The evening of 2023-01-02 was a meeting of the Mendon Town Board.
Of note, first time this group has been back in Town Hall in a while. Seems like they wanted to have the transition match with the calendar year. And it was for the annual Organizational Meeting, so much longer agenda then a normal meeting. Although they made pretty good time.
There was an amusing discussion around holidays. The Town Office has 13 dates listed, while the Highway Department has 14. Which has employee handbook implications, as that states 13. It took some effort for the group to navigate this inconsistency. In the end, they left everything as stated, with the intent to look into it more during the year. The choice will likely boil down to either adding a holiday to the office and changing the handbook to match, or removing a holiday from the highway department and leaving the handbook as is.
The school is arranging a bus to shuttle kids to the Mendon Youth Center. I think this is starting tomorrow, but I may have misheard. Either way, should be available soon.
In the interests of full disclosure, I was reappointed as the Town of Mendon Zoning Board Chair.
And those are my Observations From Audience Land for the January 2, 2023 meeting of the Mendon Town Board.