Saturday, November 27, 2010

Two Items for Monday's Special Meeting

The City Council's notice for Monday's meeting has been published. There will be an executive session at 7 p.m. and a special meeting at 8 p.m., both in Municipal Court, 325 Watchung Ave.

The council was supposed to meet on Nov. 22 in closed session to discuss layoffs. That will now be happening Monday.

Several items were mentioned on Nov. 22 as possible topics for the special meeting, but only two topics - layoffs and a shared services agreement with the school district - are in the legal notice. This means by law only those items can be discussed.

Readers may recall that there was a brief shared services agreement in 2008 with the school district for information technology when Chris Payne was working for the district. He now works for the city, but has a massive scope of work and no permanent staff. One hopes the public will be given some idea of how this shared services plan will work and what the benefits will be for each partner.

--Bernice

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