Americorps

[dtwarren]

Anyone see the Letter to the Editor from a Mr. Gary Schoene in this week’s Bee? Is he trying to blame the Supervisor for the Americorps review never being finished? Wasn’t it when Bove and Graber turned a vote to terminate Americorp’s Lease at the Burchfield into a motion to enter into that farce of grant administration agreement that ended the review?

He says that the Town Budget is 10 times the Americorps Budget. So 10% of the Town’s money went to fronting operational costs for Americorps? That’s pretty scary. I don’t understand how he can defend Bove for supporting all of this.

And again, he echoes the same manufactured comments about devaluing the program. Isn’t it how the program has been run that devalues the program the most?

Is this another guy Mark Lazzara has in his pocket?

I do not see how the administration agreement of the Americorps grant would end such a review. In fact the review should continue, if it has been ended, and result in some type of policy changes that will enact adequate checks and balances that will result in adequate controls over the administration of grants in general. Because regardless of whether or not the town divests itself of Americorps the town may in the future have some other type of grant to administer in which we could use this experience with Americorps as a learning experience to guide us as a town in the future on these issues.