Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Wed., Oct. 19, 2011

There’s just no judging results of any audit of anyone, Wallingford Housing Authority or anyone else, before that audit is released. We await with interest that report.

“Sloper After School,” created by Southington’s YMCA as a way of bringing kids to Sloper, to outdoor activity and to the skate board park, seems to have hit a nail on the head. The camp gets used and kids have a good time.

Southington Planning and Zoning is considering a future for the West Street. It’s a subject about which residents of that area should take a keen interest.

The number of large classes across Meriden’s school system has decreased, a welcome piece of news indeed, even if the average size stayed about even. It’s a difficult balancing act, but it seems to have worked out well this year.

It takes a while to figure out the exact cost of disasters such as Irene, but the figures eventually emerge. In Wallingford, that figure seems to have been about half a million dollars – and unfortunately, it isn’t one about which there can be much negotiation or planning.

Literacy Volunteers are now at home at 14 West Main Street, Meriden, former banking headquarters, There’s a certain ironic pleasantry about that location, in light of the protests to “occupy Wall Street.”

The key word in the councils which will be set up soon in several Meriden schools and in schools across the state (part of “race to the top” which netted Connecticut no grants whatever) is “governance.” If it were “governing,” we would anticipate change, but with “governance,” each council is on its own to make its views count.

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