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Resignation. Jared Stanton, highly-respected business manager for Groton Dunstable Regional School has resigned. A statement released by Superintendent of Schools Kristan Rodriguez said: 'I know this is the right thing for Jared personally and professionally as it offers him a position closer to...
Making Do With Less, an article in March 6 Sunday Globe discussed how demographics and median incomes are changing in some towns in eastern Massachusetts.
As town populations of older retired residents grows, incomes are less subject to salary compensation and more dependent on retirement income...
Groton Finance Committee reviewed cuts to the municipal side as outlined in the FY2017 "Carry Over" budget submitted by Town Manager Mark Haddad, supporting some recommendations and questioning others. Also during their review they considered a lengthy memo from Selectman Josh Degen who proposed to...
Below is a summary of the terms of Mark Haddad's new 3-year contract. The total increase over the life of the contract is 9.69%.
First Year of new contract [5.08% Increase]: Annual salary increases from $130,080 to $132,982 - 3% increase. Car allowance of $2,100 is added to contract. Life...
Town Manager Mark Haddad narrowly eked out a thee-year contract renewal on a split 3-2 decision with Selectmen Cunningham, Eliot and Schulman voting to approve the renewal, which included a cumulative 9.69 percent salary increase over three years. Selectmen Petropoulos and Degen voted against the...
Town Manager Mark Haddad presented Selectmen Monday night with an update to his FY2017 budget and also a document that lays out five-year projections based on his original budget and the three scenarios for budget reductions. In addition he showed the effect of three percent growth rate in the...
In the same week that the participants filled the upstairs meeting room at Town hall to review alternative budgets for Groton town government, the regional school committee met in the relative obscurity of a basement conference room in Prescott School to discuss a budget which will have...
Selectman Josh Degen asked his colleagues at their Monday night meeting to reconsider their earlier support for membership on the new Sustainable Budget Committee to include a number of non-resident town employees and, instead, he recommended expanding the number of Groton taxpayers in the...
Police Chief Donald Palma Jr. and Fire Chief Steele McCurdy report that the police and fire departments were dispatched to a residence for a report of a child that received burns from boiling water last weekend.
At approximately 12:04 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, the Groton Police and Fire Departments...
Town Manager Mark Haddad presented three budget scenarios requested by Selectmen and the Finance Committee to a joint meeting of the two groups on Monday night. This was a meeting to present the information on the scenarios and no action was taken. The ultimate decision is the Finance Committee’s...