I Served With Reardon on the School Committee. Here’s What I Think of His Term

Well said, Bruce! The incompetent never-do-well with zero managerial experience and a self-absorbed personality should never have been elected mayor. Let’s hope the voters show him out the door, never to return.

Thank you, Bruce. Where was your voice for years ago?😊

Anyone who was around me four years ago heard me say all of these things publicly. Four years ago I wrote a letter to the ‘paper of record’ articulating many of these issues and same and similar concerns- using only information on the public record- and the paper refused to publish it- the editor called it a ‘hit job’- which made no sense to me because it was all demonstrably true. Demonstrably.

I would love to read details & examples of the following: “Chaos and toxicity are causing relentless public service staff turnover. We are embroiled in avoidable litigation. There is a climate of meanness, pettiness, and unkindness that permeates interactions with elected officials and citizens. We are polarized. There is a stunning dearth of accountability by government,” and “There is ongoing litigation stemming from employees whose previous work was exemplary, and who were terminated without cause, or with dubious cause…”

A Partial List 1 – Laying off Parks Director, claiming it was the result of a re-organization that had not occurred. Resulting in a wrongful termination lawsuit. 2 – Railroading our award-winning archivist out of the library. Resulting in an age-discrimination lawsuit. 3 – Telling the Parking Clerk to fix tickets for a friend who repeatedly kept parking in a handicap spot. The Clerk rightfully did not fix the tickets. 4 – Knowingly submitting an appointment for Board of Registrars that did not comply with the law. The non-compliance was identified in the City Council General Government Committee and the appointment was withdrawn. 5 – Repeatedly claiming the tax burden on Rec Ctr would be $33/year for the average taxpayer – knowing the $33 figure was only the amount requested for debt exclusion, not the entire amount. Exposed by a city councilors who supported the Rec Ctr. 6 – Loss of 5 department heads (Head Librarian, IT Director, Health Director, DPS Director, Water Superintendent.) Almost losing the School Superintendent and Finance Director (who moved from the city department to the school department.) 7 – 46 campaign finance audit requests since 1/15/2021, compared to 2 for Amesbury’s Mayor Gove since 5/14/2021 and 5 for Haverhill’s Mayor Barrett since 12/01/2021.

Well said Bruce! I sincerely hope people will finally see the disasters ahead with his so called leadership. Our future taxes thanks to his spending will be outrageous and our immediate water infrastructure needs drastic attention….certainly not the REC center he railroaded thru!

I 💯 percent agree 👍 and REAR-DUN with it The blocking of decent CVs for committees due to his personal hatred for anyone who speaks against him is also not only unlawful but bias and discriminatory and I have probably more degrees than some of the education staff and that of the committees in departments within the city And there’s no getting your resume past his hands 🙌 it really does send the idea that if you don’t liove Reardon you don’t work or even gain ability to help for FREE And that couldn’t be more factual

How about even ecec sessions that didn’t impact the public but were sent there anyhow? Or the fact he offered a flooded new development homeowner the assistance of social worker and a homeless shelter instead of handling the developer who was still under contract for 12 other homes across Colby farm lane How about the fact that donations of over 80k went to parks dept front the same developer who didn’t comply with warranty and demanded a big variance in board of health who then director was coincidentally let go and now states she’s a GENIUS in affordable housing issues in another city as we speak? How about the fact that the mayor doesn’t go to meetings ? Doesn’t listen to his constituents And weird how he won again by a very close margin – and if we vetted that I can guess prob half of the voters for him they’re all the big money players If you can learn basic math You can learn how this works But I always call a spade a spade and wow there is so much people haven’t known or mentioned that would add the cherry to the points already made Nobody sees or understands how one hand feeds another but instead of watching yesterdays meeting Watch 2021 and 2022 and 2023 And remember they change street names to hide public info So be smarter than them And if you can’t do that much Don’t vote according to what the dude next door said Bc that guy could own a three million dollar home and a vacation house and still be an absolute moron He also may have a stake in the game Use your heads folks and for love of GOD start teaching our students politics bc my kid is fluent in all of your Spanish 1 and 2 and blah blah I’d rather her learn how to gain a building permit and how to publically demand her two minutes in this city’s hall of democracy to ask for what is her right and speak her mind – guessing Reardon wants the opposite and so therefor I’m teaching my kids how and I really hope Nbpt schools teach their born here kids how to do what we are trying to teach them to do- bc it matters and smart women always know when to leave a room however they also know when to create their own