First Meeting and School Building Committee

First Meeting and Info on the New School Building Committee

Season’s Greetings from the Leng Family!

I thought I would take a few moments to write about the first Council meetings of the new session for the 2005-2007 term.

The first meeting set-up the leadership - returning were the entire team from last term:

Al Gorman – Council President
Carol Noble – President Pro Tem
Matt Fitch – Majority Leader
Betty Wetmore – Minority Leader

The team is a good one, with dedicated, hard working council members and I think they will be great for the new Administration to work with.

At this meeting, President Gorman announced that he was appointing me as the School Building Committee Chairman. I was honored to be placed in such an important role of responsibility and look forward to working with school, Town and construction professionals to make sure that our School Building improvements occur on-time and on-budget. I am very much looking forward to this new assignment.

At the second meeting we got down to regular business and tackled the agenda that I posted here earlier. Nearly all the items passed, with the exception of a request for a large financial transfer for a “change order” payment for Center One construction that was approved for way more than it should have been by a previous Administration individual. The Council tabled this item pending some additional back-up.

We saw some significant comings and goings at the meeting, as well.

Longtime Traffic Director Lee Davies and Police Chief Robert Nolan, both excellent Department Heads, retired and collected their accrued benefits. I decided to abstain from the vote because there were some questions about the Comp Time policy that I don’t think the Town was able to answer clearly. Though I abstained, I think both of these men, along with the rest of the retirement group, Skip Dunham and others, were terrific Town workers and I hope they enjoy their retirement.

Coming onboard on the new team was Mike Betz, our new Finance Director, and Leslie Creane, the Assistant Town Planner who was promoted to Town Planner.


I look forward to working with both of them. They each have serious challenges to face in their respective Departments and I think they are up to the task. It was certainly nice to have a Finance Director with over a decade of municipal Finance Experience being recommended for assignment at our first meeting. This was an impressive beginning to the Henrici Administration.

In my next posting I will talk about my other Committee assignments so that you know what I will be working on and where I might be most helpful working with you.

As always, please continue to call and write – councilmancurtleng@sbcglobal.net .

Enjoy and be careful with the snow,

Curt