TOWN ELECTION TODAY – please vote on leaving civil service

POLLS OPEN UNTIL 8PM AT THE CENTER

LEAVING CIVIL SERVICE ON BALLOT

I just voted and can report that the voting is extremely light when I was there. Please vote.

Civil service is on our ballot. The Select Board has asked to have the town removed from the civil service system. The Medfield Police Department’s police union supports the town leaving civil service. In fact, the union has created signs that make the somewhat confusing question clear –

SUPPORT MEDFIELD POLICE VOTE YES

Additionally, the union members will be holding those signs at the polls all day. This writer thanks the union and its members for their support and their activity at the polls.

ONE EXAMPLE IS ALL THE REASON WE NEED

The example of why Medfield would be better out of civil service is shown by the MPD’s recent attempt to hire of a new officer having been nixed by another town who civil service states controlled the officer. That town that cancelled our hire is not even the town where the officer currently works, but rather the town the officer left 4 years and 9 months ago, but which town under the archaic civil service rules still controls that officer and has to approve our hiring.

I am told that if Medfield votes today to leave civil service (a YES vote), then Medfield will be able to proceed with our hiring of that new officer tomorrow.

Please vote also to affirm that we believe that Mike Pastore will be a great moderator, and support all our other fellow residents volunteering to make out town run.