BELLOWS FALLS — An open letter to the Rockingham Free Public Library:
This latest round of deconstruction by the Personnel Committee of the work done by the previous RPFL board, as orchestrated by the four “trustees you can trust” (TYCT), is just one more piece of the mission to reinstate the terminated director.
Every effort is being made to dumb down the job description to fit the former director's insufficient skill set. This is a deliberate diminution of the intellectual level of education necessary and befitting a Carnegie library in the 21st century.
Negating the excellent work on the job description previously done by the coordinated efforts of the board and the staff, this current revision is a blatant attempt to make a square peg fit in a round hole. If shaving away vital job skills is necessary to make this work, then so be it, according to the TYCT.
The RFPL is not going forward into the future, but rewinding itself into a self-serving, Tammany Hall–esque picture of the last 100 years.
No single trustee has proven the former director was never insubordinate, has never taken unauthorized raises, or has ever followed completely the orders and instructions of the board. Her choices were to wait the board out, to disobey by delaying actions, and by instructing municipal managers to authorize raises out of tax monies not theirs to administrate.
No trustee has proven that she has never publicly embarrassed the board through the press, while still employed, and tainted the image of the library. No one.
Why do the TYCT not clearly refute these charges? Because they cannot, and they do not care. They were brought on board with one mission and one single goal. Just ask Elayne Clift.