Cranston
According to a Projo article by Randy Edgar: The [Cranston] School Department will pay outgoing Supt. M. Richard Scherza $25,000 this summer to work as a consultant and help with the transition to a new superintendent, according to an agreement signed last month. Scherza will work on an as-needed basis during July and August, providing…
Randal Edgar of the Projo captures both the tone and content of last night’s Cranston City Council meeting, where the Council seems to have decided how they will “close” Cranston’s budget deficit: by assuming union concessions that have not yet been obtained…The City Council charted a financial course Tuesday that differs sharply from the wishes…
Focusing mainly on the local controversy, journalist Randal Edgar didn’t ask why this should be true: Dennis B. Langley, president and CEO of the Urban League of Rhode Island, which runs Harrington Hall, played down the concerns, saying the shelter, which opened as a permanent center in 2003, has housed sex offenders for years. The…
Here’s an eye-popper: Cranston spends more than a fifth of its total budget on pensions (not including teachers). Nine municipalities spend over 10%. While Rhode Island’s political leaders wrestle with state pension reform, there’s another big pension headache out there — the soaring cost of municipal pensions. A new study by the business-backed Rhode Island…
Combining Randal Edgar‘s story in today’s Projo on the likely next step that follows the inability of the parties(*) in Cranston to agree upon a new police contract via negotiation…After watching a tentative contract go down to defeat, the police officers union is taking its case to a new venue that could ultimately cost taxpayers…
The full Cranston City Council has rejected a modified version of the tentative agreement reached between the administration of Mayor Allan Fung and the city’s police officers union. Several amendments were made to the original agreement and the Mayor and members of his administration discussed the changes with the Council in an executive session that…
Entering last night’s Cranston City Finance Committee meeting, both Mayor Allan Fung and the members of the city’s police officer’s union had hopes that a set of proposed changes to the recently-tabled tentative agreement would produce a contract acceptable to the Finance Committee. However, for reasons that are not fully understood, the Committee has declined…
There was one bit of news that emerged from last night’s Cranston City Council meeting on FY2010 budget. Speaking during the public comment section, Cranston firefighters union President Paul Valletta stated that his union has a deal on the table with Mayor Allan Fung’s administration that involves $350,000 in concessions for this fiscal year and…
Speaking to Cranston Herald reporter Laura Lee Costello, Cranston City Council Finance Chairman Emilio Navarro had this to say about the projected savings in the police union contract negotiated by Mayor Allan Fung…Navarro said the mayor’s contentions regarding the police agreement were baseless. He argued that the savings of $460,000 were not substantial enough to…
Readers may be aware that I have been somewhat critical of the Cranston City Council’s tabling of the police union contract recently negotiated by Mayor Allan Fung. Since I believe it’s flat-out wimpy to be in a room with officials you have recently criticized without offering them a chance to respond, after last night’s City…