Education standards/results which is proportional to the real-estate values in town.
--BK

Lower taxes. Decrease town employee costs. Eliminate pensions and retirement healthcare. Set up a retirement and benefit's package more in line with the private sector. Require all town employees to random drug testing and yearly performance revues. Require Fire Departments to have eight hour shifts where all personnel are required to work for the full 8 hours (no more 24 hour shifts with "sleep pay"). Start repairing our roads in town. Build sidewalks with granite curbing on all town roads. Require all new builders to install sidewalks with granite curbing with each new development or business. Reconfigure Rt 38 with a common area for the people, 20 mph speed limit. Build a down town more in line with other towns in our tax range such as Andover, Lynnfield and Wakefield. and a 20 mph speed limit. Make Tewksbury a desirable town where people want to move to, not from...........
I figure with what we are paying for taxes these goals are achievable within a years span.

Work with the State to use a portion of our CPF to pay for and preserve the Tewksbury State Hospital Lands. This should be our gift to future generations to preserve for all land that helps identify Tewksbury. It's such beautiful land and I can think of no other worthy cause as this.

Who me and John Smith: Excellent idea! It would be time and money worth spending to preserve the Tewksbury Hospital grounds. It is such a shame that many of the old homes on Livingston Street formerly inhabited by hospital staff were left to ruin and eventually had to be torn down.

I also wish that Tewksbury didn't have no many vacant stores. I do hope that businesses move into Tewksbury in 2013 and that the ones present continue to draw business and improve the town's desirability.

Address out of control sewer charges.

Repair the roads (namely East Street and North Street) and add sidewalks. I'm sure there must be enough tax money after all the massive hikes. The rate is out of control! I just found out people call Tewksbury a rest stop town because it's unattractive. You'd think with such high taxes our Main Street/town center would be a lot nicer.

#1)KEEP THE SOUTH FIRE HOUSE OPEN! #2) Follow the model Wilmington set for their route 38 corridor for our south side. Establish on that end of the city what they are planning for the north side entry point of the town, common area (wameseit park $50,000 improvements) and commerce. Infrastructure to include sidewalks big enough to entice pedestrian traffic and development. A cohesive plan that will take advantage of the vacancies and allow impactful growth. Give "Southie" and opportunity to have some character for specialty shops and national chains to come together. Envision something like downtown Andover with all the brick facades, or even smaller like Melrose with retail entrances on the sidewalk and parking in back. #3) STAY TRUE TO THE MASTER PLAN, building a series of residential units on East St that is heavy industry voids the first bullet point of mixing the two. I am all for building, but be sure we have the infrastructure to handle it, which is why the town made a plan in the first place.

Work to encourage and entice large businesses to move to Tewksbury. It seems like we have lots of open space and empty buildings that can accommodate a few companies. We can use the extra tax money to repair roads/build sidewalks. The increase in day traffic will help local small business and restaurants. I can't see how a small business stays open in this town.

So right BRIGARA, as Selectman I would work to secure chapter 90 state funding along with cpc supplements to do just that. If you build it...they will come, just look down the road to Wilmington and their chunk of rt 38.

Oh bob, trust me...I know every time I look at my pay stub where it comes from. I would much rather work to get funding for improvements that will be permanent and help create an asset that will attract businesses to our community. Fiscal responsibility in my opinion doesn't mean close the checkbook, it means send wisely. Unfortunately these are times of extremes...I have had to ask families on assisted housing to move their BMW so we could put their grandmother who is on public healthcare in the ambulance for her head cold. Apparently it's cheaper to take advantage of a system than drive and pay for parking. So frustrating!! I don't want to burden my kids in a mountain of debt, but conversely I don't want to raise them in a crumbling ghost town either.

*spend...sorry, auto correct

John Smith...I like your style

I think the towns top priority in 2013 is getting businesses... I mean real meaningful businesses to come here and to STAY here....Tewksbury is a great town but were really dropping the ball here