What is wrong in Southington?

The only thing worse than Southington department heads hiring their wives to work in their offices is that the department heads involved, William Masci and Richard Egidio, don’t believe they did anything wrong. That should make every taxpayer in Southington worry about the kind of leadership being provided by the Town Manager, Town Council and other town boards. This kind of nepotism doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It exists where it is tolerated by administrators, elected and appointed officials charged with overseeing town government. In the same front page article, we also learned that the town is paying town employees $90 an hour to chaperone middle school dances. As with the secretarial work, these approximately $40-an-hour jobs aren’t being offered to the general public, but being given to town employees, some already earning lucrative salaries. The town should be paying about half that much for the work and should be opening it up to others. A pretty active forum on the story has emerged on the MyRecordJournal forum section. One writer believe the practice of hiring wives and paying them nearly $24 an hour for secretarial work went on for longer than has been reported. Just click on “Forums” and then “Story of the Day.” Let me know what you think.