Local Officials Call on Assembly to Pass Chafee Municipal Relief Bills
Coventry Town Manager Thomas Hoover attended a press conference on Apr. 25 in advance of a House Finance Committee hearing scheduled for Thursday.
A group of officials from several communities gathered at the Johnston Senior Center on Wednesday for a press conference hosted by Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena, offering public appeals to the state General Assembly to pass Gov. Lincoln Chafee's package of municipal relief bills. "None of us here — I know I don't, and I'm sure the rest of us don't — want Bob Flanders coming into our communities," Polisena explained, referring to the state-assigned receiver who is overseeing the fiscal crisis in Central Falls. "We don't want to see another community go bankrupt." Flanked by officials from Johnston, as well as visiting mayors, council members, and administrators representing towns across Rhode Island, Polisena explained that the enabling …
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