Times-GazetteWarren eastbayri.com WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 VOL. 148, NO. 22 $1.00 John Kemp goes for the gold Town hands out pink slips to full, part timers Positions were cut or cut back at Financial Town Meeting last month BY TED HAYES
[email protected] The Town of Warren has sent out a handful of pink slips to employees who are either losing their jobs, or having their hours and benefits cut back, following a vote of the public at the Financial Town Meeting earlier this month. Recently, termination notices were sent out to four part time employees whose jobs will be eliminated at the beginning of the 2014-15 fiscal year on July 1. And on Wednesday, Warren Town Planner Caroline Wells received notice that her job will be cut to a part time position, with no bene- fits, starting on July 1. It is not clear whether Warren Building Official William Nash received a PHOTOS BY RICHARD W. DIONNE JR. letter; he submitted his resigna- tion letter a week before the Town hall maintenance manager Bruce Hutchison (right) holds up the arm of a part time custodian John Kemp, a well-known face at Warren Financial Town Meeting, telling Town Hall. He did well at the Rhode Island Special Olympics Summer Games held this past weekend at URI. town officials he will work until Warren resident wins Town Hall since 2009. Though today, June 4 after accepting a double gold at Special this is his first year with the new job with the International Olympics games Baysiders, he has competed in Code Council.