Citizen reminder:
Paris Selectmen meet Monday 11-09-09
7PM Paris Fire Station
Come if you can. It looks as if all selectmen will be able to be present and accounted for this meeting.
Perhaps the message has become clear that citizens are watching the gears moving the machine that runs the Town of Paris. There have consistently been more than 40 interested citizens at the regularly scheduled selectmen meetings for several months now; and the administration has automatically scheduled the last 2 in succession for the meeting room at the Paris fire station.
[The town office meeting room has a capacity of only 50: 5 selectmen; town manager; 2 reporters; a cameraman from NPCTV; a policeman, or two; leaving room for 40 interested citizens at the most.]
There are some substantial topics on the agenda this time, including the executive session that is, according to the agenda, a discussion of applications for the new town manager position. Any decision made in that session - or any executive session - must be voted on in public after the session.
Will the salary under discussion be princely? Will the position offered be another interim one, in case April's court date for the pending law suit reveals a verdict of illegal firing of Sharon Jackson? And just how soon will this new person be hired? What else will this town manager be expected to do?
In the rush to get a new manager in place to help with the budget planning for fiscal year 2010-2011, beginning in March 2010, will any correct and careful procedures be overlooked in order to fill any private, personal agenda? Will the good of the whole town always be upermost in the minds of all the selectmen?
