Sunday, February 17, 2013
According to a copy of the contract, Narragansett’s interim town manager will be paid $111,000 a year.
Based on a copy of the contract signed by Narragansett interim town manager Richard Kerbel and sent to Patch, he will make a yearly salary of about $111,000 – $2.134.62 a week – in the position. According to dates in the contract, Kerbel and the town council president, James Callaghan, signed it on Feb. 7 in front of two witnesses. The contract agreement was first drawn up on Feb. 5. Most of the contract’s items were already benefits received either by former town manager Grady Miller, or former interim town manager and current police chief Dean Hoxsie. Other provisions and clauses in the contract: The council has a work session on Hurricane Sandy clean-up scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Both …
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Unless the Narragansett Town Council is unable to reach an agreement with Richard Kerbel, he will take over as interim town manager from Narragansett Police Chief Dean Hoxsie.
NARRAGANSETT - About an hour after he received a standing ovation from residents, the Narragansett Town Council voted 3-2 to essentially remove interim town manager Dean Hoxsie from the position. In his place, the council appointed Richard Kerbel as interim manager, which elicited a mixture of surprise and laments from the crowd of about 80 that stayed until the end of Monday night's meeting. As councilors hastily voted to adjourn the meeting moments after the vote, one person from the stunned crowd yelled, “You should be ashamed,” which was preceded and followed by murmuring and light booing. The appointment is contingent on Kerbel reaching agreement on a contract with the town, but that appears to be a formality based on comments by the …
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Near the end of a meeting Monday night, the council agrees to interview town manager candidates in private the next two Saturdays.
NARRAGANSETT – By a 4-1 vote and after 40 minutes of debate on Monday night, the Narragansett Town Council agreed to interview candidates in a private executive session for its open town manager position on Saturday, Jan. 12, and if needed, Jan. 19. Councilor Matthew Mannix was the lone vote against, with councilors James Callaghan, Douglas McLaughlin, Glenna Hagopian and Susan Cicilline Buonanno voting for. The interviews are expected to be held sometime between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. on those Saturdays. Mannix said he objected to having the meeting in an executive session, and said candidates should instead be interviewed in front of residents, given the past issues the town had had with managers. “Do I know there are drawbacks to this? Yes I…
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The town clerk swears in a new school committee and town council before a two-hour meeting.
In the first act of business at Monday’s Narragansett Town Council meeting, Narragansett Town Clerk Anne Irons swore in the members of the school committee and town council for new two-year terms. (In case you missed that whole election thing in early November, you can find recaps here and here.) The council voted 5-0 to make James Callaghan council president, and 4-1 to make Susan Cicilline-Buonanno council vice president. Former council president Glenna Hagopian was the vote against. Callaghan thanked former councilors David Crook, Alisa Trainor Fleet and Chris Wilkens for their service. Crook and Fleet did not win re-election to the council, while Wilkens chose to run against Teresa Tanzi for a General Assembly seat and also lost. In …
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Friday, October 26, 2012
We have the full, hour-long video from the Narragansett Town Council forum on Wednesday night.
Couldn't make it out to hear the forum for Narragansett Town Council candidates on Wednesday night? Have no fear! Thanks to the League of Women Voters, we're able to provide a full copy of that forum, which featured nine of the 10 candidates for office. The video is attached to this story. If you can't watch it on here for some reason, the forums are also being run back on both the Cox and Verizon cable systems. So, pull up a chair and take part in the democratic process! Want to be e-mailed when we have new election coverage? Click the "keep me posted!" button below. Want our election hub page, with all of the other forum videos and profiles of the candidates? Click here! Note: We should also have the Narragansett School Committee forum …
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Friday, June 1, 2012
In a marathon meeting, the Narragansett Town Council is pilloried by residents before finally formally accepting a termination agreement for Grady Miller.
An exhausting, three-hour plus meeting for Narragansett Town Council members and the public on Thursday night finally culminated with the end of Grady Miller as town manager, and Police Chief Dean Hoxsie taking over for now. Ultimately, the council voted 4-1 to accept a termination agreement negotiated with Miller during executive session. Councilors Glenna Hagopian, David Crook, Alisa Trainor Fleet and Christopher Wilkens voted to accept the termination agreement, with councilor Susan Cicilline-Buonanno voting against. Wilkens noted that he was voting for the agreement under duress. “If we don’t agree to these terms, it’s clear he’ll just be fired,” Wilkens said. Throughout Thursday’s meeting, it was established that a three-person …
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Narragansett Town Manager Grady Miller and the council have agreed to a termination pact that will pay him until April 2013.
Editor's note, 11:35 a.m. Friday - A new and longer version of this story can be found here. NARRAGANSETT – After about 50 minutes of executive session, the Narragansett Town Council announced that it had reached consensus with Town Manager Grady Miller on a termination agreement. According to Town Solicitor Mark McSally, the agreement will pay Miller through April 2013. Miller has accrued sick leave and vacation time that goes until September, followed by seven months severance, which would last until about April 2013. The decision was wildly unpopular with the crowd of about 125 people who showed up for the meeting. As they left for executive session, a chant of “Grady, Grady, Grady,” broke out, and councilors were frequently cut off by …
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The Narragansett Town Council will hold a special meeting on Thursday, in which it is expected to accept a termination agreement for manager Grady Miller, or to fire him.
According to an agenda posted on the Secretary of State’s website, the Narragansett Town Council will meet Thursday night to discuss the job performance and potentially fire Town Manager Grady Miller. See the attached PDF for details about the meeting. The advertisement for executive session reads that the council will “review the job performance of the Town Manager and to review a potential separation agreement in accordance with RI general laws.” Following executive session, the council will meet in open session to discuss a separation agreement with the town manager and to authorize the council president to sign it, suggesting that Miller’s fate is already sealed. If the council doesn’t approve the separation agreement, there is a …
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Narragansett Town Council asks solicitor Mark McSally to investigate whether Town Manager Grady Miller violated town bylaws or state law in shifting budget monies.
By a 3-2 vote and against the general comments of residents, and with Town Manager Grady Miller absent because of a family emergency, the Narragansett Town Council approved a motion at Monday night’s meeting to have the solicitor investigate whether Miller broke town budget regulations. Councilors Glenna Hagopian, David Crook and Alisa Trainor Fleet voted in favor of the motion. Councilors Christopher Wilkens and Susan Cicilline-Buonanno voted against it. Miller was unable to speak in his defense at Monday night’s meeting because of a family emergency. The council met at 6 p.m., prior to the regularly scheduled 7:30 p.m. meeting, for a work session on a study of the town’s fire department. At about 6:25 p.m., a family member of Miller …
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
After additional information comes to light during Monday’s meeting, the Narragansett Town Council decides to wait before taking any action.
The fate of any sort of investigation into Narragansett Town Manager Grady Miller’s actions will have to wait at least two weeks, as the town council voted on Monday night to continue the matter to its April 2 meeting. At issue is whether Miller acted inappropriately in shifting $3,000 for the Narrow River Preservation Association from the special appropriations budget to the wastewater budget for the 2011-12 budget. Council president Glenna Hagopian put the matter on the agenda for Monday’s meeting, asking the town solicitor for a review of the budget shift. She also made the most critical remarks of Miller at the meeting, and in several memos she authored before the meeting. “I found this troubling and confusing,” she said. “The …
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Marie
5:42 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Agreed Mr. Riley... but will the Dems on this Council do this? The unions have three votes now... and are ostriches. more ›