http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/01/28/uncategorized/is-the-mayors-financial-advisory-committee-good-for-somerville/ An independent, open forum for reports and opinions about life in our city. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:14:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/01/28/uncategorized/is-the-mayors-financial-advisory-committee-good-for-somerville/comment-page-1/#comment-6892 Joe Beckmann Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:32:56 +0000 http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=542#comment-6892 "Extra measure of transparency" sounds pretty opaque to me. If the budget were as simple as it is supposed to be - which it really must be to get through the median intelligence of the Board of Aldermen - it ought not need any "extra measures. Unless, that is, those measures are to identify how many siblings, children, and other relatives of the current and past Boards of Aldermen are on the city payroll. Now that might be just the opacity required to see the light, as it were. “Extra measure of transparency” sounds pretty opaque to me. If the budget were as simple as it is supposed to be – which it really must be to get through the median intelligence of the Board of Aldermen – it ought not need any “extra measures. Unless, that is, those measures are to identify how many siblings, children, and other relatives of the current and past Boards of Aldermen are on the city payroll. Now that might be just the opacity required to see the light, as it were.

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