Oscar Heller will be a thoughtful member of the Brattleboro Selectboard, progressive in his values but mindful of the financial facts of life. I have served with Oscar for several years on the Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee (both of us have chaired in different years) and I know his abilities well. Heller is diligent and well-informed. He respects different opinions, listens well, and has an admirable ability to contribute to the development of reasoned decisions while maintaining group cohesion.
It is clear from this year’s Finance Committee work that Heller strongly believes in the necessity of multi-year financial planning and rigorous consideration of budgetary alternatives. He knows that nothing good can come from undisciplined spending.
As someone who chose to make his home in Brattleboro, as a young businessperson, and as a landlord of an Eliot Street apartment building in which he lives, Oscar cares deeply about Brattleboro. He wants to contribute his talents and energy to address the problems the Town currently faces and to help pave a path toward its better future.
