By JOHN HOWELL As a further indication of plans to build his own administrative team, Mayor Joseph Solomon has moved to replace Lyn Pagliarini as Warwick City Clerk. Pagliarini was informed of the decision Friday and was not present at Monday's City
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As a further indication of plans to build his own administrative team, Mayor Joseph Solomon has moved to replace Lyn Pagliarini as Warwick City Clerk. Pagliarini was informed of the decision Friday and was not present at Monday’s City Council meeting. Deputy Clerk Lynn D’Abrosca is filling the post for now, Solomon said Tuesday.
Solomon described Pagliarini’s departure as part of the “transition” following his election this fall. Solomon has filled the role of mayor since May when Scott Avedisian, who served for more than 18 years, resigned to take the post of president and CEO of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.
“It was done 18 and 20 years ago,” Solomon said of his actions to build his own team, adding, “It’s done at all levels of government.”
City Solicitor Peter Ruggiero left about two weeks ago, and last Friday Col. Stephen M. McCartney announced he would be retiring as of this Friday.
Asked what other personnel changes might be forthcoming, Solomon said he is talking with those in city positions and taking into consideration their requests should they want to be a part of his administration. He said he is looking for those who share his vision for the city and his ideals.
Avedisian named then-deputy clerk Pagliarini to succeed Judy Wild as clerk when Wild retired in October 2017.
Prior to being appointed deputy clerk in August 2016, Pagliarini spent some 25 years serving as an administrative assistant and professional transcriptionist in the legal field, including civil, criminal, real estate, debt collection, bankruptcy and probate matters as well as municipal meetings. She is a graduate of the Allied School of Court Reporting and the Roger Williams University Supervisor’s Management Institute. She is APRA certified and a member of the Rhode Island Town and City Clerks’ Association.
The city clerk supervises and supports all daily operations of the office, attends and assists in City Council, Probate and Municipal Court proceedings, and processes all public records requests.
As the City Council confirms the mayor’s appointment of city clerk, Solomon voted in favor of Pagliarini last year. Whoever he selects to succeed her will likewise require council confirmation.
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wwkvoter
Just another nutty corrente swipe at the man who ACTUALLY IS our elected mayor, unlike corrente who was destroyed on primary election day.
Thursday, December 20, 2018 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear WwkVoter,
You're right.
I got crushed in the primary by a guy who accepted a ton of Political Action Committee money when, as you know, I refused any PAC checks because they come with WAY TOO MANY strings attached that the taxpayers will have to pay for. Solomon voted for every tax increase this CENTURY and introduced the biggest tax increase allowed by law so he could fund all those PAC promises with taxpayers money. You remember that, right? You got your piece, right?
I also divided my vote with another political outsider Jed Carbone and finally we had pouring rain on primary night that stopped anyone from coming out to vote unless your job depended on it. In a fair election, with 100% of the voters voting, the results would have been different, I'm sure.
I came in second.
Again.
You, on the other hand, weren't even an "also ran". You didn't have the courage to run. Or campaign. Or even tell people your name. You're an anonymous coward of a critic and yet you attack me. Funny. I gave a huge amount of time, money and effort to help the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. You gave absolutely NONE. Why don't you come out of the shadows and identify yourself? Too afraid? Right!
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Friday, December 21, 2018 Report this
Cat2222
Currently tripping over all the excuses that have been tossed out by RC.
Friday, December 21, 2018 Report this
PaulHuff
This is all normal, the mayor should have his own team working for him.
Hopefully Mr. Solomon chooses his new police chief from inside the department. There is plenty of talent there. He definitely needs to get someone he trusts to run the fire department.
Friday, December 21, 2018 Report this
wwkvoter
Corrente was crushed and rejected by the voters (TWICE) because of the way he carries on, lies, didnt pay his tab (taxes), flip flops, has no moral character, and annoys everyone here in the comments. Did I leave anything out?
Saturday, December 22, 2018 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear WwkVoter,
Yeah, you disgustingly pathetic lying coward; you DID leave out one important piece of information:
Your name.
You seem to be annoyed by my comments. I suppose I could recommend that you just not read them but you also seem to hang on my every word, so if anything I say offends your obvious delicate sensitivities in any way, shape, or form...
GOOD!!
