Our First Meeting as a newly constituted City Council with our 3 new members of Brenna Murphy, Aaron Vega and Linda Vacon was held on January 5, 2010. Of note at the meeting was:
The City Council reappointed Deborah Brunelle as Assessor for a 3 year term.
Mark Naidorf was re-appointed to a 3 year term on the Water Commission.
The Council received a request from Mayor Pluta to create a PR24 position ($55,000) to create a 18 month assignment for a new Munis Administrator position. This new position was sent to the Ordinance Committee. It is argued that this position is needed in order to enable the city to upgrade its current Munis software and fully open up all of the many accountability features of the powerful Munis software program.
An additional request from the City Treasurer for $30,000 to continue the auditing of the Treasurer's office books was referred to the Finance Committee.
The City Council re-adopted its standing rules from last term for this term. There was a discussion about changing the meeting time from 7:30pm to 7:00pm. An order to do this is currently in the Ordinance Committee. A motion was made to remove the time change order from committee by Councilor Devine. Her motion was defeated by a vote of 7 yea and 8 nay (10 was required).
Roll Call as follows:
Yes: Devine, Leahy, McGee, Murphy, O'Neill, Tallman, Vega
No: Jourdain, Keane, Lisi, Lopez, McGiverin, Purington, Vacon, Welch
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