School Superintendent Malone should resign say some City Councilors
FALL RIVER City Council leadership is calling for the resignation of school Superintendent Matt Malone after an email was leaked last week from a former School Department administrator containing damning accusations regarding Malone’s behavior toward staff.
“I am taking the position that the leader of the School Department needs to be held to the same standards as any other city employee and any School Department employee and clearly he is not,” said City Council President Cliff Ponte, who has taken to social media with the call for Malone s resignation.
The council president’s assertion that Malone should resign a position he’s held going on four years comes after the email sent to School Committee members by Ann Dargon, the school department’s former assistant superintendent of student services and special education, three weeks after she resigned from the position in August.
Commonwealth Avenue neighbor Gina Hutchins said on Thursday s Zoom meeting that she has to wait 15 minutes sometimes to drive in and out of the neighborhood.
On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, the city has been sending police details to direct traffic to and from the dispensary.
Fall River Police Chief Jeffrey Cardoza said Friday that the traffic details will continue, but he’ll be looking to other community police department to take on some of the details.
Finance Director Mary Sahady said after the meeting that the details will be paid for through the impact fee the city receives from the pot business about $100,000 a month.