Fake news. Fake sources. Fake people. Fake names.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Saturday, December 22, 2018 Report this
wwkvoter
corrente deludes: "I also divided my vote with another political outsider Jed Carbone and finally we had pouring rain on primary night that stopped anyone from coming out to vote unless your job depended on it. In a fair election, with 100% of the voters voting, the results would have been different, I'm sure. I came in second."
NOW lets look at reality. Carbone barely campaigned, didnt place illegal campaign sings OR spam these reader comments ad nauseum, and pretty much received the same votes as corrente. On top of that, corrente got a mere fraction of the WINNER now MAYOR Joe Solomon, whose blowout* vote total came in during the very same rainstorm as corrente's very poor showing.. Solomon is a man who actually DOES pay his taxes and work hard for the city of warwick. AND Carbone doesnt call himself mayor. wow...
Joseph J. Solomon* (DEM) 6776 65.2%
Richard C. Corrente (DEM) 1835 17.6%
Gerald Carbone (DEM) 1579 15.2%
*Blowout - Headline term used by The Beacon to describe Solomon's landslide win.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Report this
CrickeeRaven
WwkVoter, we know by now that when the two-time election reject repeats excuses and half-truths to explain his humiliating loss in the 2018 primary, it only serves to prove your point about how abjectly unfit he is for office, as we and our honest, taxpaying neighbors know because of his willing and repeated pathetic behavior.
Mayor Solomon raised $6,885 in PAC contributions, compared to $182,000 in individual contributions; here's a link to the RI Board of Elections Campaign Finance website that shows Solomon's contributions for 2018: https://bit.ly/2AdyB6v
So, PAC contributions were just 3.78% of Solomon's total campaign income -- hardly what any reasonable person would term "a ton."
Then again, this is the two-time election reject we're talking about. He clearly hopes that people ignore the fact that Solomon's PAC contributions were three times what the two-time election reject spent in total on his failed 2018 campaign. Maybe that's why he falsely says Mayor Solomon received "a ton" of PAC contributions -- because the two-time election reject utterly failed to raise any serious money for his own campaign.
You can also tell that your words are correct [and his are lies] by how he repeats his delusional conspiracy theories about honest, taxpaying voters somehow all being on the take, and voting for actual Mayor Solomon only because it would benefit them financially.
And yet, somewhere in his addled mind, the two-time election reject thinks is helps him to make such wild and false accusations.
It doesn't. As you rightly point out, the biggest obstacle for him was not the rain, not the "political insiders" [who are the same people who contributed to his 2016 campaign, as you will recall], not Mayor Solomon's PAC contributions -- not even Gerald Carbone.
It was his own disgraceful, lying, pathetic behavior.
He tried to deceive voters, and he failed.
With his continued blathering about tax assessments [while ignoring that the assessment on his prior residence -- which he lost to tax sale -- is lower today than it was when he bought it], the two-time election reject proves only that he will not listen to the clear, unequivocal, and direct statement that voters have made to him, twice, that he does not deserve to be elected to any office.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Report this
Cat2222
RC, you seemed to change your mind over the course of 7 days. On December 13th you commented, "This is a decision that is common for all new administrations. In my view, it is neither good nor bad" on the article Ruggiero out as City Solicitor. Your comment on this article is how it negatively affects the city. One would take these comments to believe that you would not be in agreement to changing the team around you had you won the election. Is that what you are saying?
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Report this
CrickeeRaven
Cat, you correctly raise the question of how the two-time election reject can say two different things and have them both be true.
If his past willing and repeated behavior has proven anything, it's that he will have absolutely no reasonable, logical, or coherent explanation for it.
All he has is rehashed talking points and slogans that led directly to two humiliating election losses, and he is still trying to deceive voters about his own failures.
As we've seen before, the two-time election reject will contradict his own words if he thinks it helps him.
But he's wrong. It doesn't.
Just as his false accusations against Mark Carruolo don't help him. They just make the two-time election reject look even more delusional [which is, if you think about it, quite a feat for someone who claims that losing a property to tax sale was actually a "win"].
He also continues to peddle already-disproven claims:
"Warwick is almost a BILLION dollars in debt..."
This is a lie. It was a lie in 2014 when the Republican candidate said it, and it is a lie now.
Anyone claiming this is wrongly counting sewer and water bonds as "debt" when it is being paid separate from the city budget by user fees [not property taxes].
"I gave a huge amount of time, money and effort to help the 80,000 taxpayers..."
