Planning Board: Tax ‘em So We Can Harass ‘em
The Planning Board submitted in their 2010 budget request a need for $21,000 for their legal expenses, or rather, a whopping 60% of their entire $35,070 budget request. Not a bad system to be able to take money from local families and businesses and use it to defend their all-knowing “planning” when those same families and businesses object to their wise “planning” and take them to court over it.
[Update: Town attorney collecting 60% of the Planning Board's budget can't even make it to a Supreme Court case to stick up for the Planning Board's "unlawful" and "unreasonable" actions.]