$132M for Fiscal 2025 – it’s your money
By Bob Hertz You are asked to vote on April 30 for an override of $6.6M, most of which supports Acton Leadership Groups (ALG) Fiscal […]
Articles by Bob Hertz
Level Services, Level Funding or Simply an Uphill Plod
By Bob Hertz Management (ALG) suggests fiscal 2025 budgets represent “level services”. Level compared to what benchmark? Are all services level or does the label […]
To all Acton Residents
By Bob Hertz Acton Leadership Group (ALG) (1), our town’s power brokers or their emissaries, tell you how much money they want and how they […]
Coming Soon – Large Increase in Your Property Tax Bill – How Large Depends on FinCom Diligence and Your Vote
By Bob Hertz An average homeowner in Acton currently pays roughly 18% of their family income to real estate taxes (based on the average house […]
Democracy Or Tyranny
By Bob Hertz During the Acton Select Board meeting of December 5, 2022, a vote was taken to allow for reduction of citizen debate, a […]
What is Deception? A Review of One Example from the Acton Select Board
By Bob Hertz I believe we got a dose of it on October 18, 2021. Fabrications, silence, and distortions by several members of the Select […]
Unacceptable Omissions of Acton Select Board
By Bob Hertz Getting basic answers to simple questions should not be as hard as the Select Board (SB) seems to want it to be. […]
Time To Put the Record Straight
By Bob Hertz and Charlie Kadlec Tenant claims discrimination and other issues against the Acton Housing Authority Acton residents listening to the citizens’ concerns portion […]
Yes – Privilege Checklists are now part of Acton “training”
By Bob Hertz In a June 2021 Acton Forum article, I asked if White-Privilege checklists are a part of Acton. Unfortunately, I have my answer. Yes, […]
Are White-Privilege Checklists Now Part of Acton?
By Bob Hertz Rumor has it that Acton central leadership is exploring, to some degree, White-Privilege checklists, a spin-off of Critical Race Theory (CRT). These […]