Reorg Tonight

The City Council’s annual reorganization meeting will take place at 8 p.m. tonight (Jan. 8, 2007) at Municipal Court, 325 Watchung Ave.

The meeting will include a State of the City address by Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs.

The council will choose a president for the year and a chairperson of the committee of the whole. Rashid Burney and Rayland Van Blake, both of whom won re-election in November, will be sworn in for four-year terms. Municipal judges and legal officials will be sworn in and many organizational decisions, such as naming official banks and newspapers, will be made.

Appointments will be made to numerous boards and commissions. The council will also adopt a calendar of meetings for 2007.

The reorganization has traditionally also brought out all the local pundits and watchdogs to give their takes on how the city is doing. Expect some political posturing and prognostication as well. No popcorn allowed.

--Bernice Paglia