Exeter for Sale

     Well fellow citizens, Selectman Dan and Bobble-Head tried to sell our Town for 30 pieces of silver last Monday night. In truth, it was actually for $6,000 per year.  It seems that our Town Manager, acting through the Parks & Rec Director, illegally signed an exclusive contract with an out of town business, Convenient MD (CMD), allowing CMD the right to hang huge banners on our Rec fields. The agreement also required Parks & Rec to place the CMD logo on all Parks & Rec brochures, made CMD the sponsor of all youth sports as well as the Easter Egg Hunt and Halloween Parade and prohibited the Town from allowing any other advertising or sponsorship for any of these events.

     Probably the most ludicrous provision required Parks & Rec to refer any non-life threatening sports injury to Convenient MD in Stratham. First of all there is the impropriety of such a demand and then there's the liability issue of the Town making medical referrals. And how do you think one of the Town's top 3 taxpayers, Exeter Hospital, would feel about the Town referring injuries to an out of town for-profit business?
     Fortunately, Julie joined Don and Anne in terminating this agreement. Dan, and of course Bobble-Head, made a motion to re-negotiate the agreement, but withdrew the motion when it was clear that he would lose. Never fear, he plans to bring it up again.
     With these negotiating skills, it's not hard to understand why the Town got such a bad deal on the water sales agreement with Stratham.  Can you imagine what the sewer sales agreement is going to look like?