Selectmen's minutes "approved" with errors

Note from the MCA: At the selectmen's meeting on July 10th, 2008 a presentation was made by the Moultonboro Police Department regarding a qualifying firing range at the transfer station. It generated a lot of debate. Despite this, the selectmen posted minutes that were incomplete and did not cover vital aspects of that debate. The MCA wrote to the selectmen to correct the minutes.  They declined to do this and approved the minutes as written. We reviewed the video and provided to the selectmen the following:

1.       MPD firing range- Cpl. Canfield clearly states that the range would only be used by MPD and no other departments. This is not in the minutes. This is a critical point for resdents to consider before the public hearing continues.

2.       MPD firing range- Cpl. Canfield explained that they will try and use the facility on Wednesdays mostly and Chief Kinmond mentioned that this may not always be possible due to trying to avoid overtime. This is not mentioned in the minutes and again is an important point for the public to be aware of before a decision is made.

As per Chief Kinmond at part 2 of the public hearing on this issue on July 24th a lot of misinformation was out there. This could have been avoided by the selectmen by firstly providing accurate, substantive and complete minutes and secondly, by allowing broadcast of the video of the meeting on public access TV. 

MCA