Meriden: Clearly, prompt payment of all municipal taxes and fees is necessary. It is not good that the water department has some cash flow difficulties. Getting 250 people to pay up the last half year on rates, if they all pay $300 nets only $75,000. It’s one thing to be serious and another to be tough for the sake of toughness.
State/Wallingford: While it’s certainly nice that the federal government is setting up its disaster relief operation in Wallingford and sending 80 to 100 folks to run it, it’s getting a little hard to remember when the disaster to which Uncle Sam is responding took place. Of course, we weren’t hard hit, but still, it’s been a month since the second storm.
Milford/Wallingford: it’s okay that other towns are looking at the notion of reconfiguration or realignment of elementary grades as Wallingford did. However, as we said before, making such a change solely to save a little cash without any serious demonstration of an educational policy seems likely to do little in that department but create more educational age-ghettos.
Meriden: while it’s fine that the city administration and the school system have worked out a deal on handling this year’s school “surplus,” which should reduce the number of layoffs, it seems that too much focus on that “surplus” is not really called for.
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