The longtime chairman of the city’s Board of Finance is likely to be reappointed Tuesday to another four-year term on the volunteer fiscal watchdog panel.
Mayor Art Ward said he plans to ask city councilors to tap Miecznikowski for another stint on the nine-person board.
But, he said, he won’t ask the council to reappoint veteran finance commissioner Don Soucy for another term.
“I’m not surprised I’m not being reappointed. To the victors go the spoils,” said Soucy.
Miecznikowski said he expects “a very, very difficult year next year” as the city tries to cope with the recession.
Soucy, whose term expires at month’s end, has said for months that he didn’t expect to be reappointed.
A champion for education spending, he is one of a group of fiscal overseers who have shown a willingness to hike the school budget.
“If something was accomplished while I was on the board, I think the Board of Ed has received some good increases. Frankly, I wish they received more than they did,” Soucy said.
Ward said he'll ask interested independents and Republicans to apply for the post and pick someone this summer to take Soucy's slot.
There is a legal requirement that city boards have representatives who do not hail from the majority party in control of power at City Hall so officials are sometimes forced to pick people from a particular party.
Soucy was originally appointed by former Mayor Gerard Couture to fill a vacancy on the board and later given a full term on the panel.
He said that he is happy he got a chance to serve.
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June 22, 2007
Don Soucy posing with his fish
That's the biggest cold fish I've seen since Nixon's presidency.
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Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
June 21, 2007
Sit right back and you'll hear a tale...
Anyone of my generation knows better than to get on a small fishing boat for a short cruise because there's always chance that it will prove a fateful trip and the tiny craft will be tossed up on an uncharted island.
But Frank Johnson, the city's zoning kingpin, and Don Soucy, who heads the Little League empire on Mix Street, are either a little too old or the Tao of Gilligan didn't sink in.
The pair chartered a boat yesterday to go fishing out on Long Island Sound.
Johnson said he caught a couple of modest-sized fish - which proves he's no fisherman, since ALL fish are big - but Soucy came up with a 45-pound sea bass that's "enough meat for a month."
There were four out-of-towners aboard as well, but who cares about them?
The whole thing, though, does raise the question of what would have happened if the vessel had run up onto an unnoticed Thimble Island and the passengers and crew had been left to their own wits to survive.
Would Johnson have been Gilligan or the Professor? Would Soucy be the Skipper or Mr. Howell? And who would have been Ginger or Mary Ann? Maybe that last question is best not asked.
In any case, I'm guessing that a modern-day shipwreck with these guys aboard would have been more like "Lost" than "Gilligan's Island."
Or perhaps it would have turned out like a real-life game of "Survivor" with only one guy standing when the Coast Guard finally showed up to rescue them. Would Soucy or Johnson wind up on top?
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Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
But Frank Johnson, the city's zoning kingpin, and Don Soucy, who heads the Little League empire on Mix Street, are either a little too old or the Tao of Gilligan didn't sink in.
The pair chartered a boat yesterday to go fishing out on Long Island Sound.
Johnson said he caught a couple of modest-sized fish - which proves he's no fisherman, since ALL fish are big - but Soucy came up with a 45-pound sea bass that's "enough meat for a month."
There were four out-of-towners aboard as well, but who cares about them?
The whole thing, though, does raise the question of what would have happened if the vessel had run up onto an unnoticed Thimble Island and the passengers and crew had been left to their own wits to survive.
Would Johnson have been Gilligan or the Professor? Would Soucy be the Skipper or Mr. Howell? And who would have been Ginger or Mary Ann? Maybe that last question is best not asked.
In any case, I'm guessing that a modern-day shipwreck with these guys aboard would have been more like "Lost" than "Gilligan's Island."
Or perhaps it would have turned out like a real-life game of "Survivor" with only one guy standing when the Coast Guard finally showed up to rescue them. Would Soucy or Johnson wind up on top?
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Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.
Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
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