David Cohen

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – budget season!  I’ll admit it, before I became a member of the Board of Selectmen, I found the budget process to be confusing and hard to follow.  I would hear folks in town say things like “this is a tough budget year,” or “this is a challenging budget cycle,” but I didn’t really understand why.  Why is one year more challenging than another?  Isn’t it always hard to find enough dollars to support all the needs and wants of our town? Well, the...

Over the past few months of knocking on doors and talking with residents, one theme has come up over and over again: effective communication matters.