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Saturday May 5, 2018 #
4 PM
biking - dark blue bike 1:26:53 21.76 mi (4:00 / mi) +515ft 3:54 / mi
ahr:114 max:142 weight:138.5lbs
Low 70s, NW 10 mph, up to Turners Falls and back. Heart rate kept saying I wasn't working very hard but the legs seemed tired the whole time. Whatever...
5 PM
Note
One of the things I've done since more free time became available is get back involved in town affairs. Sunderland is a small town, maybe 3,500 people, but it's got a good government. Many years ago I'd had a couple of significant involvements, running the Finance Committee for half a dozen years in the '90s and then on the committee building a new library in the early '00s.
But for the last decade, zip.
Last fall a space opened up on the elementary school committee. They hadn't recruited anyone else, so I stuck my hand up. That was December. The position I was filling was the last few months of a three-year term, and then there would be an election for the next term. That was today.
The good news (or maybe it's bad news?) is that I won. The disclaimer is I was unopposed. People aren't exactly lining up to be on the school committee.
I think I'm not the usual candidate. No kids in the school, nor grandkids. And maybe 30-40 years older than the average age?
But so far I've both enjoyed it, and I think it's a good fit. I know how the town works, and how the town's finances work. I've known a lot of the folks who run the town for 20 or 30 years. So far this has been very beneficial, but we'll see what the future brings.
So last Friday, after a fine day working with the Florida kids, and then putting out a few controls at Mt. Tom, I had to pass on the group dinner and head off to Sunderland's annual town meeting. The budget for the school got approved, but MA law called for the needed modest override question to be decided at the ballot box. At some point I got up to speak for about 10 minutes, about how we really do have a good town, about the things that still need to be done and what progress is being made on them, and how that continuing that progress depended on the override question. Just stuff I thought needed to be said.
Today it passed, 55% to 45%. More progress will be work, but the odds just got better that it will be done.
A very good day. Thinking about it on my ride, there was a smile the whole way.
But for the last decade, zip.
Last fall a space opened up on the elementary school committee. They hadn't recruited anyone else, so I stuck my hand up. That was December. The position I was filling was the last few months of a three-year term, and then there would be an election for the next term. That was today.
The good news (or maybe it's bad news?) is that I won. The disclaimer is I was unopposed. People aren't exactly lining up to be on the school committee.
I think I'm not the usual candidate. No kids in the school, nor grandkids. And maybe 30-40 years older than the average age?
But so far I've both enjoyed it, and I think it's a good fit. I know how the town works, and how the town's finances work. I've known a lot of the folks who run the town for 20 or 30 years. So far this has been very beneficial, but we'll see what the future brings.
So last Friday, after a fine day working with the Florida kids, and then putting out a few controls at Mt. Tom, I had to pass on the group dinner and head off to Sunderland's annual town meeting. The budget for the school got approved, but MA law called for the needed modest override question to be decided at the ballot box. At some point I got up to speak for about 10 minutes, about how we really do have a good town, about the things that still need to be done and what progress is being made on them, and how that continuing that progress depended on the override question. Just stuff I thought needed to be said.
Today it passed, 55% to 45%. More progress will be work, but the odds just got better that it will be done.
A very good day. Thinking about it on my ride, there was a smile the whole way.