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Entries Categorized as 'City Budget'

The State Of The Unions

September 1st, 2010 · 31 Comments · City Budget

Anyone read CT Post reporter Keila Torres’ piece on recent city hires? A snapshot:
More than 100 jobs were added to the municipal and Board of Education payrolls from January 2009 to June 2010, the same time period during which city unions were warned of massive layoffs if they did not grant concessions to help balance [...]

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Mayor: “We Want To Stop The Violence, But Our Police Department Cannot Do It Alone”

August 25th, 2010 · 8 Comments · City Budget, Cops, Events

Crime is a pain in the ass to fight when it takes on a life of its own. It impacts neighborhood stability, business retention, business recruitment, and much more. And it’s a bigger pain in the butt when a chief executive is handcuffed by a budget deficit. Mayor Bill Finch doesn’t have the luxury to remain [...]

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Deficit Clock Ticks, Plus: When Foes Become Friends

August 24th, 2010 · 15 Comments · City Budget, City Politics, State Politics

What’s new on the municipal union layoff/concession front? Still a holding pattern nearly two months into the budget year.
City officials thought there was some progress brewing with concessions at hand as the city works to close an $8 million budget gap. Talks broke down and unions seem to be hanging tough. They feel they’ve given [...]

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Do Results Match Finch’s Rhetoric

August 23rd, 2010 · 36 Comments · City Budget, City Politics, Civil Service, Development, Library, Political Analysis

“Together we are making Bridgeport the cleanest, greenest, safest most affordable city, with schools and neighborhoods that improve each year” … Mayor Bill Finch
Like it or not everything Mayor Bill Finch does within the next year will be measured against the declaration above that he includes on just about every news release, statement, correspondence, etc.
Well, [...]

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Crime, A Gigantic Toothache

August 17th, 2010 · 23 Comments · City Budget, City Politics, Cops, Development, Political Analysis

It’s been a rough summer for Mayor Bill Finch.
Damn tornado rips through the downtown, city cops arrest his son Pete for hauling a wind-blown street sign into a local bar, charges fortunately dropped by a state prosecutor.
Finch’s budget is bleeding badly and he needs millions in union concessions to close the gap. One department he [...]

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The Budget’s Royal Flush?

August 16th, 2010 · 11 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Development

Mayors, for the most part, live and die by budgets. If you think the city budget is bleeding red this year wait until next year when Mayor Bill Finch’s election is on the line. So city bean counters are searching for new revenue sources.
Yeah baby, whoever thought poop could be a major revenue source. It can. That’s [...]

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A Radio Show For Joe? Plus: Zoo and Fish Tix

July 26th, 2010 · 18 Comments · City Budget, Media, State Politics

A tough few days for the Park City. Today was the day pink slips were poised for a few dozen municipal employees to begin closing an $8 million city budget gap. But in the aftermath of a Fire Department tragedy priorities may be elsewhere.
Just two weeks until Tsunami Tuesday when serial primary voters will fill in [...]

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