Meriden: School board asks 5.9 percent raise, which is not enough to keep current jobs funded, but too much to expect in terms of increase. Given the imperative increases of $1 million for health insurance, $1.3 million for contracted wages, and $3.5 million for out-of-district tuitions (which totals $5.8 million), there’s little room to negotiate before dropping personnel. On the other hand, what any private industry would do is to freeze the wages, saving all those jobs (or more of them) and minimizing increases. The tuitions are either for special education or Edison or both and mandated. Should the school board ask for what the needs of the system, as is, is, or make the sort of cuts the economy demands?
Meriden: Sounds as if the bus inspections were a routine sort of event and as if the violations alleged routine as well. It’s a logical sort of review.
Meriden: Council has taken a good and logical step in voting to add a liner to that very shaky drainage line under Britannia Street where there was flooding last summer. The $103,000 will be well spent.
Southington: Interesting move of the Aquifer Protection Zone to the east side of Queen Street. I’m not quite sure how that was accomplished, but it will save everyone lots of money, since businesses to the west, old industrial sites and storage and chemical uses, were located there.
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