Category Archives: DPW

A Simple Ask After Town Meeting: Adopt and Post Annual Goals (Update)

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This is an update to my February 20 post. Selectboard goals are on the agenda for the March 25 meeting. Here are four Town priorities I suggested in an email that is at page 202 of the meeting packet. Project Plan for DPW Garage. The DPW garage may be in greater need of repair and improvement than Tracy Hall. There has also been longstanding discussion about the need for additional covered storage so that DPW equipment is no longer left Continue reading A Simple Ask After Town Meeting: Adopt and Post Annual Goals (Update)→

Random Notes and Comments: 10-25 Selectboard meeting

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My collection of random comments, notes and thoughts after watching the video recording of the October 25 Norwich Selectboard meeting. Secrecy still shrouds appointment of TM In a prior post, I listed some of the superb questions a resident posed to the Selectboard about the ‘emergency’ appointment of a permanent town manager to a 3-year term. The Selectboard declined to respond to those questions, after asking that they be submitted in writing. Chair Marcia Calloway asked the Board if anyone Continue reading Random Notes and Comments: 10-25 Selectboard meeting→

Town to hire an HR professional to “investigate complaints”

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What is up with the work environment provided by Norwich town government to its employees? In addition to problems at the DPW garage, other personnel issues have apparently attracted the interest of the Selectboard. I say ‘apparently’ because the Selectboard is saying little, after an executive session lasting more than an hour on April 13. The problem is serious enough that the Selectboard plans to hire “an HR professional to investigate complaints” and “to assist the town in building a Continue reading Town to hire an HR professional to “investigate complaints”→