Today was the day I determined I was going to spend looking for additional viable freelance opportunities. (That means that the opp does not have a "no writing for the competition" clause.)
So far I've: watered and weeded the veggie garden, posted on here, talked to my neighbor about the muffler problem on the Jetta, gone to City Hall to pick up the City Council agenda for Tuesday's meeting ...
And that agenda is the subect of this post.
It's chock-full of nuts. Too bad I can only do 2 stories/wk. for the Current because there's about 4 in here.
1. The Treasurer is asking for $6,500 dollars for ... herself. Additional funding is required due to a salary differential and overlap that occurred between the retiring Treasurer and new incoming Treasurer, the explanation reads.
Wasn't the treasurer, Cheryl Robertson, already working in City Hall when she was named as Treasurer - what was that, six months ago?
That's a rhetorical question.
2. Amendment to the "traffic and motor vehicles" ordinance that will, I assume, put an end to those trucks advertising Germinara BioFuel that are parked in various places - or just one truck that moves around.
I know there was a flap on the Daily News comment thread about how ugly the truck is, but I never thought it would come to this!
Hmmmm ... didn't Germinara just start a parking lot at this business, for people who don't want to pay the MBTA to park in its lot since they doubled the fee?
3. A draft shared services agreement for health services between Newburyport, Amesbury and Salisbury.
The agreement covers public health, public health nurse and animal control services.
It looks as if Amesbury and Salisbury will be forking over $45,233 each to Newburyport for public health nurse services and health inspections and services, and Newburyport and Amesbury will owe Salisbury $8,047 each for animal control inspections and services, per year.
4. An order requiring retirees who become eligible for Medicare after adoption of this order (under M.G.L. Chapter 32B, Section 18A) to switch from the City's health plan to Medex.
See? Like I said, 4 things ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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Re "no writing for the competition": That's what pseudonyms are for. :-)
I find it interesting that there are complaints about the biofuel truck, but none about the waste removal truck that seems to be constantly parked near the fitness place.
There should be lots more regionalization. It is silly that each of our tiny towns maintains a complete set of services.
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