Been Naughty? Be Nice in 2014

If you were naughty in 2013, you can start redeeming yourself in 2014 by taking part in Mayor-elect Adrian Mapp's "Week of Service," which includes a coat drive, a Senior Appreciation Day, a call to support local businesses and restaurants and an opportunity to thank those in the military for their service.

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Meanwhile, 2013 will conclude with Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs also serving as acting city administrator, as she did in September following the departure of former City Administrator Eric Berry. Al Restaino, who served from Oct. 7 as both acting city administrator and director of Administration, Finance, Health & Social Services, recently resigned with a couple of weeks left to go in the mayor's second term.

The mayor was nice enough not to veto ordinances important to formation of Mapp's cabinet, or so we hear. Mapp, the Third Ward councilman, is now stepping down from that title as of late Friday and the Democratic City Committee must offer three names for an appointee to serve until the Nov. 2014 general election. The governing body will choose one of the three to serve. Will it be someone of the Regular Democrat or New Democrat persuasion? We shall find out at a special meeting soon, no doubt.

Mayor Robinson-Briggs has stated she will still be serving Plainfield in another capacity after she leaves office on Dec. 31. We await her announcement.

--Bernice