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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch leaving
for a spiritual trip to Bosnia - Quincy - Your Town - Boston.com

By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent

Mayor Thomas Koch will travel to the Bosnian village of Medjugorje next week for a religious pilgrimage that will also take him to Rome.

The trip, which will go from the end of this week through March 1, has been planned for a year, officials said, and shouldn’t cause any disruptions in city operations, including the search for a new municipal finance director.

City Council President Kevin Coughlin will have the authority to sign all imminent documents.

The mayor’s trip comes on the heels of the resignation of Finance Director Nicholas Puleo, who has worked for the city in the role for the past year. An announcement seeking a new CFO has already been released.

“The City this week placed an advertisement in the Massachusetts Municipal Association

Beacon, one of the state’s most widely read publications for government job seekers, and Koch said he expects to have the review committee in place by the end of the week,” a press release said.