Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Sat., May 16, 2009

Meriden: New MHA director will pursue updates at Mills Apartments, even though the ultimate plan would be to remove them and substitute some other form of housing, through Hope grant, section 8 housing or whatever. That’s years off at least, and Mills cannot be left to deteriorate.

Southington: no rules broken, but the judgment was poor. Okay, so now it’s time to put this situation back together again. Does anyone in Southington have any ideas?

Southington: reimbursement policies for town councilors. By all means, discuss it if there’s a felt need. But if tuxedos are required and someone doesn’t own one, renting it seems legitimate.

Wallingford: no smoking gun appears to emerge about the GOP vote which dumped Councilor LeTourneau, so maybe it’s a matter of who shows up.

Wallingford: the ATF raid seems to have been rather excessively alarming to all concerned.

State: lawmakers and unions have now agreed to concessions which will save some $700,000 over the next three budget years. This leaves the legislature and the governor only $0.2 billion apart — or $200 million — on the $38 billion budget: that’s some sort of progress.

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