First off, welcome to Six Square, the New London blog here on Zip06, courtesy of your friends at The Day Publishing Company.
Yes, Zip06 is a strange name for a Web site, but then again Yahoo and Google aren’t exactly Acme Internet Co., are they?
So, feel free to wander around Zip06 and read stories from the Times and Shore Publishing weekly papers – we’ve got a fantastic stable of staff writers and contributors.
Anyway, Six Square. This blog will seek to enhance New London news coverage by being a complement to the both The Day and the Times.
There’s so much going on in New London these days -- the NLDC parting ways with Corcoran Jennison; Councilor Michael Buscetto shaking up the City Council; plus non-political stories such as the neighborhood clean up last week and, of course, the Bank Street Blob.
Six Square will hope to foster irreverent, but intelligent, discussion about upcoming agenda items for City Council and Board of Education meetings, and other major issues in town.
For instance, Superintendent of Schools Christopher Clouet announced yesterday that the public schools are thinking of hiring a dean of students to help oversee the new Jennings School when it opens in September.
But here’s an interesting, if not hopelessly wonky, item: the consolidation of the BOE’s legal and financial services with the City of New London. This is something both the school board and City Council has talked about for years. Somewhere in the Amazon of Press Releases on my desk at NL Times HQ is a consolidation report done during Richard Brown’s last few years as City Manager.
The BOE is proposing an Ad Hoc committee to study merging the town and school departments and report to the school board in November. It could be a cost saving measure for the financially strapped city. It’s also an opportunity to use Latin terms, such as “ad hoc.” People like that.
Also, tonight the board will discuss Clouet’s evaluation in that mysterious realm known as executive session.