Southington Town Attorney Mark Sciota responded to a town councilor unambiguously regarding salaries of non-union board of education employees. Councilors have no say – zero – in the matter, unless someone wants to go and amend the charter. It may not be the best possible way to go, but it is the law at present.
Connecticut’s legislature is taking a look at the death penalty once again. While there is much to be said for and against both how state law now operates and the penalty itself, polls show pretty consistently that citizens want the option to continue, even if rarely used. Why, therefore, subject everyone to a bruising battle, wasteful of much political capital, when it’s not necessary?
Preliminarily, the figures in Meriden City Manager Kendzior’s budget for next year seem tolerable, with about a half mill increase in property tax rates, which, by itself, seems reasonable. But so much of the budget is contingent upon state actions that we’re still in the dark about – and the school system has yet to make its case.
Our sympathy goes to all those whose homes and businesses have faced watery inundation this week in our section of mid-Connecticut along the Quinnipiac and its tributaries. Between snow removal budgets, roof collapses, potholes and now floods, this certainly has been a winter to remember!
Wallingford’s American Legion building: it cannot be razed, it cannot be used, it cannot be hidden so it better be sold.
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