DeNapoli 'Finally Here' at Town Council Meeting
Braintree Town Councilor Ronald DeNapoli has been absent from the council since November 2012.
For the first time in five months, District 5 Town Councilor Ronald DeNapoli sat behind the long table in Town Hall's Cahill Auditorium and announced his presence. "Finally here," DeNapoli said during roll call at the start of Tuesday night's meeting. DeNapoli's attendance was his first since Nov. 20, 2012. Since his re-election in fall 2011, DeNapoli has missed 51 percent of council meetings, with most of those absences coming since last July. The councilor blamed the long absence on illness in an email to Town Council President Charles Kokoros last month, and on Tuesday he said it was a heart problem, declining to provide more detail. "I'm doing a lot better," DeNapoli said. "I feel good and hopefully things will keep working well." His …
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8:36 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
does he get paid whether he shows up or not? If the council does fine without him what is he there for? more ›