Snow removal budgets are drawn down this month, whether the budget was high (Southington …$705,000) or low (Cheshire … $261,000) or somewhere in between (Meriden …$500,000, Wallingford … $508,000). There’s no way to predict a season total, and aside from prayer, or snow removal insurance, if you’re on a pay-as-you-go system, this is bound to happen.
That 90-day rule for filling established yet empty jobs in the city of Meriden may have had some merit when staffing levels could be called “high.” However, after several years of trimming, that is hardly the case today, and empty jobs can only result in angry phone calls from citizens waiting for services . . . which could, of course, always be funneled to those who insist in the 90-day rule.
That plan for Southington's North Center School is either a shell game for out flanking citizens who righteously and repeatedly oppose an outrageously expensive building for town employees or a well-conceived plan for moving ahead to replace outmoded structures economically and securing up-to-date quarters worthy of a 21st century community. Actually, both options are probably correct.
It is good that the Meriden City Council’s Finance Committee is taking another look at the Church & Morse building, not to mention the decision to move forward with architectural plans for Platt and Maloney. Every penny spent impacts taxpayers, but some pennies – and some millions – just have to be spent.
It was good that a suspected leak of CO2 was reported at Lincoln Middle School in Meriden this week (it is good that people are watching) and even better that the suspicion turned out to be incorrect.
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