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October 14, 2008
Fosters
Longer terms for Rochester city councilors? Where is the consensus calling for it?
It was a topic raised at a recent “Meeting with the Mayor” — one of the monthly opportunities for Mayor John Larochelle’s constituents to confront him or simply converse with the city’s highest elected official. With only the mayor and three other persons in attendance, last month’s meeting seemed to fall into the conversational category.
Four-year terms for the mayor and city councilors and elected board members?
“If I had my way the terms would be four years,” Larochelle said, “but it would be on an alternating cycle so every two years half of the members would be up for re-election.
October 13, 2008
Union Leader
ROCHESTER – How much–or more precisely, how little–the state should spend as the economy continues to sour is a prime issue in the election for senate District Six as challenger Fenton Groen seeks to unseat incumbent Sen. Jackie Cilley.
Cilley, a Barrington Democrat, says she hopes to retain the seat she won two years ago so she can address the oncoming economic issues the state is facing. As owner of the small business Horseshoes Plus in Barrington and an adjunct business professor at the University of New Hampshire, Cilley says she is uniquely qualified.
July 7, 2008
Fosters
ROCHESTER — Councilors’ recent discussion about their goals for the city and manager provided a sobering look at what can’t be done following deep cuts to the approved budget.
City Manager John Scruton said helping the economic development commission fill and redevelop empty space should be “dropped.” The council cut funds to set up a lease system with startup businesses downtown.
June 10, 2008
Fosters
ROCHESTER — Nearly 30 city employees want to form a management union, just as the City Council considers cuts that could cost workers their jobs.
Employment uncertainty due to the proposed budget apparently factored into the group’s decision. “Everybody is going to have to speak for themselves, but it seems to me that it’s hard to understate the significance of the challenge the City Council is facing this year,” said Planning Director Kenn Ortmann, representative of the Rochester Municipal Management Group.
There’s also the issue of equity. “Benefits that have been accrued to unionized groups have been better, at least marginally better, than what has been accrued to nonunionized groups,” Ortmann said. “While there was general parity, if there was any slippage at all it happened with the nonunion group as opposed to the union group.”