For someone who likes to talk a lot, I guess I'm just not a natural blogger.

Life in Rollinsford is going smoothly right now. Life at our many different departments is going rather well too. They are ,without a doubt, a direct function of the great departments heads and staff we have here in town who work with very limited resources under a tight budget everyday. 

This last week I had a chance to stop by the site of the old Cumberland Farms on Rt. 4 and get a chance to see our awesome FD get some rare in-town practice. Due to the undergoing renovations of Cumberland Farms, the company was generous enough to allow our FD to use the building for training. From what I saw, not only was it a very helpful experience for our volunteers - it looked pretty fun as well. Thank you CF's and thanks to our volunteers at RFD and Chief Spinney, as well as the assistance from South Berwick FD. 

I think that in order to make this blog a little more interesting, and to allow you into my head a little, I will post some links to some of the sources I use to help me with making the right decisions on the Board here in town; they also add a little more depth to the macro world we live in. I enjoy economics very, very much. So, here is a new study that explains some the pros and cons on education reform. I am not, and never will be, on the school board, but I do find many aspects of the education system fascinating. Enjoy.

http://www.epi.org/publication/teachers-strategies-best-for-schools/

OK, I am going to try this again. It's important.

Today in town hall this morning we held a Joint Loss Management Committee meeting. This is a state mandated quarterly meeting that must be held with the town employees. I stood in as chair because Lt. Uraskevich, the normal chair for this committee, had police work he had to do. Present at the meeting was myself, Selectman Carroll; Fire Chief Mike Spinney; Road Agent Jeff St.Jean; Tax Collector Andrea Cass; Finance Secretary Beverly Dionne; Police Chief Bob Ducharme; and two staff from the New Hampshire Local Government Center (LGC), Wynette DeGroot and Laura Cole. Both are Health and Saftey Advisers for LGC.

The purpose for these meetings are to allow the employees of the town discuss their thoughts or concerns about the safety of their places of work. With the advisers from LGC there, it is better for us to get some quick input on how we can all work together to create the best, safest, and most efficient workplaces for all of the town's staff and for the residents. As soon as I am done typing up the minutes from this meeting, I will post them up at town hall. We have not yet set a date for our next meeting, but I will have that ready and made public by this Wednesday.

I was away from last week's meeting to take a vacation, so I am happy to get back to work at our selectmen's meeting tonight.

I want to thank everybody who came to this mornings meetings - thank you.