CLAREMONT The City Council last week took another step toward privatizing operation of the city’s transfer station and recycling center, with the approval of proposal to seek out a company to take over management of the facility.The council also.
Published: 7/8/2021 9:59:56 PM
Modified: 7/8/2021 10:00:05 PM
Vote ‘yes’ to keep town manager plan in Hanover
During all-day voting at Hanover’s upcoming annual Town Meeting on Tuesday, voters are asked through a petitioned warrant article (No. 5): “Do you favor the continuation of the town manager plan as now in force in this town?” The Hanover Finance Committee, at a meeting on June 14, unanimously answered in the affirmative and urges Hanover voters to do likewise.
Unsaid in the article itself, the alternative is a town administrator, typically with more limited authority, and putting more responsibility with the Selectboard. In the opinion of the Finance Committee, governance and fiscal oversight are improved with a clean separation of executive and oversight duties, akin to the separation of the CEO and board chair roles in a corporate setting.