City Councilor Ken Cockayne just told me the session he held with Board of Education member Chris Wilson and Board of Finance member Don Soucy to come up with names to fill vacancies on the West Bristol School Building Committee wasn’t done properly.
He said that because the meeting wasn’t posted at City Hall, its action are invalid.
“That’s why we need to hold another meeting,” the freshman city councilor said.
So the names the three men selected, Ellen Zoppo and Ken Johnson, are no longer officially on the table.
Besides, Cockayne said, he’s heard that Zoppo isn’t ready to serve because she decided it could conflict with her new position at the Family Center. He said Johnson is still interested, however.
After hearing that Zoppo wasn’t interested, Cockayne said he phoned Mayor Art Ward to let the mayor know he would back Jody Trestman, one of the two people Ward wants on the panel.
“That’s where we stand,” Cockayne said, with no picks truly made and no decisions firmed up.
He said the trio who get to nominate school building panel members are “going to wait until after the holidays” to hold meeting that will be posted properly in order to make picks that have legal meaning.
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7 comments:
Cliff Block just succeeded in making himself the last person the Mayor will every trust.
Nice job Block - you better get used to being on the sewer committee!
wouldn't surprise me to see him taken off a few committees like the Board of Education or the Fire Board - will be well deserved.
Appoint TWO women to provide some balance!!!!
just heard that ward DID submit the names of two women to cockayne to bring to the committee but neither was acknowledged.
SHAME SHAME on Cockayne!!!
As I posted elsewhere on here today: "Ward, however, is backing two different people, about whom I'll write later."
There's only so much I could get done today!
Jody Trestman worked for Ellen's campaign so as soon as the background check is done on her she will be off the potential list.
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