Clerk of Quarter Sessions slated for extinction
The Nutter administration plans to submit legislation to eliminate the Clerk of Quarter Sessions position in the next two weeks, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Everetty Gillison said Tuesday.
Clerk of Quarter Sessions slated for extinction
Jeff Shields
The Nutter administration plans to submit legislation to eliminate the Clerk of Quarter Sessions position in the next two weeks, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Everetty Gillison said Tuesday.
Current Clerk of Quarter Sessions Vivian T. Miller resigned effective March 31 following intense criticism of both the performance of and the need for the office. On April 1 Mayor Nutter announced that the duties of the office would be transferred to the city's prothonotary, but he did not show his hand at the time about the future of the $117,991-a-year position.
Tuesday afternoon, in budget testimony before Council, Gillison said he hoped to have a bill ready within the next 10 days, would would be in time for the May 6 Council meeting.
"“This is one of these anachronisms that need to go away,” Gillison said.
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So long. Don't come back. Ever.— tonyS- Let's hope this story is true...and how about not spending that $118K?— feudi
- How about not spending the $118k and letting go of all of the employees in the office, since they didn't seem to be contributing anything to the city anyway.— lance71
- Sending more people to the unemployment lines... we wind up paying either way!
- To be replaced with the Clerk of Half Session.— CrashTestCorzine
- Next, bring in the private bail bondsmen to haul in the thugs ..— yawns
- there's a lot more waste and cronyism in that court house than just the quarter sessions!— philafan
Mayors Office should be elminated to! Who needs all that excess salaries. The city would still function. Thinkaboutit! Inky1- Comment removed.
- CrashTestCorzine ... you are correct. I tiwll be replaced with Clerk of Half Session ... at an annual salary of $236,000.— lonestar2000
- I'm with Nil on this one - keep going until ALL useless, redundant, vague positions are eliminated.— JStocker
- Too little, way too late.— Kaiser Sosa
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