Get involved. Attend meetings. Watch meetings on
Channel 7 Thursdays after the meetings, both School and Town Council. Call
your councilors. Don't wait until you get your tax bill and complain. It'll
be too late then. Especially with revaluation in the process.
 
Dot Fitzgerald - 353-9306
villre1@myfairpoint.net
A Taxpayer, and
A Very Concerned Citizen.