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In Steve Eldridges'  November/December 2012 "Quarterly Report" just published on the town's web-site, Mr. Eldridge says that the town established a Finance Committee as there was no interest in people serving on the Budget Advisory Board. 

I served on that Committee for 2 terms and the only problem that I could see was one person, Norma Wells. Mrs. Wells was elected to the Budget Advisory Board in a write-in with maybe 3-4 votes, to serve for the fiscal year 2011/12. She accepted and was sworn-in. Mrs. Wells showed up, if memory serves me correctly, a total of two (2) meetings. She stayed for a total of perhaps 10-20 minutes, if that long.  

Now, the same Norma Wells has been appointed to the newly established Finance Committee by Town Manager Eldridge and the Town Council to serve as a regular member, term expiring June 30, 2016.

I wonder if she will show up for the Finance Committee meetings?  

Anyone but me think that the Finance Committee was established, and members appointed by Town Manager Steve Eldridge and the Town Council, so that the proverbial Fox can guard the Proverbial Henhouse?

Dot Fitzgerald

A Lisbon Concerned Citizen


 3713 taxpaying citizens voted for Mrs. Fitzgerald to be on the Budget Advisory Board to represent them. Yet the Town Council did not offer her a spot on this Finance Committee by default.