Meeting Reveals Little
A double meeting Monday held no revelations for a dozen or so regular City Council attendees, nor for some Plainfield Municipal Employees Association members who are hoping to avoid layoffs.
The City Council met in closed session with potential nominees for cabinet posts to be approved Jan. 1, but only a few hints on the 2010 cabinet emerged, one being that Martin Hellwig is expected to stay on in the combined role of Police Director/Director of Public Affairs & Safety. Jennifer Wenson Maier, currently head of Public Works & Urban Development, and Bibi Taylor, director of Administration, Finance, Health & Human Services were both on hand.
The mystery is who will replace City Administrator Marc Dashield, who is the newly-hired township manager for Montclair.
Nominees will be presented at the Jan. 1 reorganization meeting. No time has yet been announced for the meeting.
The City Council will also name official newspapers and banks, and will confirm numerous other appointments at the Jan. 1 meeting.
An earlier hearing on the SFY 2010 introduced budget drew comments from Plainfield Municipal Employees Association members who deplored layoffs from the city's lowest-paid ranks, while top employees and other unions are not affected. While negotiations are still underway, no concession have been announced for Fire or Police divisions, which account for most of the city's salary costs.
Amendments to the budget that began July 1 have yet to be announced, but once stated, will trigger another public hearing before final passage.
--Bernice Paglia
The City Council met in closed session with potential nominees for cabinet posts to be approved Jan. 1, but only a few hints on the 2010 cabinet emerged, one being that Martin Hellwig is expected to stay on in the combined role of Police Director/Director of Public Affairs & Safety. Jennifer Wenson Maier, currently head of Public Works & Urban Development, and Bibi Taylor, director of Administration, Finance, Health & Human Services were both on hand.
The mystery is who will replace City Administrator Marc Dashield, who is the newly-hired township manager for Montclair.
Nominees will be presented at the Jan. 1 reorganization meeting. No time has yet been announced for the meeting.
The City Council will also name official newspapers and banks, and will confirm numerous other appointments at the Jan. 1 meeting.
An earlier hearing on the SFY 2010 introduced budget drew comments from Plainfield Municipal Employees Association members who deplored layoffs from the city's lowest-paid ranks, while top employees and other unions are not affected. While negotiations are still underway, no concession have been announced for Fire or Police divisions, which account for most of the city's salary costs.
Amendments to the budget that began July 1 have yet to be announced, but once stated, will trigger another public hearing before final passage.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 10:22 PM
3 Comments:
Negotiations are underway - What's to be negotiated? Unions will not go along with cutbacks or furloughs. State employees are not getting cost of living raises, retired workers are not getting cost of living raises so just renew contracts as what they are and freeze salaries for 1 year and come back to the table again prior to 2011.
It is the FY 2010 budget
Thanks, I fixed it.
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