City Council

JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORWICH October 11, 2011 A special meeting of the Council of the City of Norwich was held October 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers. Present: Aldermen Desaulniers, Braddock, Hinchey, and Mayor Nystrom. City Manager Bergren and Corporation Counsel Michael Driscoll were also in attendance. Absent: Alderwoman Caron and Alderman Nash. Mayor Nystrom presided. Ald. Desaulniers led the members in the Pledge of Allegiance. The special meeting was called to discuss the following: 1. To conduct a hearing to determine whether Sandra Greenhalgh shall continue in her employment as City Clerk or be removed from the position; a written notice of the intention of the Council to remove her, containing a clear statement of the grounds for such removal, and of the time and place of the hearing having been served upon her on September 23, 2011. Sandra Greenhalgh shall be given an opportunity at the hearing to be heard on the matter and to be represented by counsel. The grounds for removal are as follows: The grounds for removal are that on six (6) occasions over the last two (2) years you filed documents on the land records for personal business and failed to pay the filing fee at or near the time the documents were filed on the land records. On two (2) occasions during the same time period you filed documents on the land records for the benefit of both yourself and your daughter and failed to collect or pay the requisite filing fee. On one (1) occasion during the same time period you filed documents on the land records for the benefit of your daughter and failed to collect or pay the requisite filing fee. The applicable filings are listed below: 1. Subordination Agreement from Coreplus Federal Credit Union recorded on 5/26/2011 Recorded in Book 2677 Page 242-243 of the Norwich land records with receipt attached showing no recording fee was paid; 2. Release of Mortgage from Coreplus Federal Credit Union in favor of Sandy Greenhalgh recorded on 12/18/2009 in Book Page 191 of the Norwich land records with receipt attached showing no recording fee was paid; 3. Release of mortgage from Coreplus Federal Credit Union in favor of Sandra Greenhalgh recorded on 5/15/ 2009 at Book 2546 Page 320 of the Norwich land records with receipt attached showing no recording fee was paid; 4. Release of Mortgage from Sandra Greenhalgh in favor of Ivy Jordan recording on 10/12/2010 at Book 2641 Page 86 of the Norwich land records with receipt attached showing no recording fee was paid; 5. UCC financing Statement from Lighthouse Logging & Firewood LLC or Ivy Jordan in favor of Sandra Greenhalgh recorded on October 7, 2010 at Book 2640 Page 177 of the Norwich land records with receipt attached showing no recording fee was paid; 6. Certificate of Change of Name for Ivy Jordan recorded on 2/23/2010 at Book 2601 Page 141 of the Norwich land records with receipt showing no recording fee was paid; 1 JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORWICH October 11, 2011 7. Mortgage Deed from Ivy Jordan to Sandra Greenhalgh recorded on September 7, 2010 at Book 2635 Page 294 of the Norwich land records with receipt showing no recording fee was paid; 8. Release of Mortgage from the Norwich Federal Credit Union in favor of Sandra Greenhalgh recorded at 03:43:39 pm at Book 2676, Page 277 of the Norwich land records with receipt showing no recording fee was paid on date of filing; and 9. Release of Mortgage from Coreplus Federal Credit Union in favor of Sandy Greenhalgh recorded on May 17, 2011 at 02:54:28 p.m. at Book 2676, Page 272 of the Norwich land records with receipt showing no recording fee was paid at time of filing. 2. To consider, discuss and possibly take action on the removal of Sandra Greenhalgh from the position of City Clerk. EXECUTIVE SESSION – HEARING AND DISCUSSION CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT, EMPLOYMENT, PERFORMANCE, EVALUATION, HEALTH OR DISMISSAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OF NORWICH ADJOURNMENT Upon a motion of Ald. Desaulniers, seconded by Ald. Braddock it was unanimously voted to accept Sandra Greenhalgh’s letter of resignation effective October 11, 2011. Upon a motion of Ald. Popovich, seconded by Ald. Hinchey, it was unanimously voted to adjourn at 7:03 PM. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK 2