This is a lie. His combined $40,000 in futile spending on his first campaign [the vast majority of which he loaned to his campaign while his property was being sold because of delinquent taxes] pales in comparison to the $51,000 that former Mayor Avedisian raised in just individual contributions in 2016, and his pathetic $1,800 in spending this year is far less than the $182,000 in just individual contributions that Mayor Solomon raised.
The two-time election reject's campaign spending was not "huge." He did not put in any "huge amount of time... and effort" except for repeating his lies on this website.
Cat, I wish you luck in trying to get a coherent answer out of the two-time election reject. Given his past behavior, I feel very confident in saying he will not give you one.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Report this
wwkvoter
That whole "I spent $40,000..." mantra doesnt really seem to add up. Maybe that was "reported" but it just seems unlikely. What was it spent on? We know that spamming these comments costs nothing, and the (many illegally placed) campaign signs are not very expensive... 40k is a lot of money (and if it really was spent, to buy such astounding election losses, another story in itself) but I have a hunch that there's more to this than he would like it to appear.
By the way, cat, captain, CR, and a few others have one thing very much in common with the 2 time election loser, I dont check your posts for accuracy. And I almost never bother to check his. For opposite reasons, however...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Report this
CrickeeRaven
WwkVoter, the two-time election reject's campaign finance reports from 2016 show that he did, indeed, waste $40,000 on his first futile campaign.
Here's the link to his expenditures for the 2016 calendar year: https://bit.ly/2Vb6RbG
One-tenth of that, or $4,000, paid Clayton Shackleton for the campaign office -- the same Clay Shackleton, you will recall, who the city recorded as a payer of the taxes on the two-time election reject's former residence.
He also paid the Beacon about $6,000 for advertising, and about $5,300 on signage -- and you'll also see where he wrote campaign checks to the same people he called "political insiders" this year, like Mayor Solomon and City Council President Merolla.
And he "repaid" himself $3,285 from the 2016 campaign.
So, that accounts for about half of his wasted $40,000 in 2016. Feel free to peruse the link to confirmed, objective, publicly available information that shows what else he wasted his money on while losing his former residence to tax sale.
Thursday, December 27, 2018 Report this
wwkvoter
Well that accounts for half of it, (assuming those expenditures actually took place and in the amounts reported) I find that I never know with this guy. That's also an interesting relationship, Clay Shackleton and Corrente. He rents an office from someone who bought his house at tax foreclosure sale and he was evicted from the house? Did I miss something?
At any rate thank God that in this case, the system worked.
Friday, December 28, 2018 Report this
richardcorrente
Dear Cat,
I didn't change my mind. I stand by my comments.
1. These decisions made by Mayor Solomon ARE common for all new administrations.
2. They are also neither good nor bad in my view, as I said.
3. They DO COST the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab a FORTUNE.
4. I wouldn't have made as many changes as Solomon did in order to keep spending in check but that's because I would put the cost-to-the-taxpayers ahead of my own preferences. Remember my "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending" platform?
I hope this clears up any confusion for you Cat.
Happy New Year Cat.
Happy New Year everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
Friday, December 28, 2018 Report this
wwkvoter
corremnte's "cut taxes cut spending" was a 3rd rate barnum and bailey snake oil plan including paying people to buy houses when those houses were moving anyway, "buying out" city worker retirement benefits (at a cost of hundreds of millions we wouldnt have in a million years) while he supported every pay raise proposed or real. what a joke.
thats why corrente is no one's mayor.
Sunday, December 30, 2018 Report this
wwkvoter
I should add that Joe Solomon is experienced at city government and deliberative with every action he takes. He is a real professional. Is he strong enough to tackle tough issues take a stand and put real fixes to things that need it? We'll see. But I had enough confidence to give him my vote. As did everyone I know.
Sunday, December 30, 2018 Report this
CrickeeRaven
Cat, thanks for catching the two-time election reject in another lie. As you rightly point out, no logical or reasonable person would believe that someone can say the mayor's decisions "are neither good nor bad," then a week later say they are actually bad -- yet claim that both statements are true.
As we've seen so often before from the two-time election reject, he is trying to say that two contradictory things are both true, based on nothing except his delusional rants.
We can be 100% certain that, if there is any way the two-time election reject can humiliate himself even further, he will enthusiastically embrace it.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 Report this