Tonight’s meeting was short, and I didn’t attend as a blogger as I was in the middle of something else. Feel free to use this thread for Common Council comments though.
I. ROLL CALL
II. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES
Regular meeting – March 25, 2008
III. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
IV. MAYOR
A. RESIGNATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Resignations:
Appointments:
Reappointments: Carol Frank - Fair Housing Advisory Commission
Rev Jeffrey Ingraham – Fair Housing Advisory Commission
<s>Steven Bentkover – Parking Authority</s> withdrawn
John Atkin – Water Pollution Control Authority
<s>Douglas Hempstead – Water Pollution Control Authority</s> Andy Conroy instead
Friedrich Wilms – Water Pollution Control Authority
With summer around the corner, the hint of a great line up of concerts beckons. April has been officially declared Jazz Appreciation Month and the Norwalk Symphony lands a grant to expand its audience. First from the Hour:
“We should appreciate one of America’s home treasures — jazz came from America,” said Mayor Richard A. Moccia, before three local musicians took over. “Jazz is an original American art form that affirms the noblest aspirations of our national character.”
Moccia later read a proclamation declaring April Jazz Appreciation Month in Norwalk.
Norwalk is pumping too much nitrogen into the sound and $144 million is needed to upgrade the plant. The Hour reports:
“There is a financial model that was prepared by an outside consultant for the Water Pollution Control Authority,” said Thomas S. Hamilton, the city’s director of finance, speaking to the Common Council’s Planning Committee last Thursday night. “The financial model indicates that with sewer-user fees in the range of 6-percent per-year increases, that the revenues to the WPCA will be sufficient to repay the debt associated with that project. A $144-million project is going to impact sewer-user rates going into the future. It’s estimated at about 6 to 6.5-percent annual increases for a six-year period.”
