Mayor Kate Wdowiasz

Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz returned to Common Council on Monday. She will still hold her own city government meetings, however.

The mayor had skipped several city council meetings since announcing in May that she would no longer attend. “Council has not taken any meaningful actions at their meetings and have been failing the residents with their lack of decisiveness,” she told the OBSERVER a day after her announcement.

Wdowiasz was back Monday, without a comment or explanation.

The mayor stated she will convene a meeting of city department heads at 2 p.m. July 16 in the Stearns Building’s ground floor conference room. It will be her second department head meeting since her announcement about council meeting attendance.

“We will be discussing various topics that each department is having with staffing. I know staffing levels are down for police, fire, clerk’s office, building and zoning,” Wdowiasz said.

Wdowiasz sought to explain her attendance at a nuclear power information session put together by state Sen. George Borrello at SUNY Fredonia last week.

“It was held by invitation from Senator Borrello,” she said. “It was an informational session similar to the one that we put on last July regarding the safety of nuclear power and new future use for it. I want the public to know that that was not any type of planning session — it was merely an invitation information session.”

Wdowiasz added, “I had the opportunity to meet the project manager from Genover, who just purchased the NRG plant. I had a pleasant conversation with them about their hopes for what they would like to do with the plant in the future.”