The Editor's Notepod, Wed., Feb. 25, 2009

Southington: recreation Director files labor complaint over overtime. And this is the fellow whose wife was permitted to work for the town as well. Times are tough, and this sort of thing, not surprisingly, is up for tightening. But there’s a procedure for doing this sort of thing, surely, and it's too bad that the situation seems to have gotten way out of control.

Wallingford: an examination of accounts, while interesting and raising questions of procedures, is likely to be tedious.

Meriden: golf irrigation project approved with golfers footing the bill. Let’s hope there turns out to be no need for blasting.

Meriden: tougher policy seems to have improved attendance at high schools, which is all to the good.

Meriden: City’s cultural center facing some revenue issues, which will hopefully be alleviated through the annual appeal.

Wallingford: Work progressing on Superintendent search, but it might be good not to refer to the eventual nominee as the “ideal” superintendent, which kind of sets whoever it turns out to be up for a fall.

Wallingford: charter revision. Looks like a major effort, but I wonder if the commission needs to be working on details of personnel and pensions. Do such technical things need to be in the charter at all, considering their propensity to change? And there is still room to differ on the premise that the charter needs to be reworked merely because it hasn’t been done recently.