Financial watchdog John Marshal Lee reports on the Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department held Saturday, and questions the absence of support for education. SHOW ME THE MONEY???!!! This afternoon a “Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department” walked a few blocks from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church at 100 Park Ave. […]
Entries Categorized as 'City Budget'
Show Me The Money???!!!
September 25th, 2016 · 22 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Tags: Angel DePara·Joe Ganim·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·John Olson·M. Evette Brantley·Tom McCarthy
Lee To Council: Use The Unanticipated State Money To Reinstate The Laid-off Kindergarten Paraprofessionals
September 22nd, 2016 · 40 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education
Tuesday night citizen fiscal watchdog John Marshall Lee asked the City Council to allocate the recent unanticipated and therefore not yet budgeted State Municipal Revenue Sharing to the BOE to reinstate the laid-off paraprofessionals. “… think instead of a five-year-old girl or boy standing here in their third week of school in Bridgeport without the […]
An Ode To Joe, Promises From The Campaign Trail
September 21st, 2016 · 6 Comments · City Budget, City Politics
Citizen budget watchdog John Marshall Lee keeps score of Joe Ganim’s promises in this ode to Joe. There are many in Bridgeport who today insist Mayor “Trust-me Joe” oft said things, now subsequently missed. Not pointing to a Billion-plus lost from the taxable Grand List But rather, campaign promises made. Joe just couldn’t resist.
Tags: Joe Ganim·John Marshall Lee
State Withholds Funds Until City Hires Permanent Health Director
September 6th, 2016 · 14 Comments · City Budget, News and Events
A spokesperson for the State Department of Health says “There are statutory requirements for appointing a permanent health director that have not been met in this case. Until they are, we will be withholding a portion of state grant funds from the city.” The city has formed a search committee that includes Jack McCarthy who worked […]
Tags: Bill Finch·Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Danny Roach·Joe Ganim
Will Large Crowds Continue At City Council Meetings?
September 5th, 2016 · 50 Comments · City Budget, City Council, News and Events
The last two full monthly meetings of the City Council were packed courtesy of noisy homeowners, predominantly from Black Rock, West Side and North End, cranky about their July 1 tax bills. Affiliates of Citizens Working For A Better Bridgeport helped drive the turnout. They’re trying to keep up the heat asserting in a Facebook post “No, Mayor […]
Tags: Joe Ganim·John Marshall Lee
Watchdogs & Whistleblowers Welcome
August 23rd, 2016 · 13 Comments · City Budget, News and Events
It’s time to bark in the burg. Led by citizen financial watchdog John Marshall Lee, a forum for discussion, ideas and “barking points” has been launched at Watchdogs Bridgeport, a showcase for city issues. Lee says all fiscal hounds are welcome.
Tags: John Marshall Lee
Truckin’! Bad Vibes For Hippie Fest, City Sues For $500K Security Costs
August 18th, 2016 · 33 Comments · City Budget, News and Events
The Gathering of the Vibes festival at Seaside Park saluting the music of the Grateful Dead originated under Joe Ganim’s first mayoralty and may very well end up, well, Truckin’. Hey, everyone must experience a Touch Of Gray, right? The city is suing organizers for truckin’ from Bridgeport owing serious Sugar Magnolia in police security […]
Tags: Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Gathering of the Vibes·Joe Ganim·Ken Hays·Seaside Park
Worse In Hartford? Connecticut’s Bleeding Cities–Stafstrom: It Doesn’t Matter Who Is Worse Off … State Has Ignored Cities
August 29th, 2016 · 59 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, News and Events, State Politics
The mil rate in Bridgeport is 54. In Hartford it’s 74–ouch–by far the highest in the state. Mayor Joe Ganim’s spending plan approved by the City Council calls for $4 million in union concessions to balance the budget, some of which he has achieved. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin’s budget anticipates $15.5 million in municipal givebacks. […]
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Tags: Beardsley Park·Beardsley Zoo·Dick Blumenthal·Hartford Courant·Housatonic Community College·Joe Ganim·Lowell Weicker·Mary Moran·Steven Stafstrom·Tom Bucci