Image: Barberry Bush flowers.Dr. Harold Yood has hit all the expected highlights of Monday's City Council meeting in two posts over the weekend. Here is a link to his blog. He and I arrived at the Plainfield Public library Saturday morning with the same mission, to look at background documents in the packet for the May 2 meeting. We had a chat about some, which makes me feel I contributed a bit to his findings.
The item I am most interested in is the scheduled discussion of the shared IT services plan with the school district. See Plaintalker's post here from December. As noted, Councilman Adrian Mapp had strong objections and I await his usual incisive questioning on the update.
The presenter will be Chris Payne, who formerly worked for the school district when the city had a prior shared services arrangement. After Payne was hired by the city to handle IT and media, it turned out he had no staff to help carry out his mission. Somehow the new arrangement was supposed to help Payne by making district staff available for the shared services.
This report should be crucial in helping the City Council to decide whether to prolong the arrangement past the initial six months. Residents with any opinions on this subject should let their elected representatives know of their concerns, either by e-mail or by speaking in public comment before a further commitment is made.
The meeting Monday is 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library, 515 Watchung Ave. The regular meeting is 8 p.m. May 9 in Municipal Court, 325 Watchung Ave.
--Bernice
Bernice, Your knowledge and insight of Plainfield, its citizens and its politics makes any conversation with you a valuable tool for any blogger. Your in put is one reason why in the morning when I turn on my computer after my email scan the first thing I open is your blog then Marks for an update on Plainfied.
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