City Council President Tom McCarthy Saturday night was inducted into the Notre Dame High School Alumni Hall of Fame recognizing “individuals who have through their performance, conduct, and achievement, brought credit and honor to themselves and the Notre Dame community.”
Entries Categorized as 'City Budget'
Why State Senate Candidate Ricky DeJesus’ Tax Delinquency Swelled
February 23rd, 2015 · 17 Comments · City Budget, City Politics, News and Events, State Politics
State Senate candidate Ricky DeJesus owes the city roughly $140,000 in personal property taxes. He also owed a whole bunch more in real estate taxes sold off in tax lien sales. In this story CT Post reporter Brian Lockhart explains why the city did not go after him for collection of back personal property taxes. […]
Have You Read The Audit?
February 19th, 2015 · 5 Comments · City Budget, City Council, News and Events
Unless you’re passionate about numbers, statistics, line items, surpluses, deficits and more, analyzing a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report can cause eyes to glaze over quickly. Fire up the espresso machine! City fiscal watchdog John Marshall Lee has arguably spent more time than anyone else on the planet reviewing Bridgeport government financials as a civilian taxpayer. […]
Tags: Anne Kelly-Lenz·CT Post·Fleeta Hudson·John Marshall Lee·Tom McCarthy
You Happy About Malloy’s Budget Proposal?
February 18th, 2015 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, Education
Municipal budgets are often at the mercy of state spending. Governor Dan Malloy’s budget proposal will certainly engage education advocates upset about flat funding of traditional education while increasing support to charter schools that operate independently from traditional school districts. Malloy’s budget is now in the hands of the state legislature.
Tags: Bill Finch·Dan Malloy
Foster Hits Finch On Hypocrisy
January 28th, 2015 · 60 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Education
In what could be a prelude to another run for mayor this year, 2011 Democratic mayoral candidate Mary-Jane Foster cites “examples of the cultural DNA of political corruption that has wholly permeated and consumed the operations of this administration.” From Foster: Mayor Bill Finch needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror before […]
A New Year, A New Set Of Questions For City Council
January 7th, 2015 · 8 Comments · City Budget, City Council, News and Events
City fiscal observer John Marshall Lee, in his latest address to the City Council Monday night, offers a series of questions concerning the expenditure of taxpayer dollars. From Lee: A CT Post reporter recently indicated that an important issue facing you this evening will be about the renaming of streets, the need for such coming […]
Tags: CT Post·John Marshall Lee
How Will Finch And City Council Handle Election-Year Budget?
March 2nd, 2015 · 26 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council
In about four weeks Mayor Bill Finch will submit his proposed budget to the City Council for the spending year starting July 1 as he seeks a third four-year term with the specter of city revaluation of taxable property kicking in next year. Finch did not raise taxes in 2011, his last election-year budget. This […]
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Tags: Bill Finch·Dan Malloy