Waterbury Board of Aldermen Third Special Department Heads Meeting - May 14, 2026

Board of Aldermen (City of Waterbury) · May 16, 2026

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Human Resources budget Q&A

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HR Director Tara Shaw (and Assistant Director Sherry Lam) described how the department uses Lawson for requisitions and encumbrance reporting alongside manual spreadsheets; they said requisitions are entered in Lawson, a cloud-based applicant-tracking portal will go live June 1, and the department is requesting an additional HR generalist and more training funds. Shaw said the HR office has one vacancy as of the meeting and that the department covers roughly 2,300 civil-service/general-government employees (about 1,319 of them Waterbury residents). Key numbers: 16 grievances reached director‑‑

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Special meeting of the Waterbury Board of Aldermen on 2026-05-14: department-head budget reviews covered human resources, city planning, registrars, the senior center, library and the city clerk; key items included HR staffing and training needs, OpenGov rollout for planning, senior-shuttle funding questions, library security and roof funding, and several requests for additional temporary staff.

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